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Etz HaChayim and Eshl Avraham, Part I, explaining the reasons for the positive commandments in the way of PARDA”S, by the great Kabbalists of North Africa. Livorno, 1783. First edition, rare. Etz HaChayim, I, by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda ben Chanin of Argeil, with Eshl Avraham, I, by Rabbi Avraham Toviana, arranged according to the Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvot. Printed by Avraham Yitzchak Kastilo and Elazar Saadon, Livorno, 1783. First and rare edition. The exampler studied by the Holy Rabbi Yoel Tzvi Rata, Av Beit Din of Tisza-Salka. [9], 133 leaves. Two commentaries on the Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvot [with the text]. With approbations of the Rabbis of Livorno and the Rabbis of Tunis. With stamps of the grandchildren of the Holy Rabbi of Tisza-Salka. The Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ben Reb Rabbi Yaakov Ben Chanin (ca. 1520–1615) – born in southern Morocco in the generation after the Expulsion from Spain, disciple of the head of the circle of Kabbalists of the Sous region in Morocco, Rabbi Moshe Albaz, author of Heichal HaKodesh. He emigrated to Algiers, where he became one of the great Kabbalists, transmitting the wisdom of Sod to select individuals of the Argeil community. Author of Etz HaChayim, a commentary on the Rambam’s Sefer HaMitzvot combining Peshat and Sod; Minchat Yehuda on the Five Megillot; Sefer HaOhr on letters, vowels, crowns, and cantillations; and more. The Kabbalist Rabbi Avraham, Ben Rabbi Shalom Toviana (ca. 1720–1792) – among the great sages and Kabbalists of Tunis; author of Chesed LeAvraham, Eshl Avraham, the Siddur Chesed LeAvraham in the way of Sod, and more. In 1764, he resided in Izmir, and between 1782–1785 lived in Italy, traveling through European communities. The Holy Rabbi Yoel Tzvi Roth, Av Beit Din of Tisza-Salka and its environs (1898–1958) – grandson and namesake of the Holy Rabbi Yoel Tzvi, author of Shu”t Beit HaYotzer (one of the great sages of Hungary). Upon reaching marriageable age, he wed the daughter of the Holy Rabbi Chaim Shlomo, author of Shemuah Tovah of Koson, son of the Holy author of Bnei Shloshim. After the Holocaust, he immigrated to New York, serving as Rav of Beit Midrash Beit HaYotzer in Brooklyn. He became renowned for his vast mastery of all realms of Torah, being fluent by heart in Bavli and Yerushalmi, Sifra, Sifrei, other Midrashim, and in the writings of the Arizal. Renewed binding with slight wear, light stains, repairs over worming damage, some leaves wavy, medium–good condition.