Birkat Yosef, a commentary on Sefer HaYetzira, gathering from the Zohar and other works of kabbalah including the Ari, “for the merit of our brothers the Jewish people so that all can understand simply the words, collected by me the young Yosef Eidlish Ashkenazi of Tzfat (Av Beit Din of Rakshov originally)…printed in Salonika by the orphans of Betzalel HaLevi Ashkenazi.”
At the end of the work is a separate pagination of 8 leaves without a title page (this is original), the work
Lev Yoshe’a on the torah, by “Yoshe’a Shlomiel Ovadya Yedidya….[ben] Rabbi Chaim Yitzhak Mosafiya”. In the short introduction he writes: “I said to attach this [to Birkat Yosef] some chiddushim [kabbalistic]…handwritten by Rabbi…
Shimshon of Ostropoly…in my possession on all the parshiyot…[with the] addition of Yesh Me’Ein [the additions by Rabbi Mosafiya, his name’s acronym].”
13cm. 24; 8 leaves. Soft, old binding, probably original (worn in the margins). Stains and worming holes, a few tears with light defects to text. Overall good condition.
An especially rare kabbalistic work—hasn’t appeared at auction, only in a few libraries around the world. Signatures of ownership on the blank binding leaf and the title page: “Yoshe’a Avraham Yehuda.”
