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Chassidic-Kabbalistic manuscript dealing with Ma’aseh Bereishit . The manuscript spans [24] pages. It is written in autograph script with glosses and revisions. Yet it is extremely clear, as if prepared for print, including the title of the sefer . The manuscript is fully complete from beginning to end, including the illustrated half-title at the beginning of the first page. [Early 1800s.]
The title of the sefer as indicated by the author is “Zeh Sefer Toldot Adam, ” from the passuk in Chumash Bereishit. The Zohar says that every person’s history is hidden in this passuk , from the day he is born until he leaves this world, per the Kabbalistic concept based in Sefer Yetzirah and cited in Chassidic works, “world, year, soul.” The author interprets the verses of Creation, which on a simple level were written about the Creation of Heaven and Earth, and he projects from these the Creation and progression of man. The broad elucidation is based on three introductions according to foundations of Kabbalistic wisdom.
While examining the manuscript, we were surprised to discover that some of the passages from the first introduction in drush are found precisely, or in a slightly different style, in the sacred Sefer Arvei Nachal on parashat Chukat ( Drush 3, Eichen edition, p. 793; refer to the photocopy). This and more, including the style of the drush , in which the author presents several difficulties and resolves them according to several ‘introductions’ as he says, “to understand this passuk , we will begin with three introductions, ” is a clear and common style found in Sefer Arvei Nachal . There are also several idiomatic phrases in this manuscript that are very common in sefarim by the author of Arvei Nachal . For example, the drush opens with “One must be precise in saying” – and this wording appears several times in Sefer Arvei Nachal . The wording “And it is known, ” appearing several times in this manuscript, is also very common in Arvei Nachal .
The Arvei Nachal was known to have ascended to the Land of Israel in 1808, but he would send his sefarim abroad to be printed. They were printed abroad after 1808. Indeed, at the beginning of the sefarim , there are forewords from leading tzaddikim abroad, such as the Ohev Yisrael of Apta and the sacred Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev. This manuscript may have been sent abroad by the Arvei Nachal to be printed, but time ran out and he did not succeed in bringing it to print, until it was just rediscovered in the previous generation. Or it may be that the Arvei Nachal may have not printed it intentionally, in light of what the mishnah says in Tractate Chagigah (2:1): “One does not darshen Ma’aseh Bereishit in pairs, nor Merkavah [even] alone.”
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the Admo”r Rabbi David Shlomo Eibeshutz .
Experts differ regarding whether the Arvei Nachal’s sefarim were written by him or by his scribe. The auction house does not determine this question, it just presents the facts that are available. Sold as is.
[24] pp, 22×17 cm. Wide margins.
Fine-very fine condition. Aging stains. Usage marks in the far margins. Elegant binding.
Large manuscript of Divrei Torah and Chassidut by Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz, one the Besh”t’s leading disciples.
Arranged according to the order of the parashiyot and holidays, and Talmudic tractates, divided into over 700 se’ifim aside from the anthology of stories.
This manuscript was transcribed before the Holocaust by Rabbi Pinchas Chodrov, grandson of Rabbi Pinchas Shapira, from a manuscript that had been in the possession of the Admo”r, the author of Imrei Emet of Gur, who received it from the estate of his father, the author of Sefat Emet of Gur.
Years later, during the Holocaust, before he was martyred al kiddush Hashem , he gave a bundle of manuscripts to a non-Jewish acquaintance of Rabbi Pinchas’s, and requested that he give it to the first Jew he comes across, and so the manuscript survived. (More material on this included).
Sefer Imrei Pinchas HaShalem tells of these events, with some differences.
The bundle with the manuscript also contained two booklets with divrei Torah by Rabbi Pinchas Chodrov. Inter alia , there are Torah insights he heard in the names of Admo”rim, including the Admo”r, the author of Imrei Emet of Gur.
Rare and important manuscript, only one in the world, which miraculously survived, illuminating the Torot of one of the progenitors of Chassidut.
Extraordinarily important.
[84], [37], [12] leaf. Approximately 20 cm.
Placed in a magnificent leather box.
She’elot U’Teshuvot Shevut Ya’akov by Rabbi Ya’akov Reisher. Halle, 1709. First edition. Pedigree copy, glosses.
One of the most important sources in responsa literature, frequently cited in works of halachic adjudication. Published in the author’s lifetime.
Owner’s signature on the title page: “HaK’ Shmuel son of the gaon Mo’ Ya’akov Yehoshua.” Rabbi Shmuel was a son of Ya’akov Yehoshua – the author of Pnei Yehoshua .
Additional early signature on the title page, unidentified, Rabbinic owners’ signatures on the flyleaf, including Rabbi Yitzchak Hirsch, ra’ava”d of Chortkov, and more. Unidentified owner’s signature on leaf 54.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of Rabbi Ya’akov Reisher and Rabbi Shmuel of Brod, fourth son of the author of Pnei Yehoshua .
Glosses and references in early script along the leaves of the sefer .
Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod 305.
[2], 81, 13 leaf. Lacking part of the last leaf.
Poor-moderate condition. Worming perforations. Aging stains. Simple binding.
Bound manuscript spanning over a hundred pages of wonderful Torah thoughts on Chumash Shemot according to the parashiyot , and “Ma’amar HaHistapkut.” Entirely handwritten and signed by the Admo”r Rabbi Ya’akov Yisrael of Kherson, author of She’erit Ya’akov . Autograph of his sefer Divrei Ya’akov , written when he was just a fourteen-year-old youth!! To the best of our knowledge, this sefer has not been printed.
The manuscript opens with an illustrated title page bearing a decorative border: ” Kitvei Kodesh – Divrei Ya’akov , 1894, Kantikoziva, Ya’akov Yisrael.” This is none other than the Admo”r Rabbi Ya’akov Yisrael of Kherson, son of the Admo”r Rabbi Pinchas of Kantikoziva. He was born in 1880 – this means that when he wrote these words, he was fourteen years old.
Content of the manuscript:
Pp. [1-3]: two title pages
Pp. 1-56: elucidations on Sefer Shemot
Pp. 61-100: ‘Likkutim Tehillim’
the final [7] leaves: ‘Ma’amar HaHistapkut’
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the Admo”r Rabbi Ya’akov Yisrael Rabinowitz of Kherson .
[1] large notepad: 11×17 cm. [109] written pages.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Light tears. New binding.
