Lot : 53

Sefer HaZohar. Shapira Press
Slavita, 1824
Magnificent condition

Start price: $5,000

Est. Price: $8,000 - $12,000

Sefer HaZohar. Shapira Press

Slavita, 1824

Magnificent condition

Sefer HaZohar by the Tanna Eloki Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, edited and amended based on the Constantinople edition and printed in Slavita at the famed Shapira Press.

Beautiful and impressive set printed on light blue paper, with wide margins and ornate binding, title pages printed in red ink.

This edition of Sefer HaZohar was printed by Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Shapira, son of the illustrious Slavita Rav, Rabbi Moshe Shapira.

The sefer begins with an approbation by the Ohev Yisrael of Apta, dated 9 Tammuz 5584 (1824), only nine months before his passing.

It is well known throughout the land the beauty of the Slavita printing, under the watchful eye of the teacher of righteousness, the famous rabbi and chassid Harav Reb Moshe Shapiro the Av- Beis-Din of the City of Slavita, and with hashem’s will he successfully beautifies his books with majestic splendor. And now how wonderful and pleasant it is that he wishes to reprint the Sifrei HaZohar, and I hereby deliver a warning to all to refrain from infringing on his property… And those who listen shall be blessed with goodness… Hakatan Avraham Yehoshua Heschel of Apta, Mezibuz.”

Slavita, 1824.

Vol. 1 (Bereishis): [4], 251, 17 leaves;

Vol. 2 (Shmos): [1], 17, 19-278 leaves;

Vol. 3 (Vayikra-Bamidbar-Devarim): 115, [1] , 117-309 leaves.

Page size: 20 cm. 3 volumes with 3 title pages in red ink and an additional internal title page for Bamidbar-Devarim. Light, restorations on several pages. Last page professionally restored.

Pristine copy in half-leather binding with matching case.

Special copy! Bound to the end of Vol. 1 of this copy are 10 leaves containing an index of topics mentioned in the Zohar in alphabetical order. Previously, this index was only known to be found in the Slavita, 1827-1829 Edition.

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“Therefore, one should strive to purchase sefarim printed by G-d-fearing men, and especially from the Slavita and Zhitomir Presses [owned] by the Admor of Koritz’s grandchildren, who were exalted printers.” (Taharas Hakodesh Ch. 6 by the Shomer Emunim)

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