Sefer Yezirah, Korzec 1779
ספר יצירה - Kabbalah - Hasidic
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- Lot Number 47691
- Title (English) Sefer Yezirah with commentary of the Gaon
- Title (Hebrew) ספר יצירה
- Note Kabbalah - Hasidic
- City Korzec (Korets)
- Publisher דפוס צבי הירש בן אריה ליב [מרגליות] וחתנו שמואל בן ישכר בער סג"ל
- Publication Date 1779
- Estimated Price - Low 300
- Estimated Price - High 600
- Item # 1398470
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Physical Description
36 ff., quarto, 175:150 mm., usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern quarter leather and cloth over boards.
Detail Description
The Book of Creation, the earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic, speculative thought. Its brevity - no more than 1,600 words altogether even in its longer version - allied to its obscure and at the same time laconic and enigmatic style, as well as its terminology, have no parallel in other works on related subjects. The result of all these factors was that for over 1,000 years the book was expounded in a great many different ways, and not even the scientific investigations conducted during the 19th century succeeded in arriving at unambiguous and final results.
Bought to press by two hasidic Admorim. R. Solomon ben Abraham Lutsker (d. 1813). and R. Simeon b. Judah Loeb Ashkenazi.
Hebrew Description
"חיבורו הגדול" של המחבר, הנזכר בשער הוא ספר "שושן סודות". פירוש זה הוא החלק האחרון של "שושן סודות", והוא כולל "סודות" מס’ תסד-תרנו. החלק הראשון של "שושן סודות" נדפס בקארעץ תקמ"ד.
עיין: חיים ליברמן, דפוסי קארעץ, סיני, סח, תשל"א, עמ’ קפז-קפט. ליברמן הדפיס גם שם, מתוך כתב-יד, את הסוד האחרון, שנשמט כאן.
References
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000154974; EJ