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Aus dem Heiligen Buche Sohar des Rabbi Schimon ben Jochai, 1920, in German Aus dem Heiligen Buche Sohar des Rabbi Schimon ben Jochai. Eine Auswahl / zusammengestellt und uebertragen von Jankew Seidmann Druckleitung und Einband von Menachem Birnbaum (Printing and binding by Menachem Birnbaum (perished in Holocaust) Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920., 63 pp. Hardcover, size: 19 x 13 cm. Condition: cover discolored and stained, spine is missing but binding still tight; some foxing to endpapers; light brown / brown paper inside Weight: 130 gr. Shimon bar Yochai (Zoharic Aramaic: שמעון בר יוחאי, Simʿon bar Yoḥay) or Shimon ben Yochai (Mishnaic Hebrew: Aus dem Heiligen Buche Sohar des Rabbi Schimon ben Jochai, 1920, in German Aus dem Heiligen Buche Sohar des Rabbi Schimon ben Jochai. Eine Auswahl / zusammengestellt und uebertragen von Jankew Seidmann Druckleitung und Einband von Menachem Birnbaum (Printing and binding by Menachem Birnbaum (perished in Holocaust) Berlin: Welt-Verlag, 1920., 63 pp. Hardcover, size: 19 x 13 cm. Condition: cover discolored and stained, spine is missing but binding still tight; some foxing to endpapers; light brown / brown paper inside Weight: 130 gr. Shimon bar Yochai (Zoharic Aramaic: שמעון בר יוחאי, Simʿon bar Yoḥay) or Shimon ben Yochai (Mishnaic Hebrew: שמעון בן יוחי), also known by the acronym Rashbi, was a 2nd-century tanna or sage of the land of Israel. He was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva. The Zohar, a 13th-century foundational work of Kabbalah, is ascribed to him by Kabbalistic tradition, but this claim is universally rejected by modern scholars Menachem Birnbaum (born 1893 in Vienna, died probably 1944), was an Austrian Jewish book illustrator and portrait painter.