Sefer Ben Yochai on the veracity of the Zohar, “Expands on sayings of the Tanna Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai written in the Shas Bavli and Yerushalmi, Safra and Tosefta…”, an important work delving into the veracity of the Zohar against those who questioned it, by Rabbi Moshe Konitz ben Rabbi Menachem Mendel. First edition published during the author’s lifetime, Vienna 1815. 154 pp. Title page with an illustration of a cave with a carob tree and the inscription “The Cave” below it.
Moth perforations. Stains and some blemishes. The title page is reinforced on its verso with a leaf. New binding with moth perforations. Most of it in good overall condition.
The copy of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Berlin whose stamps appear in several places in the book. On leaf 21, a gloss handwritten by him.
The Gaon Rabbi Chaim Berlin of Volozhin was the son of the Natziv. He served as Chief Rabbi of Moscow, and as the Rosh Yeshiva of the most famous yeshiva in the world, the Volozhin yeshiva (known as the Mother of Yeshivot). In 1906 he immigrated to Jerusalem, and after the passing of Rabbi Shmuel of Salant became leader of the Ashkenazic community of Jerusalem, even though he refused the official position.
