Tikkunei HaZohar with Handwritten Chiddushim & Glosses
First Edition. Mantua, 1558
Fundamental Kabbalistic Sefer
Sefer Tikkunei HaZohar by the holy Tanna Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.
Encompasses the seventy ways (shivin anpin), of explaining the first word in the Torah
Breishis. With these seventy explanations Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai revealed the foundations of the Hidden Torah.
Tikkunei HaZohar is inseparable from the Sefer HaZohar, and it is mentioned in the latter in Parshas Ki Savo. (See the preface to Kisei Melech which explains why it was called Tikkunim.) Kabbalistic sages expressed that learning the Tikkunei HaZohar is auspicious for purifying the soul and drawing the final redemption near.
First edition of Tikkunei HaZohar, printed in Mantua at the same time they printed the first edition of the Zohar in Mantua.
The first pages of the sefer contain four halachic rulings and declarations by famous Italian Rabbis permitting the printing of the Zohar and its Tikkunim as well as the general availing of kabbalistic teachings to the public.
The present work was printed and edited by Rabbi Emanuel Benvenito, author of Levias Chen. The leaves of the sefer feature numerous handwritten kabbalistic annotations and chiddushim in a rabbinic Sephardic hand.
Mantua, 1558. First edition. [4], 146, [2] leaves. Page size: 19 cm. Water stains on ten first pages, including title pages. Margins professionally restored. Bound in new leather binding.
Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod #329
