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Lot #
19885
Auction End Date
2/19/2008 10:21:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Etz Chaim, Chapter 20
Title (Hebrew)
עץ חיים, שער עשרים
Author
[Ms. - Kabbalah] R. Hayyim Vital
City
[Germany]
Publication Date
17th cent.
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
[4] p., 332:205 mm., light browning, some ink fading, edges frayed, split on crease, expertly restored.
Paragraph 1
Written a hundred plus years before the first printing of this work. Unknown textual variances. Fragment contains chapters 1, 2, 8, 9 only.
Detailed
Description
Written in a 16th century Ashkenazic neat script by an unknown scribe, ink on paper, approximately 44 lines per page. Was written soon after the demise of the Author, R. Chaim Vital (1542–1620), one of the greatest kabbalists. Vital was born in Erez Israel, apparently in Safed. His father, Joseph Vital Calabrese, whose name indicates his origin from Calabria, South Italy, was a well known scribe in Safed (see responsa of Menahem Azariah da Fano, no. 38). His son is also called Chaim Calabrese in several kabbalistic works. He studied in yeshivot in Safed, especially under R. Moses Alshekh, his teacher in exoteric subjects. In 1564 he began to study Kabbalah, at first according to the system of R. Moses Cordovero, although Vital did not call Cordovero his teacher. After R. Isaac Luria's (Ari z'l) arrival in Safed, Vital became his principal disciple, studying under him for nearly two years until Luria's death in the summer of 1572. Later he began to arrange Luria's teachings in written form and to elaborate on them according to his own understanding of them. This lot represents Gate 20 of R. Chaim Vital's work Etz Chaim.
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Kabbalah:
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Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
