Auction 96 FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
Feb 9, 2022
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
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LOT 268:

GIKATILLA, YOSEPH.
Sha’arei Orah [exposition of Kabbalistic symbolism].
Second edition.ff. ...

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Auction took place on Feb 9, 2022 at Kestenbaum & Company
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GIKATILLA, YOSEPH.
Sha’arei Orah [exposition of Kabbalistic symbolism].



Second edition.
ff. 92. Each leaf remargined, seven leaves toward end supplied in facsimile, Modern calf. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Mantua 84.
Mantua: Jacob ben Naphtali Cohen of Gazolo 1561


Sha'arei Orah was written by the Spanish Kabbalist Joseph Gikatilla toward the end of the 13th-century. It has served countless generations of aspiring students as a systematic primer of Kabbalah, working its way through the Sefiroth in ascending order.

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