Auction 62
Lot 204:
Kuntres Pkudat Hamelech two sections. Interesting composition containing Pilpulim on the words of the Mishneh Lamelech on the Rambam. By Rabbi Yisrael Nachman of Safed, the son of Rabbi Yosef of Drohobych, a disciple of the Besht (see below). Section II is a eulogy for the Gaon Rabbi Meshullam Igra who was Av Beit Din of Tismenitz, Stanislav and Pressburg. The author writes on the title page that he had titled it Pkudat Hamelech like the first section, since the title befits this section as well. Containing "the (lengthy) introduction of the author, with an interpretation of biblical verses and Ma’amarim by the Sages" and a precious commentary on difficult verses of the book of Yirmiyahi (9) integrated with fine proverbs.
One of the few Chassidic books that were printed in the Balkan. In Livorno itself, only four Chassidic books were printed, all of them authored by the above Rabbi Yisrael Nachman. First edition – Livorno, 1804. [7], 36, [1], 52 leaves. leaves 29-36 contain a question "that I was asked by … Rabbi Avraham (ben Rabbi Massud) Lulu when I was passing through Livorno … and my response alongside it". Mispagination. After leaf 24, leaves 29-36, 25-27 [i.e. 28] appear. At the top of leaf 25, a, four lines that are similar to 24, a. An additional title page for the section section, Stefansky Chassidut 476. In the National Library, the book appears in the Rare Book Collection and apparently, it does not have a complete copy. Approbation by the rabbis of Livorno, Florence and Trieste.
The author Rabbi Yisrael Nachman ben Rabbi Yosef of Drohobych. At first, served as Av Beit Din of several communities in Poland and then as Dayan in Ostrohe and a Maggid Meisharim there. Later he became Av Beit Din of Shumande in Hungary and from there, immigrated to the Holy Land, settling in Safed. On the way to Eretz Yisrael, he passed through Livorno and was in contact with the Chida. In his books, the Chida writes things he had heard from him in the name of his father Rabbi Yosef of Drohobych, which he heard from the Besht, as well as information about his greatness and the Chassidic Movement in general.
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