Sefer Nishmat Adam

Aaron Samuel ben Moses Shalom. Sefer Nishmat Adam. Piotrkow: Henikh Wolf Felman, 1911. First edition. Small Quarto. 131pp. Half quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards and decorative edges. Beautiful decorated title page with inserted short title in Russian. A book about Jewish eschatology and the different ways of elevating the soul. With a lot of references to the prophets and to the Zohar (The kabbalistic book of Splendor). The author describes the sould of men towards perfection. The love of God, which needs to lead to fear of God. The necessity of work towards peace even with the deceased. One question is asked over and over again: For whom the world was created? – The author finds several answers to this question within the general goal of reaching nobility of the soul. Text in Hebrew (some Rashi script). Binding with some stains, wear along bumped edges, decorative paper cut at front cover, spine with some tearing and rubbing at end cover. Front cover detached from block. Inked noteand creasing along inner margin of front endpaper. Inked note on title page with some foxing. Age-toning through block. Some staining at back of last page, free endpaper and inside cover page. Starting at rear cover page. Binding in overall fair, interior in overall good to good+ condition. fair to g+. Hardcover. (22740) $75