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- Lot Number 54545
- Title (English) Shabta de-Rigla
- Title (Hebrew) שבתא דריגלא
- Note Only Edition
- Author R. Zevi Hirsh Chotsch
- City Fuerth
- Publisher Press of the deceased Joseph b. Solomon
- Publication Date 1693
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 2636676
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Description
Physical Description
Only edition. [7], 4-70 ff., quarto, 190:155 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining, decorated title page. A good copy bound in modern boards.
Detail Description
The Author was a noted kabbalist and itinerant preacher who lived in Cracow, in Prossnitz, and in western Europe. He published: Shabta de-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
Reference
EJ; 0133234; EJ