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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.