Auction 17
Lot 307:
Manuscript of 30 pages, densely written. Some in Sefardi handwriting and other in block print.g Includes many kabbalistic illustrations. Handwriting of Rabbi Avraham Heichini, a great kabbalist of his generation. Twice appears his name, on page 23a and 29b. Shabtai Zvi would do many miracles through practical kabbalah. The manuscript before us is written by his right-hand man, and contains extremely rare kabbalistic texts. He was a great of his generation and a student of Rabbi Yosef of Tarani, the Shot Maharit. Authored a large commentary on the Tosefta, the first complete exegesis on the Tosefta ever written, but it is lost. He also dealt with piyyut and kabbalah according to the drashot of Rav Haim Vittel, which began to reach larger centers of Jewish thought in Kushta and Salonika. Many sages would write about him, and he was among many early sages who would be taken in by Shabtai before rejecting him. | This manuscript is accompanied by a signed certificate by a manuscript expert, Rav Shimon Schwartz, that the handwriting is in fact his. 30 pages. 22x16cm. Moth marks, folding in the margins. Generally good to very good condition.
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