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Ayin Panim ba-Torah, R. Abraham ha-Kohen of Lask, Warsaw 1797

עין פנים בתורה - Kabbalah - First Edition - Diagrams

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  • Lot Number 48859
  • Title (English) Ayin Panim ba-Torah
  • Title (Hebrew) עין פנים בתורה
  • Note Kabbalah
  • Author R. Abraham ben Jehiel Michal ha-Kohen of Lask
  • City Warsaw
  • Publisher דפוס אדונית זאוואצקא
  • Publication Date 1797
  • Estimated Price - Low 300
  • Estimated Price - High 600

  • Item # 1497824
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Physical Description

First edition. [18], 35, [1] ff., quarto, 175:148 mm., wide margins, light age staining, few minor wormholes. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.

 

Detail Description

Kabbalistic work by the renowned kabbalist R. Abraham ben Jehiel Michal ha-Kohen (Katz) of Lask. In Ayin Panim ba-Torah resolves questions in the Zohar, such as why the Torah begins with the letter bet in seventy ways. R. Kohen has numerous approbations including from R. Zevi Hirsch Levin and R. Zevi Hirsch Bashka.

R. Abraham ben 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-Ḥashav lo ha-Kohen (1884), Ve-Shav ha-Kohen (Leghorn, 1788), Beit Ya'akov (Leghorn, 1792), Ayin Panim ba-Torah (Warsaw, 1797).

 

Hebrew Description

 ... שמתרץ קושי’ הזוהר על התחלת התורה עם ב ולא עם א בשבעים אופני’. והמה נובעים ממעין... ר’ אברהם הכהן הי"ו מק"ק לאסק... אשר בו... נדרשים כתרי אותיות ומפענח נעלמים...

דף [1, א]: שיר מאת משה ב"ר מרדכי מנאווי דוואהר, פועל הדפוס.

 

Reference

BE ayin 518; EJ; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000141356