Manuscript, Klach Pitchei Chochmah, kabbalistic principles by R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto – the Ramchal. [Eastern Europe], 1819.

Copying of the work in neat Ashkenazic cursive script. The main text is written in "windows", with the commentary written around it on the rest of the page. The beginning of the first page is dated: "Isru Chag, Pesach 1819".

Klach Pitchei Chochmah was the main kabbalistic work of the Ramchal printed at the time. It was first printed in Korets, 1785, by R. Shlomo Lutzker, a disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch (the preface to the book was first printed several years earlier, as Derech Etz HaChaim, at the end of Mesilat Yesharim, Zhovkva, 1766).

R. Aharon Marcus, scholar of Chassidut, writes that the present work was preserved thanks to the Maggid of Mezeritch, who encouraged its publication by his disciple R. Shlomo Lutzker, author of Divrat Shlomo (Keset HaTorah, Jerusalem 2016, p. 27).

The Korets edition includes an approbation by R. Yaakov Yosef of Ostroh, disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch (known as Rav Yeibi; see Encyclopedia LaChassidut, p. 267), who esteemed the Ramchal highly, and writes in the name of the Maggid of Mezeritch: that "his generation were not worthy of understanding his righteousness and temperance, and therefore many of our people, due to their great ignorance, spoke unbefittingly of the righteous man… And see what a great man attests… he can be relied upon, and the rumors may cease…".

[54] leaves. 21 cm. Light bluish paper. Good-fair condition. Wear and creases. Many stains and fading of ink. New binding.