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Facsimile “Bnei Brak 1976” Free Shipping and Returns (USA)
The image shows the title page of the Hebrew book ספר מזבח הזהב (Sefer Mizbeiach HaZahav), a classic kabbalistic and halachic commentary regarding the incense offering (Pittum HaKetoret). It was written by Rabbi Shlomo ben Mordechai of Mezritch, and this specific edition was printed in Bnei Brak in the Hebrew year תשל”ו (1976) as a facsimile reproduction of the original 1602 Basel printing.
By Rabbi Shlomo Ben Mordechai Of Mezritsh. Talmid Of Maharshal.Detailed Manual Of How To Sacrifice Incense During A Plague And Remove All The Evil Forces
Polish rabbi; died 1609. He was a pupil of Solomon Luria and was rabbi of Meseritz and Ostrog, holding also some rabbinical position in Lemberg. He is referred to as “R. Shelomtzi, the pupil of Maharshal” in a manuscript work which was in the hands of Solomon Margolioth of Brody. He was the author of “Mizbaḥ ha-Zahab,” an explanation of a Talmudical passage on the holy incense (Basel, 1602). A work by him named “Seder Giṭṭin” is referred to in the above-mentioned manuscript.
Bibliography:
Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 726;
Buber, Anshe Shem, p. 204, Cracow, 1895;
Lewinstein, Dor we-Dor we-Doreshaw, p. 119, Warsaw, 1899.
מזבח הזהב
מחבר שלמה בן מרדכי, ממזריץ’
Title Mizbeiach haZohov
Author Shlomo bar Mordechai MiMezritch

























