Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
March 31, 2020
Opening: $300
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Booklet, Amal URe'ut Ruach VaCharamot UTeshuvatam, polemic regarding the authenticity of the Zohar and Kabbalah, by R. Yichye Kapach (Qafih) of Yemen. [Tel Aviv, 1914?]. First edition.
The booklet contains glosses and additions handwritten by the author. At the end of the booklet, he added: "At the head of noisy streets she calls out etc. but the word of our G-d shall last forever".
In the first part of the booklet, the author printed the excommunications issued by the Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbis of Jerusalem against the Yemenites who rejected the Zohar and Kabbalah. The second part of the booklet contains the detailed response of the author, R. Yichye Kapach, in which he attacks the rabbis of Jerusalem, and argues that the excommunications were incorrectly issued. Further in his response, he excoriates the foundations of Kabbalah and the Zohar, and concludes by excommunicating the rabbis who excommunicated and ostracized him.
Background: A great controversy broke out in Yemen in the early 20th century, between those who believed in the authenticity of the Zohar and Kabbalah (the "Ikshim") and a small sect who rejected the Zohar and Kabbalah (the "Darda'im"), headed by R. Yichye Kapach (1850-1931). R. Kapach and his followers contended that the Oral Law is limited to what was received by the Talmudic sages and the Rambam, whilst anything discovered thereafter does not have any validity. According to them, Kabbalah is foreign in its spirit to Judaism. R. Kapach later substantiated his approach in his books Milchamot Hashem (Jerusalem, 1931) and Daat Elokim (Jerusalem, 1931), printed in his final year. He was excommunicated in Shevat 1914 by the Jerusalem rabbis for these views. This booklet was authored by R. Kapach as a response, and it contains his counterattack on his opponents, including excommunications he issued in return.
15, [1] pages. 20 cm. Fair condition. Stains, dampstains, tears and wear.
The booklet contains glosses and additions handwritten by the author. At the end of the booklet, he added: "At the head of noisy streets she calls out etc. but the word of our G-d shall last forever".
In the first part of the booklet, the author printed the excommunications issued by the Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbis of Jerusalem against the Yemenites who rejected the Zohar and Kabbalah. The second part of the booklet contains the detailed response of the author, R. Yichye Kapach, in which he attacks the rabbis of Jerusalem, and argues that the excommunications were incorrectly issued. Further in his response, he excoriates the foundations of Kabbalah and the Zohar, and concludes by excommunicating the rabbis who excommunicated and ostracized him.
Background: A great controversy broke out in Yemen in the early 20th century, between those who believed in the authenticity of the Zohar and Kabbalah (the "Ikshim") and a small sect who rejected the Zohar and Kabbalah (the "Darda'im"), headed by R. Yichye Kapach (1850-1931). R. Kapach and his followers contended that the Oral Law is limited to what was received by the Talmudic sages and the Rambam, whilst anything discovered thereafter does not have any validity. According to them, Kabbalah is foreign in its spirit to Judaism. R. Kapach later substantiated his approach in his books Milchamot Hashem (Jerusalem, 1931) and Daat Elokim (Jerusalem, 1931), printed in his final year. He was excommunicated in Shevat 1914 by the Jerusalem rabbis for these views. This booklet was authored by R. Kapach as a response, and it contains his counterattack on his opponents, including excommunications he issued in return.
15, [1] pages. 20 cm. Fair condition. Stains, dampstains, tears and wear.
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Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts, Letters and Glosses
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Auction 70 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
March 31, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript (8 written pages), essay arranged for publishing, authored by one of the rabbis of the Yemenite community. [Jerusalem, ca. 1926].
"I thought to add my touch, to compose a foreword for the book Yesod HaEmuna VeYesod HaAvoda authored by… R. Yaakov Shlomo Kassin…". Yesod HaEmuna was composed by R. Kassin in 1926, and it forms a complete composition responding to the polemic booklets which the Darda'im of Yemen wrote to undermine the authenticity of the Zohar and its authorship by R. Shimon bar Yochai (Yesod HaEmuna was ultimately only published in 1981, and again in 2011. This foreword was apparently not included).
In this manuscript, composed by a Yemenite Torah scholar (whom we were not able to identify), the author writes: "Since I saw an outrageous occurrence, of a scholar from a city in Yemen named Sanaa, who degrades the holy Zohar, stating that it is not a holy book neither was it written by R. Shimon bar Yochai… rather by a philosopher… and he wrote some booklets, matters of foolishness and emptiness, that even a young child would laugh at, unconceivable nonsense… When these booklets arrived and were viewed by the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities, as well as communities dwelling in Egypt and Jerusalem, they decried him as one who denies our holy Torah, and we, Yemenites living in Egypt and Jerusalem were greatly disgraced thereby, since they accuse us of denying Kabbalah which was received from Moshe at Mt. Sinai, and they blaspheme us. All the more since they heard that in Sanaa there is a controversy and there are already two factions, one named Ikshim and the other Darda'im… and they have become divided into different groups…". The author then refutes the claims raised by the Darda'i scholar from Sanaa in his booklet, disproving them through logic and reason, and bringing proofs to bolster faith in the Zohar and Kabbalah.
[5] leaves (8 written pages). 21 cm. Good condition. Placed in old sealed plastic sleeves.
Enclosed: Emunat Hashem (Jerusalem, 1937). This book was printed in the context of the same polemic, and it contains the arguments raised by the Darda'im in their booklets, together with refutations of their claims. Fair condition. Extensive worming. Original cloth binding.
"I thought to add my touch, to compose a foreword for the book Yesod HaEmuna VeYesod HaAvoda authored by… R. Yaakov Shlomo Kassin…". Yesod HaEmuna was composed by R. Kassin in 1926, and it forms a complete composition responding to the polemic booklets which the Darda'im of Yemen wrote to undermine the authenticity of the Zohar and its authorship by R. Shimon bar Yochai (Yesod HaEmuna was ultimately only published in 1981, and again in 2011. This foreword was apparently not included).
In this manuscript, composed by a Yemenite Torah scholar (whom we were not able to identify), the author writes: "Since I saw an outrageous occurrence, of a scholar from a city in Yemen named Sanaa, who degrades the holy Zohar, stating that it is not a holy book neither was it written by R. Shimon bar Yochai… rather by a philosopher… and he wrote some booklets, matters of foolishness and emptiness, that even a young child would laugh at, unconceivable nonsense… When these booklets arrived and were viewed by the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities, as well as communities dwelling in Egypt and Jerusalem, they decried him as one who denies our holy Torah, and we, Yemenites living in Egypt and Jerusalem were greatly disgraced thereby, since they accuse us of denying Kabbalah which was received from Moshe at Mt. Sinai, and they blaspheme us. All the more since they heard that in Sanaa there is a controversy and there are already two factions, one named Ikshim and the other Darda'im… and they have become divided into different groups…". The author then refutes the claims raised by the Darda'i scholar from Sanaa in his booklet, disproving them through logic and reason, and bringing proofs to bolster faith in the Zohar and Kabbalah.
[5] leaves (8 written pages). 21 cm. Good condition. Placed in old sealed plastic sleeves.
Enclosed: Emunat Hashem (Jerusalem, 1937). This book was printed in the context of the same polemic, and it contains the arguments raised by the Darda'im in their booklets, together with refutations of their claims. Fair condition. Extensive worming. Original cloth binding.
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Yemenite Jewry - Manuscripts, Letters and Glosses
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