Sefer Eshel Avraham, “…with an exegesis on the Seven Days of Creation. And the sod of ta’amei torah and the letters and niqqud…and Etz HaDaat Tov v’Ra…and also Shiur Kuma…and some maamarim from the Zohar (with the language of the Zohar included) with exegesis. The beginning of the book is the sod of the Ten Sfirot…”, by the kabbalist Rabbi Mordechai ben Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ashkenazi, who lived in the 17th century. A student of the kabbalist Rabbi Avraham Revigo, after whom he named the work.
Printed by Model of Ansbach, at the printshop of Zvi Hirsch ben Yosef Segal.
First edition from the author’s lifetime. 186 leaves.
Catalogued in the Rare Books section of the National Library. The body of the work has various kabbalistic illustrations,
including an engraving of the Ilan HaKadosh over two leaves. Many important approbations from Ashkenazi rabbis and those of Bohemia and Moravia.
Antique leather binding, perhaps original(?), tears to the title page and tape hiding text on this and additional pages. Most of the book has undergone repairs in the interior margins, until the middle of the book it damages the text. Stains, a few worming holes, tears in the last group of pages, overall fair condition.
The first series of leaves has a long note of ownership repeated in the upper margin of the leaf in sequence creating the sentence: “This book Eshel Avraham belongs to the HaHaz(?), the important woman, widow Marat Beila bat Moharar…wife of the departed Moharar Yitzhak Rezitzky of Choshin, called Beila Izush of Choshin.”
