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Zohar Constantinople 'Malchu't' - 1736 - corrected and Important Edition of the Zohar - Glosses
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Zohar Constantinople 'Malchu't' - 1736 - corrected and Important Edition of the Zohar - Glosses
Zohar with references and additions from the commentary of the Ar'i and more. Part Four - BaMidbar. Constantinople, 1736. A proofread and especially important edition of the Book of Zohar - source edition for all editions printed after it - glosses. Thick and fine paper.
On the title page is a dedication from Rabbi Nissim Halevi to Rabbi Pinchas Ashkenazi. Among the pages of the book there are ancient glosses in Sphardic script, from the time of printing.
The seventh edition of the Book of Zohar was printed in Constantinople in the year "Malchut" - 1736, according to the Mantua printing, with the approval of the Constantinople rabbis. This edition of the Zohar on which it is written: "Accurate from the Zohar of Rabbi Chaim Vital himself" considered to be the most Accurate of all the patterns that preceded it, and according to the printers ""The Seventh Edition is Distilled Sevenfold", according to this edition most editions of the Zohar were printed after.
In the introduction to the well-known printer R. Yona Ashkenazi, describes how he received from Damascus the book of the Zohar by Rabbi Chaim Vital, who accurate letter by letter and word by word by Moshe Mizrahi. He also adds that he had before him some of the Zohar books of many other Kabbalists, and according to the Accurate books he printed this edition, Likewise, he lists the eleven degrees of this edition over its predecessors, and the eleventh degree is that the proofreader of this edition particularly well versed in the wisdom of Kabbalah and that it should be trusted as an iron pillar. This important introduction has been reprinted in many of the later editions. Maran HaChid'a also relied on this edition of the Zohar and read about it: Constantinople Kushta edition - Kushta' ['Constantinople edition - truth'].
[1], 117-307 leaves. 21 cm. Cardboard cover (leather spine). Good condition.
