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Classics: First Edition Tikunei Zohar, Mantua, 1558, by the Holy

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Classics:
First Edition Tikunei Zohar, Mantua, 1558,
by the Holy Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai

Including Extensive Marginalia in Early Ashkenazic Script

First edition Tikunei Zohar including seventy explanations on the first letter of the word "Breishis" authored by the holy Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.

Many Rabbinic leaders opposed the printing and public distribution of Kabbalah, maintaining that Kabbalah should only be passed orally through teacher and disciple. Countering this view, the present edition includes four Halachic rulings from the leading Italian rabbis of the time encouraging and endorsing the publishing of the Zohar.

This volume was glossed and brought to print by Rabbi Immanuel Benevento, author of sefer Livyat Chen, in Mantua, 1558.

Multiple edits and changes of text can be found throughout the pages of the volume, handwritten in early Ashkenazic script.

Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod – Classics, No. 329

[4], 146, [2] leaves | 19.5 cm | Slightly defected title page, few holes, water stains and signs of age

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