Etz Hayim by Rabbi Chaim Vital Parts 1-3, Jerusalem 1910. Three volumes. Copy of the Kabbalistic Genius Rabbi Shaul David Chai Mualem. Owner’s handwritten registration, and owner’s stamps. In all three volumes there are many glosses on his handwritten, as well as pages with Kabbalistic sketches attached to the book by his handwritten.
Rabbi Shaul David Hai Mualem [1910-1978] Born in Baghdad. As a child he studied with Rabbi Menashe al-Katab. He was particularly known for his great strength in preserving and collecting lost manuscripts, and lost authors’ books. Over the years, he collected and collected all the holy books from his family for generations. From the days of his youth, he had stumbled to the great libraries of the rabbis of Babylon to copy their own manuscripts. Upon his arrival in Israel he brought with him his large library and many manuscripts of the wisdom of Kabbalah from previous generations. Thanks to his efforts, he had the most valuable manuscripts of Kabbalah from the writings of Rabbi Eliahu Mani, and he also dealt extensively with the manuscripts of the ben Ish Chai. From the time of his youth when he was abroad, he began to copy a few manuscripts from the rich spiritual estate of the late Rabbi Tov, and he went with him to the Land of Israel.
He later became a close associate of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ptaya, the greatest Kabbalist in Baghdad, and learned the secret from him for two consecutive years. when he arrived in Israel, most of his studies were in the presence of the elder Kabbalist Rabbi Ephraim Hacohen. With the foundation of the “Porat Yosef” Yeshivah in the New City, he joined a small and outstanding group of great kabbalists based on the recommendation of Rabbi Yehoshua Sharabani. Then his knowledge and depth in the Zohar and its commentaries were revealed in all the books of the Ari and the rashash. In those years he wrote his book “Lechem Abirim” commentary on Aidra Domanchna and Sifra Dezniuta, in the depth of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
In 1963 he established a yeshiva for the study of Kabbalah in the name of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Chaim z “l,” Yeshivat ben Ish Chai “. Where they studied mainly Kabbalah. During the Six-Day War, he dealt with the practical kabala to canceling the enemy’s power, and many stories were connected to actions that operated according to a secret in which he concealed the hidden.
The first title page is torn and missing half, the second title page is detached. Good condition
