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Lot #    17898
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:20:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sheresh Yishai
Title (Hebrew)    שרש ישי
Author    [Noted Copy] R. Solomon b. Moses Alkebetz ha-Levi
City    Constantinople
Publisher    Solomon ibn Ushki
Publication Date    1561
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 96 ff, quarto, 190:133 mm., nice margins, old hands on title and several ff. A good copy bound in later boards, rubbed.
          
Paragraph 1    The copy of Dr. Ephraim (Angelo Salvador) Luzzatto (1729-92) Italian and English physician and poet. Inscribed on title and f. 60v.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary to Ruth by R. Solomon b. Moses Alkebetz ha-Levi, kabbalist and mystical poet. He is the composer of the Sabbath hymn "Lehah Dodi" ("Come, my beloved"). He was in contact with R. Joseph Caro, who greatly appreciated his knowledge of Kabbalah. R. Alkabez states that while they were both studying the Torah on the night of Shavu'ot, the maggid appeared to R. Caro. They therefore established the custom of staying awake on the night of Shavu'ot to study the Torah. The custom, which became widespread, is known as "Tikkun Leil Shavu'ot." R. Alkabez probably arrived in Safed in 1535. Very little is known of his life there. His signature on rulings and documents is rarer than that of any other important Safed scholar. It seems that he was head of the Meron yeshiva and it is almost certain that he was an officiating rabbi in Safed. A prolific author, he wrote some works on the Bible, and others of a kabbalistic nature. Many of his manuscripts were stolen when he died. It is not clear whether this was done during persecutions, or by other authors. None of his purely kabbalistic works was printed or preserved in manuscript. R. Alkabez, in order to understand the secrets of the Zohar, used to go out with his students to pray and meditate on the graves of zaddikim. This practice was called gerushin ("banishment"). During these gerushin-peregrinations, they concentrated on rousing their contemplative powers spontaneously and without any previous preparation. R. Alkabez had a powerful gift for stimulating spiritual revivals and mystical life.
          
Paragraph 2    פירוש על מגלת רות [עם הפנים] חברו... ר' שלמה הלוי בן אלקבץ נר"ו... דפוס שלמה ן' אושקי על ידי אברהם בכמר שמואל כהן זצל מסנגווני אשכנזי בשנת ה'ש'ג'י'ח' ממרום קדשו

דף צא-צה: מפתח לפסוקי התנ"ך ומאמרי חז"ל המפורשים בספר, ערוך על-ידי ר' משה, בן המחבר, עם הקדמה. דף צו, א: דברי שבח על הספר, מאת ר' אברהם ן' שאנג'י ובסופם שיר הפותח: שבחות ותהלת לעלת העלות. אוצר השירה והפיוט, ג, עמ' 414, מס' 247. דף צו, ב: שיר שבח לספר, מאת ר' שמואל שולם. פותח: אם יהיו כל האגמים קולמוסים. שם, א, עמ' 245, מס' 5332.

          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Constantinople 221; Yaari, Constantinople 163; CD-EPI 0304498
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica