Auction 66

Rare! The Tchelet Polemic: Chosen Yeshu'ot by the Kabbalist Rabbi Hillel Meshil Gelbstein - Kabbalah First Edition Jerusalem, 1884

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Sefer Chosen Yeshu’ot, Kabbalistic commentary on tractate Bava Kama by the Kabbalist Rabbi Hillel Meshil Gelbstein. 

Printed in Jerusalem. The work iteself ends abruptly in the middle of a sentence and apparently, more was not printed. According to the title page, the Hebrew year of printing is 1873? 1879?. Whereas, leaf 16b contains an approbation by the rabbis of Hebron from 1884 and leaf 32b refers to Sefer Ptil Tchelet that was published in 1884. 42 leaves. (Shoshana Halevi 320). In the National Library, the book appears in the Rare Book Collection. Leaves 13 and onward were printed by another printery in Jerusalem. 

On leaf 32b, he writes against the Admor of Radzin Baal Hatechelet: "כמו בזמנינו שקם איש א’ מראדזין והלביש את חברתו במראה פסול תכלת מבעל חי ואומר תכלת הוא".

No binding. Detached last leaf. Some moth perforations. Good overall condition.