Zohar Chadash and Midrash HaNe’elam by the Tana Rabbi Shimon bar Yochay, with glosses of the Arizal and the kabbalist Rabbi Yaakov Tzemach, “and for the benefit of the masses we have re-added the Sefer Sod Hashem, including the entire evolution of the Eser Sfirot”, see below.
Printed by Yona ben Yaakov Ashkenazi. 176, [1] leaves in the original (this copy is missing the last leaf, which just has a commentary on certain words and is not part of the body of the work).
Catalogued in the National Library’s Rare Books section. On the back of the title page is an introduction from Rabbi Yosef bar Yehuda Chamitz, and words from the printer.
Leaf 168-175: “Sefer Sod Hashem by one of the holy Rishonim, built upon the Ari…found written and composed in the Sefer HaTemunah attributed to Rabbi Yishmael Kohen Gadol, but is not part of Sefer HaTemunah and is without a doubt by one of the Rishonim who received it from the ancients orally”. It is a different manifestation of “Sod Ilan HaAtzilut” by Rabbi Yitzhak. See: Gershom Scholem, in “Kovetz Al Yad”, 15, 1951, p. 68: “Sod Hashem is not identical to Sod Shem HaMefurash printed with Sefer HaTemunah, Koritz 1784, and not with Sefer HaShem printed in Kovetz Heichal Hashem, Venice 1601.”
Title page has a pretty cutting job (repaired), additional leaves repaired, worming damage (some filled in), worming holes, new pretty binding, overall fair condition.
