“Sefer HaYetzira.” With commentaries by the Raba”d. the Rasa”g, The Ramban, The Rokach, Rabbi Moshe Botarel, and this edition for the first time included commentary by the Gr”a. Published by his student Rabi Menachem Mendel of Shklov. Horodno, Yechezkiel ben Moshe and Associates, 1806.
72 leaves. 20 cm.
The first book of Kabbala by the Gr”a printed. Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov immigrated to Israel and founded the Ashkenazi neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Signatures not deciphered. Tens of glosses in the margins. At the end of the book two blue pages with tables of issues relating to the mystic secrets “Pnim V’Achor” by the Gr”a are pasted in.
New binding. Age signs, Margins are frayed on a number of pages. Medium condition.
Winograd. Books of h te Gr”a, number 682. Yosef Avivi, Kabbalat HaGr”a, Jerusalem 1992, pg. 14.