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Mishnas Chassidim, by Rabbi Emanuel Chai Ricci. Amsterdam, [1740]. Second edition. Published in the author's lifetime. - Sefer Mishnas Chassidim, Sidrei Tefilos and Hanhagos with an elucidation per the Kabballah of the holy Ari, by the Kabbalist  Rabbi Emanuel Chai Ricci. Second edition with corrections. Amsterdam, 1740. Title within typographical border.  This Sefer is the most known of the author's Seforim and is known as a basic and methodological essay which greatly contributed to the distribution of the Ari's Kabbalah. The sefer is prefaced by the text of the Semicha, or rabbinic ordination, granted to the author by Rabbi Hillel Aschkenazi of Hania, Crete. (Of recent interest, while in the process of reconstructing the destroyed synagogue of Hania and surrounding courtyard, Dr. Nikos Stavroulakis discovered the gravesite of R. Hillel Aschkenazi. See R. Alpert, Caught in the Crack: Encounters with the Jewish Muslims of Turkey (2002). And approbation by Rabbi Chaim Abulafia of Safed and approbations by the Sages of Safed from the first edition.  [6], 132 Leaves. 16 Cm.