Only edition, quarto, 180 ff. 246:181 mm., usual age staining, old stamps. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.

Rare - due to its popularity and easy Judeo-German readability, this work was heavily read by women and common folk - leaving few surviving copies.

 

The Author was a noted kabbalist and itinerant preacher who lived in Cracow, in Prossnitz, and in western Europe. He published: Shabtade-Rigla, a collection of kabbalistic sermons (Fuerth, 1693); Derekh Yesharah, kabbalistic prayers and magic (ibid., 1697). A part of the first work was translated into German in 1698. The autograph manuscript of his kabbalistic work Tiferet Zevi is extant in a Bodleian manuscript at Oxford. R. Chotsh also revised a Yiddish translation made by his grandfather Aviezer Zelig of easier parts of the Zohar under the title Nahalat Zevi (Frankfort, 1711). The book became very popular and was often reprinted. Shabya deRigla,kabbalistic sermons by R. Zevi Hirsh b. Jerahmeel Chotsh (c. 1700) in the spirit of R. Isaac Luria's Kabbalah.

 

Hebrew Description

ספר נחלת צבי : על חמשה חומשי תורה / צבי הירש בן ירחמיאל חאטש ; דס היילוגי ספר האט מחבר גיוועזין ... רבי שמעון בן יוחאי ...

על השער: וכאשר נדפס ... בזוטאמיר.

 

EJ