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LOT 41:
Mishnas Chassidim, by Rabbi Emanuel Chai Ricci. Amsterdam, [1740]. Second edition. Published in the author's ...
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Mishnas Chassidim, by Rabbi Emanuel Chai Ricci. Amsterdam, [1740]. Second edition. Published in the author's lifetime.
Sefer Mishnas Chassidim, Sidrei Tefilos and Hanhagos with an elucidation per the Kabballah of the holy Ari, by the Kabbalist Rav Rabbi Emanuel Chai Ricci. Second edition with glosses and corrections. Amsterdam, [1740]. This Sefer is the most known of the author's Seforim and is known as a basic and methodological essay which greatly contributed to the distribution of the Ari's Kabbalah.
[4], 132 leaves, 16 cm. With approbations by Rabbi Hillel Ashkenazi of Kania and by Rabbi Chaim Abulafia of Safed and approbations by the Sages of Safed from the first edition. With [2] handwritten glosses. Owner's signatures and ownership notation "לזכרון מן אדוננו... מורינו ורבינו אב"ד ור"מ מהר"ר יעקב משה נרו יאיר מן אבי זצוק"ל".
Apparently, this edition was published without the author's knowledge since in the preface of Sefer Chazah Zion, he wrote, presumably with respect to the Amsterdam 1742 edition: "G-d has merited me publishing ... Sefer Mishnas Chassidim a second time with an addition from the Etz Chaim [by Rabbi Chaim vital], which I merited reading entirely here in Jerusalem".
Rabbi Raphael Emanuel Chai Ricci (1687-1743), Rav and Kabbalist, commentator and Payten. Was born in Italy and immigrated to Safed, where he studied Kabbalah. On his way abroad due to a plague in the Galilee, he was captured by pirates and after being rescued, returned to Italy. After four years as the Rav of Florence, he travelled to Livorno to publish his Seforim. After travelling to central cities to sell his Seforim, he returned to Jerusalem. He again travelled abroad to raise funds for a yeshiva in Jerusalem and to print his Seforim and on his way back to the Land of Israel, was murdered by highwaymen. Authored Seforim on the Bible and the Shas, commentary on the Mishnayos and Tehillim, poems and riddles, Kabbalistic Seforim and more.
Worn leather binding, stains, loose spine, a short tear to the last leaf, fair-good condition.
