Auction 45

Sefer Ohr Yisrael by Rabbi Yisrael Yafeh (kabbalah). Only edition, Frankfurt der Oder, 1702. Attributed copy

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A kabbalistic work by Rabbi Yisrael Yafeh, the Av Beit Din of Shklov. Commentaries on the Zohar and writings of the Ari, limmud haAtzilot, Shulchan Aruch Orech Hayyim (mystically), and kabbalistic illustrations.


The title page has the signature of Rabbi Ephraim Shmuel Lerner, – see below.  head of the Shaar HaShamayim yeshiva.

7, 187 leaves (missing the title page). Lone moth holes, good condition.

Rabbi Ephraim Shmuel Lerner (1879-1962) was the son of Rabbi Mordechai, he served as rosh yeshiva of the Ashkenazi kabbalistic yeshiva Sha’ar HaShamayim in Jerusalem, was a founder of the Sha’arei Chesed neighborhood there, and founded the Gra synagogue there and served there as chazan for many years.