Ma’amar Mordechai – Chassidic and Kabbalistic articles on the order of the Torah portions and on festivals by Rabbi Mordechai Letnir. Lemberg, 1877. First edition.
The author was a disciple of the Chozeh of Lublin, the maggid of Kozhnitz, and of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Zhidichov, considered one of his most prominent disciples in Kabbalistic wisdom. He served as Admo”r of Drohovitch. With approbations from the Chassidic leaders of the generation. Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac of Zhidichov writes that the author was considered by Uncle Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Zhidichov to be the apple of his eye, beloved to him as his own sons and that he was expert in Kabbalistic wisdom. Also from Rabbi Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum, Rabbi Avraham Ya’akov of Sadigura, and more.
With a lengthy foreword from the author’s son who writes his father’s life story. In the foreword, he writes about a chilling event that occurred when his father was at the Chozeh of Lublin’s during the Torah portion of the rebuke [התוכחה]. Refer to Tzvi LaTzaddik pp. 74-76.
On leaves 99-100 there is an exchange of Kabbalistic correspondence between Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Zhidichov and the author. In the Torah portion Acharei Mot, on leaves 42-43, there is a lengthy Kabbalistic letter printed with an elucidation of lofty words from the Ohr HaChaim, indicating at the beginning of the portion that these words can only be understood with Divine inspiration.
Stefansky Chassidut 319.
[4], 112, 24 cm.
Fine-very fine condition, dismantled binding.