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Jewish printed books  Eshel Avraham by Mordechai ben Yehudah Leib Ashkenazi, Fürth, 1701

This text was prepared by William Gross:

Only edition of this introductory work to Eshel Avraham by R. Mordecai ben Judah Leib Ashkenazi. Eshel Avraham is a large format book (Fuerth, 1701) explaining rabbinic sayings and interpretations, much from the Zohar, on Bereshit and Shemot, the ten Sephirot and other kabbalistic concepts by R. Ashkenazi, which he learned from his teacher, R. Abraham Revigo. Hakdamat Sefer Eshel Avraham preceded Eshel Avraham and, in contrast to the larger work, is in a small format. On the title page R. Ashkenazi explains that in Eshel Avraham he has built a kabbalistic work as a wall. Because he has observed that not every one is capable of understanding it he has determined, for the public good, to abbreviate it in this introduction, written in a clear language. There is an introduction on the verso of the title page, followed by the text in a single column in rabbinic type.
R. Mordecai ben Judah Leib Ashkenazi was a Dutch rabbi, residing in Amsterdam in the early part of the seventeenth century. He wrote also Mikveh Yisrael, a treatise on circumcision in Judæo-German, which appeared in 1710 with David of Lida’s Sod Ha-Shem appended.