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(ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA). Yitzchak Eisik ben Yekuthiel Zalman of Mohilev.  Peri Yitzchak [commentary to Sepher Yetzirah]. First Edition. With Kabbalistic charts. ff. (11), 37. Stained, trace wormed. Modern boards, 8vo. Vinograd, Grodno 70; Vinograd, Gr’a 687. Grodno (Horodna), Baruch b. Yoseph, 1798. The particular text of the Sepher Yetzirah that appears here (there are many), was directly authorized by the Vilna Gaon. Moreover, the Gaon also approved the commentary.  R. Yitzchak Eizik was a contemporary of the Gaon and studied in his Beth HaMedrash.