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Lot #    22564
Auction End Date    1/20/2009 10:29:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shemen Sason
Title (Hebrew)    שמן ששון חלק ג
Author    [Kabbalah] R. Shemen Sason ibn Moses
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Zukerman
Publication Date    1885
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 13, 2-140 ff. folio 324:193 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    First edition of this comprehensive commentary on the Ez Hayyim of R. Hayyim ben Joseph Vital by R. Shemen Sason ibn Moses. This volume, number three in the complete work, is devoted to the R. Hayyim Vital’s Sha’ar ha-Kavvanot. That work addresses mystical customs and meditations on prayers. R. Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (1542–1620) was born in Safed and studied in yeshivot there, especially under R. Moses Alshekh, his teacher in exoteric subjects. In 1564 he began to study Kabbalah, at first according to the system R. Moses Cordovero, and, after R. Isaac Luria’s (Ari) arrival in Safed, under the latter, becoming the Ari’s principal disciple. After the Ari’s death, R. Vital began to arrange the Ari’s teachings in written form, elaborating on them according to his own understanding, becoming the primary transmitter of the Ari’s teachings. R. Vital later moved to Jerusalem, serving as rabbi and head of a yeshivah from late 1577 to late 1585, where he wrote the last version of his presentation of the Lurianic system. In 1586 he returned to Safed, remaining there until 1592. In 1590 R. Vital was “ordained” as rabbi by his teacher R. Moses Alshekh, and then returned to Jerusalem in 1593 remaining several years, occasionally returning to Safed. His last move was to Damascus where he died. R. Vital was a prolific writer, his works encompassing Talmud, response, homilies, and even astronomy. R. Vital assembled his major writings into two vast works Ez ha-Hayyim and Ez ha-Da’at. The former is the inclusive name for all those writings in which he elaborated on the teaching of R. Isaac Luria. These works went through several versions and adaptations, for R. Vital began to arrange what he had heard from R. Luria immediately after his death, remained absorbed in this task for more than 20 years.
          
Paragraph 2    חלק ג: על ספר... ש[ער] הכונות ופע"ח (פרי עץ חיים) וס' עולת תמיד לרבינו... מוהרח"ו. חש"מ, תרמ"ה. [1], ב-קם; יב, [1] דף. #2. ספירת-דפים משובשת. יב, [1] דף נכרכו בראש הספר. בראשי הדפים ה-יב, [1]: "מראה עינים ופירוש על פרי עץ חיים וש[ער] התפלה... ופי' על ס' עולת תמיד". לפי צורת האותיות נראה שהשער והדפים לג-קם; יב,[1], נדפסו בדפוס שמואל צוקרמן ושותפיו בשנת תרמ"ה, ואילו הדפים הראשונים (ב-לב) נדפסו כעשר שנים קודם לכן, חלקם בדפוס ניסן ב"ק (דפים ב-כה) ומקצתם בדפוס אליהו ומשה חי ששון (דפים כז-לב). עיין הלוי, שם, מס' 532.
          
Reference
Description		    BE shin 1817; CD-EPI 0171868
        
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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