Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Sha'ar HaGilgulim – Jerusalem 1863 – Signature and Glosses of Rabbi Shaul Katzin

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Sha'ar HaGilgulim, the eighth section of Torat HaAri from his disciple Rabbi Chaim Vital. Jerusalem, [1863]. (S. HaLevi 89).
Owner's signature on title page: "This book is for all whom I will to study… Shaul Katzin…". Rabbi Shaul [Ma'atuk] Katzin (1864-1917), a Torah scholar and mekubal, immigrated to Jerusalem in 1891, served as Shliach Tzibbur by Rabbi HaSadeh in the “Rehovot HaNahar” Yeshiva. [See: L'Kdoshim Asher BaAretz, pp. 165-166].
The book sheets have four short glosses in his handwriting (in pencil). Stamps of the Rehovot HaNahar Mekubalim Yeshiva.
78 Seventy-eight leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition, few stains. Original leather binding.
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