Pair of Books by the Mahar"i Gikatilla Bound Together. Kabbalistic Comments, Signatures and Stamps

Pair of Books by the Mahar"i Gikatilla Bound Together. Kabbalistic Comments, Signatures and Stamps

* Ginat Egoz deals with gematriahs and kabbalistic Name combinations. Zolkiew, 1771.

Approximately six kabbalistic glosses, some of which are lengthy, in Sephardic script from the time of printing.

95, [1] leaf.

* Sha'ar Orah - one of the foundational books on kabbalah which constitutes the gateway to kabbalistic study.

The Ar"i said about this book that it is the key to kabbalistic doctrine. Rabbi Chaim of Volzhin stated that in order to minimally fulfill the obligation of kabbalah study, one must learn the Zohar  and Sha'arei Orah.

[2] 83 leaves.

Signatures and stamps: "Chaim Ya'akov HaKohen bar Yehuda Dov z"l of Iasi, of Safed." as well as "Mordechai Noach Kahan of Tiberias."

Rabbi Chaim Ya'akov HaKohen Feinstein was a resident of Safed and Jerusalem, an emissary and a Talmudic scholar. He traveled three times as an emissary for Kollel Chaissidim in Safed 1866-1887. He traveled as far as Sa'ana, Yemen and Cochin, India. While he was in Cochin, he saw that even religious Jews traveled on the train on Shabbat, so he composed his book Imrei Shabbat (Calcutta, 1874) on the prohibition of the matter. He also authored Torat Imecha (Calcutta, 1886) - admonishing Indian Jewry for widespread inappropriate conduct there, as well as the compilation "Mashbit Milchamot" (printed at the end of his book Imrei Shabbat, Krakow edition, 1889) on the Judaism of the black Jews of Cochin.

Rabbi Yosef  Gikatilla [1248-1305] was one of the leading kabbalists of Spain in the 13th century. He was born in Castille and was a disciple of Rabbi Avraham Abulafia, who called him "The hidden treasure of Eden: "He undoubtedly succeeded wondrously in what he studied with me, making his own contributions, and Hash-em was with him." He expanded upon and disseminated his rabbi's teachings. When he was about 24 years old, he authored Ohr HaGanuz. His book Sha'ar Orah opens with a responsum to an inquiry about G-d's names. The inquiring student wanted to perform magic with them, and Rabbi Gikatilla tries to dissuade the student from practical use of the Names, and certainly not for profit.

20 cm; fine condition. Aging stains. Simple binding.