Auction 44

Segulah book: “Without a doubt any who buys this holy book will have it for preservation in his home.” Sefer HaPliya by Rabbi Avigdor Kera of Prague—Przmyslan 1883. Copy with yichus.

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Sefer HaPliya on Genesis, kabbalistic droshim “and the Ari already testified that it is true kabbalah, everything in it is said with ruach hakodesh” (from the approbation of Rabbi Moshe of Zamosc), published anonymously with 10 ma’amarim attributed to Rabbi Avigdor Kera of Prague.


Considered a segula work whose power is testified by Rabbi Aharon Halberstam, the son of the Divri Haim of Zans: “It is accepted among us that it is a segulah to have this in one’s home.” Rabbi Eliyahu Horshovsky of Drohovitz writes: “Take this book into one’s home and it will be great preservation from everything…” The Admor Rabbi Mordechai Shraga of Husiatyn ordered that it be written: “Without a doubt any who buys this holy book will have it for preservation in his home.”


[4], 84, 74 leaves. Some copies have subscriber pages at the end of the book. Notes and emphases from a later period. Half-calf binding partially detached.

The book has stamps of Rabbi Yerachmiel Yosef Birdman of Lalov, son of the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Mendel of Lalov.