Sefer Kol Simcha, novellae on the Torah, Likutim and Talmudic novellae, by the holy Admor Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Pershischa, edited by the grandsons of the holy Rav – first edition, Breslov. The year of printing was not noted on the title page; however, according to the approbations, it was printed in 1859. [1], 58, 28, [1] leaves. Stefansky Chassidut 520.
In the National Library, the book appears in the Rare Book Collection.
On verso of the title page, approbations by Rabbi Yitzchak meir Alter of Ger author of Chidushei HaRim and the Gaon Rabbi Yeshaya Muscat of Prague (the son-in-law of Rabbi Yitzchak of Radvil, the son of the Maggid of Zlotchov).
According to Gershom Scholem, the author is Rabbi Alexander Zusha Av Beit Din of Plock, who wrote the Torot of Rabbeinu (author of Sefer Yakar Mipaz) and to which the letter printed on the last leaf of the book was sent. The famed bibliographer also wrote that the printer’s name here (Hersch Sulzbach) was faked and according to him, it was printed in Warsaw in 1859, a better edition from a copying of a manuscript – Piotrkow 1903, by Aharon Walden.
Detached front board and gathering. Wide margins. Bright paper. Stains. Good overall condition.
On leaf 9, a double ownership notation:
שייך לישראל גאסטרא/זעוויץ כ"ץ נ"י בתורה ובמעשים טובים אמן". This notation also appears between leaves 14-22 of the first pagination. In addition, many foreign notations on the flyleaves and one Hebrew one: "זה הקול שמחה שייך להחתן למי שקנה מי קנה עיין דף כ"ז ע"א". Indeed, on this leaf (of the first pagination) there is an additional ownership signature:
"החתן רפאל יוסף בן משה יצחק מאנדיל צווייג".
Inside the book, many handwritten comments and corrections, some of them in square script.
