Sefer Zichron Torath Moshe.Important alphabetical subject index of the Talmud including citations to Moreh Nevuchim, Akeidah, Ikkarim, Derech Emunah, Neveh Shalom, Or Hashem, and Derashoth ha-Ra”N. A work that lends significance to the history of scholarship in the 16th century, indicating those works considered at the time to be worthy of study.
Prague 1623. At the press of Abraham b. Shimon (Heide).
ff. 128, 45. 29 Cm.
Signature on the title page of the Holy Mekubal the Gaon Rabbi David son of R. Nathan Grunhut. Author of Migdal David.
Rabbi David Grunhut (d. 1723), a native of Frankfurt a/Main, was celebrated as a Talmudist, grammarian and Kabbalist. He served as Rabbi of several German communities, including Wiesbaden and Heimerdingen. See M. Horovitz, Frankfurter Rabbinen (1972) pp. 92-3; N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar HaRabanim 4746.
Maran the Chid”a writes about him that he was “The smartest in wisdom, study, nature…”
In 1684 he published in Frankfurt the Sefer HaGilgulim, Kabbalistic teachings of the Ari, by Rabbi Chaim Vital. Based on the writings of Rabbi Yaakov Tzemach, and was edited by Rabbi Meir Poppers. During a conference of rabbis of Frankfurt in 1682, a ruling was issued prohibiting the publisher Rabbi David Greenhut to distribute Sefer HaGilgulim "due to the hazard", but the publisher did not heed the warning and published the Sefer in 1684. In his foreword, "The printer’s foreword" on the verso of the title page, the publisher condemns the decision to forbid the printing of the Sefer. He supports his claim with various Kabbalah books which were previously printed in Frankfurt with the approbation of prominent Frankfurt rabbis.
Many other antique signatures & inscriptions. Amongst them R. Zeligman Shamesh of Frankfurt, Rabbi Aaron Fulda of Frankfurt.
Overall in Very Good condition, title & first pages reinforced with loss of 2 characters to the title page, added paper margins to page 2 with additions in a antique hand, age stains.
Beautiful original binding, damage to spine, original brass clasps.
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