Bidspirit auction | Very Rare Kaballah: Si’ach Yitzchak,


Very Rare Kaballah: Si’ach Yitzchak, First Edition, Prague, 1587. Excellent copy with original vellum binding. - Sefer Si’ach Yitzchak, “… new song to sing on evening of Pesach…”, by Rabbi Yitzchak Chayut Av Beit Din of Prague [author of Api Ravreve]. A series of Kabbalistic poems with commentary, all of whose themes relate to the First Nights of Passover, including instructions and laws pertaining to the Seder. First Edition. Prague, [1587]. Printed by Mordechai Katz and by his sons Bezalel and Gershom Katz. Extremly Scarce! Has rarely appeared at public auction. The title of this rare sefer is tucked away at the bottom of the title-page in small rabbinic letters. [20] Leaves. 19.5 cm. Title within historiated border. Kabbalistic diagrams throughout. The author was a scion of a branch of the Hasidei Provence who later settled in Bohemia, where he was appointed Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Prague in 1584.