Auction 13
Lot 268:
Commentary according to the Kabbalah by the Ari on the 22 letters of the alphabet. Composition by Rav Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi of Zorovitz, printed after his death by Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael HaLevi—the Maggid of Kremnitz, where the manuscripts of the author went after his death. Stefanski Chassidut 535. Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac ben Rabbi Yaakov HaLevi (1735-1783) was a mystical, Kabbalist tsaddik who served as the shochet and schoolteacher in Zorovitz, net to Przemysl—where it is claimed that the Ba’al Shem Tov would travel to visit him and together they would meet about mysticism. He was one of the rabbis of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the Yismach Moshe. It is told that when he was still young, he still suddenly called on a clear day for the members of the hevra kadisha and told them that his end was night, and he asked them to copy for him his many writings on Kabbalah before clothing him in shrouds. Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac lay on the ground as around 100 students sat and copied his holy writings, until his face changed and his eyes closed of their own accord. The copies were buried in his grave and his manuscripts came to the Maggid of Kremnitz, who printed this book and others, “Yesod Yitzhak,” and “Otiyot d’Rabbi Yitzhak.” Original binding is defective, water stains and light moth damage. Signatures of ownership “Leib Horowitz.”
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