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First edition. 86 pp., 200:143 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, small loss to f. 85 affecting few words. A good copy bound in modern half leather and marbled paper over boards, corners tipped in, rubbed. |
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A summary of R. Moses Cordovero's Pardes Rimmonim, under the title of Asis Rimmonim by R. Samuel Gallico, rabbi and kabbalist. The Italian Gallico (or Gallichi) family is of French origin and produced many rabbinical scholars of note. The family first lived in Rome where it was known from the 14th century. In 1323, a "Gallichi" (which may however imply "French") synagogue is mentioned there. Later the Gallico family spread to other Italian towns.
Pardes Rimmonim offers an elucidation of all the tenets of the Kabbalah, such as the doctrines of the sefirot, emanation, the divine names, the import and significance of the alphabet, etc. The doctrine of R. Cordovero is a summary and a development of the different trends in Kabbalah up to his time, and his whole work is a major attempt to synthesize and to construct a speculative kabbalistic system. This is done especially in his theology, which is based on the Zohar, and in particular on Tikkunei Zohar and Ra'aya Meheimna. Since R. Cordovero considered these texts to be by one and the same author, he felt constrained to harmonize their different and at times even opposing conceptions. |
