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Bidding Information
Lot #    20840
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 10:19:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shevet Mussar
Title (Hebrew)    שבט מוסר
Author    [Kabbalah] R. Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itamari
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    Hertz Levi Rofeh
Publication Date    1732
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 199, [2] ff., 208:166 mm., usual light age staining, wide margins, old hands. A very good copy bound in contemporary full vellum over boards, rubbed and staring. Rare - as a popular Yiddish book was heavily used with few surviving copies.
          
Detailed
Description		    Kabbalistic moral and ethical text oft reprinted and translated in many languages. R. Elijah b. Abraham Solomon ha-Kohen ha-Itamari (b. 1729) was born in Smyrna, where he was educated and became a homiletic preacher. His opposition to Shabbetai Zevi and his associated earned him much grief at home. He is best remembered for his ethical work Shevet Mussar, which has seen numerous edition (to this date) and been translated into many languages.
          
Paragraph 2    ...וגם עשינו פירוש על כמה מלות חמורות ועניינים קשי ההבנה ... דס [חשוב] אונ' ווערדיג [ספר] האבין מיר אין טייטש טון שטעלין ... הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י ... ר' אלעזר[!] זוסמן בן ... יצחק רודלסום ז"ל והאלוף ... ר' יעקב בן ... שלמה ז"ל ... שנת זרע קדש מצ'ב'ת'ה

המקור העברי ותרגום אשכנזית-יהודית, זה למטה מזה. הסכמות רבני אמשטרדם: ר' יוסף ב"ר שמעון עקיבה בער ור' משה פרנקפורט, כג טבת תצ"ב; ר' דוד ישראל עטיאס ור' יצחק חיים ן' דנא די בריטון, טו תמוז תצ"א.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0110269
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Holland:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
Other:    Ethics
  
Characteristic
Bindings:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica