Kabbalah · R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (Ramchal) · 18th c. · Padua · Autograph · Correspondence · Lurianic Kabbalah · Italian Semi-Cursive

כתבי הרמח״ל — אגרות בכתב יד קדשו

Letters from the Ramchal — 131 autograph items, Italy 1735

Italy, 1735 · The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary — MS 8520a

A bound collection of 131 letters in the Ramchal's own hand — R' Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707–1747) — together with related correspondence to him, written in an Italian Hebrew semi-cursive script in 1735. The letters span the years of the Ramchal's most intense kabbalistic activity and the controversy that followed it: his relationship with his teacher R' Yeshayahu Bassan in Padua, his circle of disciples and their study of his Adir BaMarom and Klach Pitchei Chochmah, and the responses to his work coming from rabbinic authorities across Italy and beyond. A single related item — an Eser Sefirot diagram bound with a letter to R' Yeshayahu Bassan explaining its construction — was at some point removed from this collection; it is the Ilan HaPartsufim broadside, also viewable elsewhere in this library. Held at The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary (MS 8520a). A downloadable PDF facsimile is also available.