Petach Einayim, index to Biblical verses appearing in the Zohar and Tikunei Zohar, by R. Eliezer Sternburg. Cracow: Menachem Nachum son of Moshe Meisels, 1647. Only edition.

Topical index to Biblical verses appearing in the Zohar and Tikunei Zohar. After each verse appears a brief reference to its place in the Zohar or Tikunei Zohar.

The author, R. Eliezer son of Menachem Manish Sternburg of Cracow, lists several reasons for the book's name in his introduction, and blesses the purchasers of the book to have "lengthy days and years, and see children and grandchildren, in peace and quiet, and fly to the city of Zion like doves to their cotes". The introduction contains an explanation of the structure of the book and the verses included in it, and the key to the references.

The author's introduction is followed by several approbations, including one by R. Yom Tov Lipman HaLevi Heller, Rabbi of Cracow, the Tosafot Yom Tov.

Signature on title page (partially deleted by ink stains):
"G-d granted me this book, Avraham HaLevi of Chelm" – the signature of R. Avraham HaLevi of Chelm, Rabbi of Emden – a leading rabbi of his generation, successor of R. Yaakov Emden as Rabbi of Emden (ca. 1750-1760), mentioned in Responsa Noda BiYehudah (Yoreh Deah, Kama, 1) and Zichron Yaakov by R. Yaakov Berlin (Fürth, 1770). A responsum of his dated 1765 appears in Responsa She'elat Yaavetz (II, 24-25). In 1760 he began to serve as Rabbi of Hildesheim (his document of appointment to the position was published in Kerem Shlomo, IV, 1). He fought the vestiges of Sabbateanism in Germany alongside R. Yaakov Emden (see articles on him by A. Brik, Shanah BeShanah, 1980, pp. 335-340; Shanah BeShanah, 1993, pp. 409-420).

[2], 37, [2] leaves. 18.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark stains to upper part of many leaves. Close trimming, affecting text (bottom line mostly missing from two leaves). New binding.

Rare.

CB, no. 5002,1.