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Bidding Information
Lot #    5574
Auction End Date    9/16/2003 1:38:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Chok Le'Yisroel
Title (Hebrew)    חק לישראל
Author    [Kabbalah] R. Hayyim b Joseph Vital
City    Kopyst
Publisher    Judah & Israel Jaffa
Publication Date    1816
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    5 volumes, [4], 116, [2]; [4], 131, [1]; [4], 124; [4], 126; [4], 138 ff., 8 vo., 190:106 mm., light dampstaining, stamps in Persian letters on titles and many f., light worming in all 5 volumes occasionally affecting single letters. A good copy of a rare set bound in uniform contemporary full leather, rubbed on extremities, few wormholes. Partial blue paper.
          
Detailed
Description		    The Kabbalistic division of the bible and other holy works into daily learning portions.

The Jaffa press was operated by a Chabad disciple who is responsible for many of the Chabad founder's, R. Schneur Zalman of Liady, first editions.

          
Paragraph 2    הסכמה (מעבר לשער של כל חלק): ר' אהרן ב"ר יקותיאל, מ"ץ דק"ק שקלאב; ר' משה ב"ר ישראל, מ"ץ דק"ק קאפוסט; ר' יעקב ב"ר יצחק אייזיק ליפשיץ, הרב דק"ק אורשי; ר' נתן נטע ב"ר שמואל ור' נחמן ב"ר משה ליפשיץ, יב מרחשון תקע"ו.
          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Kopyst 54 (no pagination); CD-EPI 0133314
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Hasidic:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Bindings:    Checked
Blue Paper:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica