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Kabbalistic book by a mysterious author: Galya Raza. First edition. Mahlov, 1812. With a lengthy,...

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Kabbalistic book by a mysterious author: Galya Raza. First edition. Mahlov, 1812. With a lengthy, important foreword by the holy Rav the author of the Be’er Mayim Chaim and Sidduro shel Shabbat. Copy of Rabbi Yisroel Kahana, Shochet and Bodek of Warsaw and a leading Chassid of the Ahavas Yisroel of Vizhnitz. 

 Opinions differ over who of the Ari’s disciples authored this book. See: G. Shalem, Kiryat Sefer, II, 1925-1926. Stefansky Chassidut 111. 

A copy with many signatures and stamp of the Chassid Rav Rabbi Yisroel Kahana of Borsha, a member of the pedigreed Kahana family and a descendant of the Kuntres Hasfeikot. One of the leading disciples of Maran the Ahavas Yisroel of Vizhnitz and Shochet in Borsha for dozens of years. His brother, Rabbi Meir Kahana, was a Shochet in their birth town of Vilchovich for 40 years. 

An additional ownership stamp, unclear, of the Dayan Horowitz. 

[2], 7, [1], 9-44, 47-48 leaves. Original mispagination. Complete copy. Tear due to wear to the edge of the title page and the foreword, affecting the text. Moth perforations. Stains, mainly on the title page. Wear. Good condition. 

Measurement: 20 CM