Earliest Mention of the Gr"a! Tikkunei Zohar im Be'er Yitzchak. Zolkiew, 1778-1779

Earliest Mention of the Gr"a! Tikkunei Zohar im Be'er Yitzchak. Zolkiew, 1778-1779

Sefer Tikkunei Zohar with the Be'er Yitzchak commentary by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac son of Rabbi Yekutiel Zalman ztz"l of Plotzk, Reisin, sourced in the Ar"i's disciples Rabbi Chaim Vital and Rabbeinu Shalom Buzaglo in his sefer, Mikdash Melech. Zolkiew, 1778-1779. Only edition of this commentary. Especially rare sefer.

The Be'er Yitzchak commentary on Tikkunei Zohar received many approbations, including from sages at the kloiz in Brody who praise and glorify the author, the Kabbalist. Many approbations appear from Kabbalists as well. The author notes that some of the approbations he was given were lost along the way.

Two things the author heard from the Gr"a are printed in this sefer. Page 36a: "And this I also asked the rabbi, the luminary, the great and famous gaon, the pious G-dly person, known by the name Eliyahu of Vilna, and this was the response from his sacred mouth ..." Something similar appears on page 17b. The sefer was printed in the Gr"a's lifetime, about twenty years before his passing. It can be argued that in those years of the Gr"a's lifetime he was already renowned as a gaon and a G-dly person, to whom Kabbalistic inquiries were also brought. This is apparently the first sefer in which words by the Gr"a were printed!

Vinograd, Sifrei HaGr"a 1283.

Complete copy including the final two leaves - errata and a few insights gleaned by commentary's author from his friends and students.

[4], 21, [1], 181, 181-191, [3] leaf. 21.5 cm.

Fine condition. Aging stains. Minimal worming perforations. Taped reinforcements in the margins of the title page. Glosses and revisions in Yemenite script. New binding.