“Yesod Yitzchak.” Kabbalistic discourses on circumcision and study on the night before the circumcision by the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Shochet from Zurowica with commendation by author of “K’zot HaChoshen.” Zolkwa 1810.
[1] 69 pg. 22 c”m.
At the end of the book is the kuntras “Halichot Olam” – a collection of admonitions that begin with the phrase ”One should always take care…”
Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Shochet of Zurowica was born in 1735 and died before age 50 in1783. He was a ritual slaughterer in the village of Zurowica near Premishlan. Over time he became known as a “hidden tzadik, ” and sages of the time claimed that when he slaughtered animals he knew how to do a tikkun for the soul that had been reincarnated into the animal. The commendations of the book are lavish in praise of him as a hidden tzadik and great kabbalist. Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot writes “A holy, wise man of G-d, knowledgeable in kabbalist secrets, humble in his ways, there is no one more righteous in this day….it is his way to always be unassuming.”
The author commanded his writings be placed with him in his grave and when the author of “Yismach Moshe” heard this, he quickly ordered that all the writings be copied – see the preface by the publisher of “Raza Mehemana” [Lemberg 1790]. The book was published by Avraham Ze’ev according to manuscripts found in the gniza of the famous Magid, Rabbi Yaakov Israel of Kremnitz, author of “Shevet M’Yisrael.”
At the beginning of the book are important commendations, the rarest of which is that by, the author of “K’zot HaChoshen” who is almost unknown for giving approbations. On the title page is the signature of Rabbi David Hellinger of Liska and afterwards at krestir, about whom Rabbi Yishayale of Krestir said he was “A guardian of the city” (see “Batei Avot, ” pg. 375), and also the signature of his son-in-law Rabbi Moshe Yosef Friedlander.
The binding and the first two pages are shaky. Moderate condition. Very rare.
Chassidut Stefanski # 233.