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Lot 132:
Sefer Noam Elimelech, with Likutei Shoshana and IgeretHaKodesh, by Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhansk, one of the most important fundamental figures in Hasidism. An edition published by the nephew of Rabbeinu, Rabbi Yisrael Avraham Av Beit Din of Tsarni-Ostrai, the son of Rabbi Zusha of Annipoli – third edition printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira in Slavita 1794. Stepansky Hassidism, No. 376. Partially missing copy. The original is supposed to have 150 pages. This copy is missing: the title page and the next four pages, and the pages: 8, 38, 39, 53, 54, 62, 63, 75, 84, 85, 125 until the end (in total, missing the title page and 40 pages). Some pages have been professionally filled in. Moth holes and various professionally restored tears, some with minor text damages. Wrapped in a new cover. Unique characteristics of this edition: Beyond the title, three important approbations by the Chasidic masters: the approbation of Rabbi Ya’akov Shimshon of Shpytovka (who recalls with his consent the printer Rabbi Moshe Shapira: “The ultimate sage Rabbi Moshe benan of sages of Buchenas Kadisha of Pinchas”); The approbation of Rabbi ZushaManipoli, father of the publisher and brother of the author (this agreement was first printed in this edition, whereas in the first edition of the “Na’am Elimelech” printed in Lemberg, Rabbi Zusha is not one of the approves). After the approbations, the author’s son, Rabbi Elazar Weissblum, was inscribed in his words, saying: “… for the sake of honor, Your great name shall be fulfilled, and all the blessings that are always on the honor of my father will be fulfilled, at any time, and to annul them from bad decrees in his faithful prayer in the surrender of his soul …”[This introduction was omitted in some of the following editions.] In the book “OhelShlomo” for the history of the Admor Rabbi Shlomo of Radomsk (part 2, Pietrekov, 1935, p. 34), he found that this introduction was particularly enjoyed of the Admor of TiferetShlomo of Radomsk, Noam Elimelech. “The Rebbe even turned to the printers and asked them to print the book according to the Slavita printing press in which this introduction appears].
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