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CHAIM BEN AVRAHAM HAKOHEN OF ALEPPO. Tur Bareket - Mekor Chaim [Kabbalistic commentary on the Shulchan Aruch - Orach Chaim]. First full edition. ff. 441. Dampstained in places, few neat marginal paper repairs. Modern boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 216; Heller, Seventeenth Century Books, pp. 736-7. Amsterdam, Immanuel Benveniste, 1654. Aleppo born R. Hayyim ben Abraham ha-Kohen (1585-1655) was a disciple of R. Chaim Vital in Damascus and a teacher of R. Nathan ben Moshe Hannover in Livorno.  The Chida was a huge admirer of R. Hayyim, even the illustrious Kabbalist R. Moshe Zacuto (Ramaz) consulted him on Kabbalistic matters. For the partial first edition of this work, see https://www.genazym.com/auction/624-winter-event-en/lot-33-31/ who also states: ”The Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, would study extensively the sefer ‘Mekor Chaim’, as his son, the current Skverer Rebbe, testified. He practiced several customs based on the sefer, saying that he observed these customs by his father-in-law, Rabbi Yehoshua of Belz (see the introduction to Tur Bareket, Jerusalem, 1995, and Zera Yaakov, Skver, vol. 28, p. 225, note 23).”