Auction 54
Lot 178:
Sfat Emet, written by the gaon and kabbalist Rabbi Menachem Azarya of Pano. The work is an updated second edition of Shaar Archei Kinuyim in the Sefer Pardes Rimonim by the Ramak, and a continuation of Asis Rimonim by the Rema. The work is mentioned a number of times by the author himself in his work Asarah Ma’amarot.
According to the testimony of the title page and the publisher’s introduction, the work was based on a manuscript until then possessed by the Admor Rabbi Shalom of Belz, brought to the publisher by his son and successor, the Admor Rabbi Yehoshua of Belz. First edition, Lubachów, 1898. [2], 46 leaves. Approbations from the Admor Rabbi Yehezkel Shraga of Sieniawa, who writes: “To bring blessing into one’s home and the merit of the author to protect us and save us from evil and to influence for a good blessing on the Jewish people”. Also one from Rabbi Yitzhak Shmelkis, Av Beit Din of Lviv.
No binding, detached indices, brittle paper, stains, overall good condition.
The rear blank leaf has a long inscription in pencil explaining kabbalistically the maamar chazal on Chanukkah that the Greeks requested the Jews to “write on the bull’s horn that you have no part in the Gods of Israel”. The title page has a note of ownership in pencil which could not be identified.
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