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Lot #    8264
Auction End Date    10/19/2004 10:31:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ve-Hashav lo ha-Kohen
Title (Hebrew)    וחשב לו הכהן
Author    [Kabbalah - First Ed.] R. Abraham ha-Kohen of Lask
City    Furth
Publisher    Itzik Zirndorf
Publication Date    1784
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 12, [2], 32 ff., 186:155 mm., wied margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in the original paper wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Abraham b. Jehiel Michal ha-Kohen of Lask, Poland (d.c. 1800), kabbalist and rabbinical emissary. R. Abraham was renowned for his asceticism, fasting during the week and eating only on the Sabbath. He settled in Jerusalem shortly after 1770. Ten years later he returned to Europe as an emissary to collect funds on behalf of the rabbis of Jerusalem, and was then involved in a number of disputes with them regarding these collections. He traveled extensively and is known to have been in Nice for four years, in Ferrara (where he met Graziadio Neppi), Glogau, Berlin, and Warsaw. Wherever he went, he exhorted the Jewish community to repentance and good deeds and encouraged more intensive communal activity, including the building of synagogues. On his return to Jerusalem (1790) he was arrested and held ransom for the failure of the Jewish community to pay taxes. He died in prison, probably as a result of maltreatment. The best-known of his kabbalistic works are Ve-Hashav lo ha-Kohen, Ve-Shav ha-Kohen (Leghorn, 1788); Beit Ya'akov (Leghorn, 1792), Ayin Panim ba-Torah (Warsaw, 1797).
          
Paragraph 2    אשר איזן ותקן... מוה' אברהם כ"ץ נ"י מלאסק במדינו' פולין... חושב ומונה... ודרוש כתרי אותיות וגלה... רזין דאורייתא...

"הא" שבפרט הוא גם: ה אלפים. דף [2-1]: "התנצלות המחוקק"; לוח הטעות; "אמר המעתיק הקדמת הספר", ר' יוזפא מערצבאך מפיורדא. הסכמות: רבני ירושלים: ר' יום טוב אלגאזי, ר' ניסן [נסים] שמואל בכר מיוחס, ר' מרדכי יוסף בכר מיוחס, ר' ישראל יעקב בארלה [בורלה], ר' מנצר [מנצור] מרזוק ור' אליהו צבי; ר' צבי הירש ב"ר אברהם, פיורדא, ב שבט תקמ"ד; ר' יוסף ב"ר מאיר תואמים [!], פ"פ דאדר, יב אדר-א תקמ"ג; ר' ישראל חיים ב"ר דוד מלמד (שד"ר מחברון), פיורדא, ג שבט תקמ"ד.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0141353; EJ; Yaari, Sheluhei, 550, 553–6
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica