Lot 200
Tavnit Hechal – Amsterdam, 1650 – Signatures of Rabbi Shalom Mizrachi Sharabi – The Rashash
Tavnit Hechal, plan of the Temple and its utensils, by R. Yaakov Yehuda Aryeh Leon-Templo. Amsterdam: Yehuda son of Mordechai and Shmuel son of Moshe HaLevi, [1650].
Signature in Sephardic script on the title page: "Shalom Mizrachi Sharabi". Additional signatures with his first name only, "Shalom", on leaves 4 [i.e. 3] and 5. These are the signatures of the prominent kabbalist – the Rashash.
R. Shalom Mizrachi Sharabi, the Rashash (1720-1777), foremost Yemenite Torah scholar, dean of the Beit El yeshiva for kabbalists in Jerusalem.
38 leaves. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains. Worming. Open tears to title page, affecting border, repaired in part. New binding.
Provenance: Sassoon Family Collection.
