1. Sefer Shut Tzemach Tzedek, by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Krochmal.
Amsterdam, 1675. First edition. Printed by David Castro Tartas.
2. Sefer Pi Nab”a.
Amsterdam, 1688. Only edition. Printed by David de Castro Tartas.
3. Sefer Yalkut Reubeni, articles and midrashim on the Torah, collected from Kabbalistic works, the Zohar, and ancient texts.
Amsterdam, 1700. Second edition. Printed by Emanuel Athias.
Ownership inscription from 1728, Shlomo Piller. Sara… (possibly connected to the tzaddik Rabbi Shlomo Chasid of Krakow).
Antique signature: Leib Guggenheim.
Signature and ownership stamp: Mendel Meir Fertig from Podgorze.
4. Sefer Yesod on Kabbalah: Or Yisrael. Frankfurt, 1702. Only edition!
Teaches the secret of the order of emanation, explanations of the Zohar and the writings of the Ari, and Talmudic sayings according to Kabbalah. Also includes the laws of the Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim) according to Kabbalah. Written by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yisrael Yafeh, head of the Beit Din of Shklov.
The sefer was esteemed by great Kabbalists of later generations. Some claimed that the work contained hints of Sabbateanism, but the author strongly denied this in his will, printed at the beginning of his sefer Tiferet Yisrael (Frankfurt, 1774), stating that these ideas were inserted by others and not his own. Leading Kabbalists and righteous figures endorsed the work, including the rabbis Rebbi Chaim of Tzanz, Rabbi Aryeh Leib Epstein (author of Pri Etz Hadar), and Rabbi Raphael Hakohen of Hamburg, who praised the author as a prominent figure in Torah, piety, and asceticism.
The title page is fully illustrated, a highly impressive work of art.
Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod, No. 366.
Antique signature: Meir …. Epstein.
5. Sefer Shema Shlomo by Rabbi Shlomo Algazi from Izmir – Amsterdam, 1710.
Sermons on the Torah and holidays delivered in Izmir by the sage Rabbi Shlomo Algazi. Includes separate innovations (linguistic notes).
Amsterdam, 1710. Printed by Moshe Dias.
Stamps and ownership inscription from 1879 by Rabbi David HaCohen Bloshtein of Vladoya.
6. Sefer Chavatzelet HaSharon by the Holy Alshich. Wandsbek, 1727. There are typographical differences between copies printed in this edition, both in the title page and within the sefer.
Only fragments of Abarbanel’s commentary were printed. Regarding this, Rabbi Moshe Hagiz writes on page 45b, “Because when… Rabbi Avraham, who brought the sefer to print, heard that the sefer [Chavatzelet HaSharon] was printed recently [in 1726] in the Holy Community of Amsterdam, he abandoned his intention to complete the work.”
This indicates that at the start of printing, the printer was unaware of the Amsterdam edition, and thus the title page states "Third printing" (after the [Constantinople] edition of 1563; Venice edition of 1592). Ben-Menachem saw a copy where the title page stated "Fourth printing." See: N. Ben-Menachem, In the Gates of Books, Kiryat Sefer, 31, 1956, pp. 256-257.
7. Sefer Chidushei Halachot by the Maharsha. Altona, 1734.
8. Sefet Shut of Rabbi Shlomo Luria (Marashal). Fürth, 1768. Printed by Chaim ben Tzvi Hirsch.
9. Sefer Pnei Yehoshua third part, Fürth, 1779. On the Tractates Bava Kamma and Bava Metzia, by Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua Falk.
10. Sefer Mincha Ketana, commentary on the three haftarot read during the period between the Seventeenth of Tammuz and Tisha B’Av and on Psalms chapter 79, by the preacher Rabbi Chaim ben Yissachar Ber [Melamed].
Amsterdam, 1789. First edition. Printed by the widow and orphans of Yaakov Proops Katz.
Antique ownership inscription: Belongs to the esteemed Rabbi, Sh.Z. son of Rabbi Yaakov…
11. Sefer Mateh Yissachar, innovations and sermons, both revealed and esoteric, that were delivered on Sabbaths before the holidays by Rabbi Yissachar Berman Segal, rabbi of Schwabach, Ansbach, and Schneidermuhl, and later the rabbi of the holy community of Fürth.
Only edition, Fürth, 1792
With approbations by the Nodah B’Yehuda, and the Dayanim of Prague, the sages Rabbi Michael ben Zenvil Bechorach, Rabbi Yaakov Ginzburg, and Rabbi Elazar Flekles. Also by Rabbi Meshulam Zalman Cohen, rabbi of Fürth.
12. Sefer Yesod, Ketubah, by Rabbi Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz, rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, author of Hafla’ah, who was a student of the Maggid of Mezritch and the teacher of the Chatam Sofer. Published by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Spitz.
First edition printed during the author’s lifetime, Offenbach, 1801
At the beginning of the sefer, the auhthor added an introduction titled Peticha Ze’ira and at the end, innovations by his son Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch and his son Rabbi Meir Yaakov, who passed away during his lifetime.
Stefansky, Chassidut, No. 182.
At the side margin of the title page, there is a later handwritten note:
"It should be known that this had on the title page the author’s own holy handwriting, of the Haflah himself, inscribed for one of his close associates when he sent the sefer."
"It should be known that this had on the title page the author’s own holy handwriting, of the Haflah himself, inscribed for one of his close associates when he sent the sefer."
As of now, the author’s handwriting has not been found on the title page.
Antique marginal notation.
13. Sefer Mikdash Melech, commentary on the Zohar by Rabbi Shalom Buzaglo, fourth and fifth parts on the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. Sudilkov, 1821.
In the first part , which is not included in this copy, there is a remarkable endorsement from the holy Kedushat Levi of Berdichev.
Antique ownership inscription: Yosef HaLevi from … Lomaz?
Signature of Rabbi Mordechai Friedman of Mezhritch.
Overall Good condition, Complete copies.
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