Torah thoughts and essays from the Ba’al Shem Tov and his disciples and their disciples, by Rabbi Yehoshua Avraham of Zhitomir. Ostroh, 1821. Two parts. First edition. Especially rare book.
Torah thoughts from the Ba’al Shem Tov, the Maggid of Mezeritch, Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz, Rabbi Ephraim of Sudylkiv, author of Degel Machaneh Ephraim , Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, Rabbi Baruch of Mezhybuzh, Rabbi Aharon of Zhitomir, Rabbi Shalom of Pohrebyshche (father of Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin), and more. In the introduction, the author writes that he himself heard these Torah thoughts from his teachers.
This book is in essence the first anthology in which essays and conduct were collected from Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz, and more than half of this book is his Torah thoughts.
The author, about whom the little that is known about him is from this book’s introduction, wrote in the introduction to Part I, that due to the fire that broke out in his city, Zhitomir, and also consumed his property, he became impoverished and could not print the entire book. Some time later he printed Part II.
In subsequent editions, the book was printed only in part, with changes and omissions, and even by changing the name of the book to Pitgamin Kaddishin . Only once was it reprinted in its entirety (Pietrkov 1903). An article on the book is attached.
Stefansky, Sifrei Chassidut no. 107.
[2], 31: [2], 25 leaf, 19.5 cm.
Fine condition. Professionally restored light blemishes on the title page. Aging stains. Isolated worming perforations. New leather binding.