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Lot #    27604
Auction End Date    7/27/2010 2:28:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kisse Melekh
Title (Hebrew)    כסא מלך
Author    [Kabbalah - First Ed.] R. Sholom Buzaglo
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    ליב בן משה זוסמנש
Publication Date    1769
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [4], 128 f., 8°, 200:124 mm., light age and damp staining, old hand on final endpaper. A very good copy bound in modern cloth over boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary on the Zohar by the Rabbi of Marakesh, R. Shalom Buzaglo. He was born in Marrakesh. Among his teachers in Kabbalah were R. Abraham b. Israel Azulai, one of the rabbis of Marrakesh (d. 1741), R. Jacob Pinto, and R. Isaiah ha-Kohen. In his native land Buzaglo was persecuted by the sultan and was subjected to torture by fire. As a result of this experience he signed himself, "brand plucked out of the fire" (Zech. 3:2). In about 1745 he left Morocco and settled in London and there wrote his books on esoteric and exoteric matters. His major work was his commentary on the Zohar. Buzaglo's commentaries on the Zohar were first published in 1750–1755 in Amsterdam and London. These are Mikdash Melekh, a commentary on the whole Zohar, book by book, in four volumes (to which he also added R. Moses Zacuto's commentary from a manuscript); Hadrat Melekh, on difficult passages in the Zohar; Penei Melekh, Hod Melekh, and Kevod Melekh, all on the Idras in the Zohar and on Sifra di-Zeni'uta Kisse Melekh on Tikkunei ha-Zohar. Mikdash Melekh was the first systematic commentary on the whole Zohar to be published. It was very popular and was printed several times. Subsequently the text of the Zohar together with Buzaglo's commentaries were printed in Leghorn (1858) and in Zolkiew (1862). These were based mainly on Lurianic Kabbalah, including all the scattered work of Isaac Luria's disciples, which Buzaglo usually copied word for word, occasionally quoting other opinions. Although this book does not convey the literal meaning of the Zohar, it has had a continuing value for scholars. In several books he added his own novellae on the Talmud. He spent his last years in London where he seems to have served for a time as a member of an Ashkenazi bet din. A number of his pamphlets referring to an halakhic dispute which broke out in London in 1774 were also published. He died in London. Several of his manuscripts were preserved in the bet ha-midrash of the Great Synagogue in London.
          
Paragraph 2    פירוש על תיקוני הרשב"י [תיקוני הזוהר] ... מגוית האר"י רודה דובשו ... ניכרים הדברים. שמפה קדוש נאמרים ... רבינו הגדול הרא"י ... לתלמידיו הרבנים ... הרב המחבר ... ר' שלום בוזאגלו נר"ו יאיר לעד ...שנת שמור תם ורא'ה' י'ש'ר' כי' א[ח]רית לא'יש שלו'ם ליצירה

ההשמטות לס' כסא מלך נדפסו בסוף ספרו הדרת מלך, חלק [ב], לונדן תק"ל-תקל"ג. הסכמות: ר' שאול [לעווענשטאם], אמשטרדם, יא אלול תקכ"ח; ר' ישראל משולם זלמן ב"ר יעב"ץ החונה תוך אמוני עם סגולה בק"ק המבורגר ומצ"פ [ומצודתו פרושה] בק"ק לונדון והמדינה, כב אדר-ב תקכ"ט; ר' יששכר אבועלאפייא, שלוח טבריה, לונדן, כב שבט תקכ"ט.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0115775; EJ
        
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Kabbalah:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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