Ahavat Hash-m. Livorno, 1871. Signature of Kabbalist Rabbi Shaul Katzin, and Glosses.

Ahavat Hash-m. Livorno, 1871. Signature of Kabbalist Rabbi Shaul Katzin, and Glosses.

Ahavat Hash-m - elucidation on the Idra Zuta by Rabbi Yosef Sadbon. Livorno, 1871. First edition. Kabbalist Rabbi Shaul Katzin's owner's signatures.

With the Idra text. Multiple approbations from rabbis of Tunisia at the beginning of the book. The title page bears Rabbi Shaul Katzin's handwritten signature. There is also a lengthy gloss as well as several corrections in the body of the book.

The author Rabbi Yosef Sadbon was one of the leading Kabbalistic rabbis in Tunisia in the late 18th century. During his time, Kabbalistic study was widespread in Tunisia. There was a group of great Kabbalists called 'Kat HaMekubalim, ' about whom the Chid"a, ztz"l, wrote in his book Ma'agal Tov. Rabbi Yosef Sadbon was one of them. Aside from this book before us, Rabbi Yosef Sadbon authored other works on Kabbalistic wisdom: Yir'at Hash-m and Milchemet Hash-m. Rabbi Yosef is mentioned in a number of books dealing with Kabbalistic doctrine - the most well-known of them being the book Otzrot Chaim by Rabbi Chaim Vital ztz"l (page 12b, page 23a, page 27a), as well as in Idra Rabba Kaddisha by Rabbi Shlomo HaKohen (Jerusalem, 1976) who mentions this book,  Ahavat Hash-m, in his preface. (Refer to Malchei Tarshish, 1986, pp. 219-221).

Rabbi Shaul Katzin-Meutak [1864-1917] was an Aleppo sage. He ascended to Hebron with his father, where he studied with Rabbi Eliyahu Manne. He moved to Jerusalem where he became one of the students at Beit El, and later on one of sages at Rechovot HaNahar. He authored Pri Tzaddik (Jerusalem, 1938) and Ziv HaZohar as well as responsa, novellae, and commentaries. (For more about him, refer to LaKedoshim Asher Ba'Are"tz, pp. 165-166.) His grandson Chacham Shaul Katzin was the rabbi of the Halabi community of New York, one of the wealthiest Jewish communities in the world.

[5], 122 leaves, 20 cm.

Very fine condition.