Auction 83 - Part I - Rare and Important Items
Or HaChochmah – Part I – Łaszczów, 1815 – First Edition – Segulah for Easy Birth
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Or HaChochmah, Chassidic and kabbalistic essays on the Torah portions, Part I, on Bereshit and Shemot, by the kabbalist R. Uri Feivel of Krisnipoli (Chervonohgrad) and Dubienka. Łaszczów, [1815]. First edition. With many approbations, including approbations of the Chozeh of Lublin and Rebbe Tzvi Aryeh of Olik.
Segulah for an easy birth. R. Moshe Tzvi Landau of Kleinwardein writes in his work "Shulchan Melachim" on the laws pertaining to birthing mothers: "It has already become a widespread custom to place a book wrapped in cloth beneath the head of the woman in labor, customarily the holy book Noam Elimelech and the holy book Or HaChochmah" (this is quoted in halachic literature). It is also reported that R. Yeshaya Zilberstein of Waitzen would send a copy of Or HaChochmah to women in labor, to place beneath their pillow as a segulah for an easy birth
The author, the kabbalist R. Uri Feivel of Krisnipoli and Dubienka (d. between 1804-1808), was a close disciple of R. Kehat of Werish, who was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov. R. Uri Feivel's son, in his description of his father in the foreword to this book, recalls him as a prolific author who also wrote a composition on the Torah consisting of 15 explanations for each verse, as well as works on the Five Megillot, Tikunei Zohar, Idrot, Sifra DeTzniuta, Sefer Yetzira, "awesome, concealed and impenetrable commentaries", yet all were destroyed in a fire. R. Meir, Rabbi of Brody, describes the author in his approbation: "He never departed from the tent of Torah, delving into its revealed and hidden realms, and he feared G-d out of love; most of his knowledge and study pertained to Kabbalah".
[2], 76; 46 leaves (misfoliation). 23.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear (dark stains to some leaves). Marginal open tears to first leaves, and open tears affecting text in several other places, repaired with paper. Significant worming to most leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper. Two detached leaves. Some leaves may have been supplied from other copies. Ownership inscriptions and signatures. New binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 23.
Segulah for an easy birth. R. Moshe Tzvi Landau of Kleinwardein writes in his work "Shulchan Melachim" on the laws pertaining to birthing mothers: "It has already become a widespread custom to place a book wrapped in cloth beneath the head of the woman in labor, customarily the holy book Noam Elimelech and the holy book Or HaChochmah" (this is quoted in halachic literature). It is also reported that R. Yeshaya Zilberstein of Waitzen would send a copy of Or HaChochmah to women in labor, to place beneath their pillow as a segulah for an easy birth
The author, the kabbalist R. Uri Feivel of Krisnipoli and Dubienka (d. between 1804-1808), was a close disciple of R. Kehat of Werish, who was a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov. R. Uri Feivel's son, in his description of his father in the foreword to this book, recalls him as a prolific author who also wrote a composition on the Torah consisting of 15 explanations for each verse, as well as works on the Five Megillot, Tikunei Zohar, Idrot, Sifra DeTzniuta, Sefer Yetzira, "awesome, concealed and impenetrable commentaries", yet all were destroyed in a fire. R. Meir, Rabbi of Brody, describes the author in his approbation: "He never departed from the tent of Torah, delving into its revealed and hidden realms, and he feared G-d out of love; most of his knowledge and study pertained to Kabbalah".
[2], 76; 46 leaves (misfoliation). 23.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains and wear (dark stains to some leaves). Marginal open tears to first leaves, and open tears affecting text in several other places, repaired with paper. Significant worming to most leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper. Two detached leaves. Some leaves may have been supplied from other copies. Ownership inscriptions and signatures. New binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 23.
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