Bidspirit auction | Kabbalah Sefer Yesod: Mishnat Chassidim,

Kabbalah Sefer Yesod: Mishnat Chassidim, First Edition, Amsterdam 1727- Rabbi Raphael Emanuel Chai Riki. A Segulah Sefer. - Sefer Mishnat Chassidim, a summary of the wisdom of kabbala according to the Ari, By Rabbi Emanuel Chai Riki. Amsterdam, 1727. First Edition in the authors lifetime. Rare! Has appeared only a handful of times at public auction. The author, Rabbi Raphael Emanuel Chai Ricchi Hy''d (1688-1743, Otzar HaRabbanim 16746), was a great rabbi and mekubal in Italy [and Sefad]. All his life he underwent suffering and wandering until he was killed al kiddush Hashem. He was murdered by pirates on a voyage back to Europe to visit his home country. He wrote many seforim on revealed and hidden Torah topics. This sefer is one of the basic seforim on kabbalah. The Vilna Gaon and several of his disciples wrote commentaries on this sefer. Also Chassidic leaders focused on this sefer in kabbalistic study and kavanot in tefilla, (the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and others). The holy Sefer Mishnat Chassidim was sacred in the eyes of leading Chassidic Admorim and is mentioned many times in Chassidic works. Rebbi Yisrael of Ruzhin's grandfather – the Maggid of Mezeritch – mentions it [”כתוב במשנת חסידים בפקודת נוקבא”], as well as Rebbi Shnuer Zalman of Liadi, and others. A Segulah Sefer – In Sefer Emet LeYaakov (Responsum 55, p. 110), Rabbi Yaakov Sha’altiel Ninyo writes:“And I heard from trustworthy transmitters that the pious rabbi, our teacher Rabbi [David] of Gar—Rabbi David of Gar, one of the great disciples of the Rashash and among the heads of the Beit El Yeshiva—would always carry it in his bosom like an amulet, and he said that he had studied it twenty-five times…” Chassidim recount that the holy Rebbi Yisrael of Ruzhin once sent the sacred sefer Mishnat Chassidim to a Jewish soldier who had been conscripted into the Russian army, apparently as a segulah for protection (see Tiferet Yisrael journal, issue 29, 1992, pp. 43–44). Stefansky Sifrai Yesod #368. [6], 132 , [2] Leaves. Lacking the final page of the errata list, which appears only in a small number of copies. 16.5 cm.