The Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Sidbon of Tunisia
Shaar Ruach Hakodesh
with Yiras Hashem Commentary
Tunisia, (1800)
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Shaar Ruach Hakodesh is the seventh “gate” taught by Rabbi Chaim Vital based on the lessons gleaned from the Arizal Hakadosh. This “Gate of Ruach Hakodesh” was illuminated by the present Yiras Hashem commentary, which was authored by the great kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Sidbon of Tunisia.
This commentary was first printed by the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Kalamaro, in the Jerusalem 1874 edition of Shaar Ruach Hakodesh.
There is no other known complete handwritten manuscript of this sefer!
Rabbi Yosef Sidbon was famous for studying the Kavanos of the Rashash in great depth, On leaf 115a of the manuscript, he inscribes:
“For his zt”l’s words were given to Moshe Rabbeinu on Sinai.”
The holy kabbalist
Rabbi Yosef Sidbon was one of the great Tunisian kabbalists in the 18th century. The present essay was authored in the year 1780. During this period of time, there was a select group of kabbalists in Tunisia who dispatched their questions to the Rashash in what became known as the “Sheilot Chachmei Hamaarav, Questions of the Western Sages” and constitutes the basis of sefer Nahar Shalom. One of the esteemed members of this group of kabbalists was Rabbi Yosef Sidbon. In the present manuscript, Rabbi Yosef mentions the Rashash’s written replies that he dispatched to Tunisia.
neat script with variations from the printed version.
Tunisia, (1800). 158 leaves. Page size: 22×16 cm. Miniscule holes in margins. Simple half-leather binding.
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