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Midrash Hane’elam VeZohar, [II]. Published in the lifetime of the book’s proofreader, the Divine Kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Zacuto. Venice, [1658]. Rare.
[Section II]: Midrash Hane’elam VeZohar, Shir Hashirim and some Eicha and Midrash Rut and Tikkunei Zohar Chadash. With Kabbalistic glosses by the Ari which were found in the library of Rabbi Menachem di Lonzano and proofread by Rabbi Moshe Zacuto. Gerolemo Bragadino Press, Venice, [1658]. Rare,
58, 40 leaves. 20 cm. At its end, a short poem by Rabbi Moshe Zacuto beginning with the words "מעין חכמה מי שלוח".
The Divine Kabbalist Rabbi Moshe ben Rabbi Mordechai Zacuto, the Remez (ca. 1625-1697) – one of the greatest rabbis and Kabbalists in Italy and one of the leading commentators on the holy Zohar. Was born in Amsterdam, was the disciple of Rabbi Shaul Morteira and later, travelled to Poland to study Kabbalah with Rabbi Yitzchak Posno. In 1645, he moved to Venice where he served as the Rosh Yeshiva of a large yeshiva. Later he studied the Torah of the Ari with the Shadar from Safed Rabbi Binyomin Halevi, a disciple of Rabbi Chaim Vital. Since 1673, served as a Rav and Rosh Yeshiva in Mantova. The students of his yeshiva copied the writings of the holy Ari and distributed his Torah and customs. The Remez wrote Piyyutim, edited and published many Seforim and authored dozens of Sedorim on the Nigleh and the Nistar, including ‘Shut HaRemze’, ‘Igrot HaRemez’, ‘Kol HaRemez’, ‘Mikdash Melech’ and ‘Hadrat Melech’, and more.
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