Auction 75
Lot 95:
Sefer Shivchei Baal Shem Tov, the famed and ancient work about Rabbeinu Or Shivat Hayamim Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov. "Printed in fine fonts on white paper with black ink…". The entire work is translated here into Yiddish.
Bibliographically unrecorded
Published by the Naggid Rabbi Mordechai ben Rabbi Avraham Dov at the printery of the Neggidim Rabbi Moshe Zelig Tzimond and Rabbi Yehuda Veksler – Jassy, 1843. [32] leaves. It should be noted that this edition appears neither in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book nor in the National Library. It is also not mentioned in the list of Yitzchak Raphael on Shivchei HaBaal Shem Tov (in Areshet II, pp. 358-377). We know of a single additional copy that was ever auctioned (Kedem auction 33 – 28.8.13 lot. 111).
Elegant new binding. Professional restoration. Stains and considerable wear due to usage. Candle drippings: possibly the result of the book being read by a mother to her children as a bedtime story? Fair-good overall condition.
Segulah for Yeshu’ah and Refu’ah and against a fever
"Know that it has been revealed to me by Heaven that telling Shivchei HaBaal Shem Tov is a Segulah for Yeshu’ah. Shivchei HaBaal Shem Tov is the second section of Tehillim and my advice to all generations is that when a Jewish man falls ill G-d forbid, to read to him Sipurei Tzaddikim… as was the custom with Rabbeinu [Rabbi Yissachar Berish of Volbrozh author of the Avodat Yissachar] until he completely recovered, he was daily read from Shivchei HaBaal Shem Tov, Kehal Chassidim and more" (Ohel Yissachar chapter 8).
"One of the sons of the Tzemach Tzeddek had a fever and the Admor came to visit him and asked why he was not read from Shichei HaBaal Shem Tov since it was a good Segulah for someone with fever" (Reshimot Devarim I by Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik pp. 140-141).
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