Auction 96 FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
Feb 9, 2022
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

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LOT 286:

(KABBALAH).
Eliyahu Loans (Eliyahu Ba’al Shem). Michlol Yofi [commentary to the Book of ...

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(KABBALAH).
Eliyahu Loans (Eliyahu Ba’al Shem). Michlol Yofi [commentary to the Book of Koheleth].



Second edition.
ff. 27. Stained. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Berlin 281.
Berlin: Meir ben Laizer 1775


Known as the Baal Shem of Worms, R. Eliyahu Loans (1555-1636) was a Frankfurt-born Kabbalist. He spent time in Cracow and in Prague where he initiated and led a group of mystics known as Machane Yisrael. This included R. Yoel, who taught R. Adam of Ropshnitz, who taught the Baal Shem Tov.