Bidspirit auction | Kabbalah: Taharat HaKodesh, Bialozerka, 1806.

Kabbalah: Taharat HaKodesh, Bialozerka, 1806. Copy of the Rabbis of the Silberman Family. - Sefer Taharat HaKodesh. Kabbalistic practices and ethical teachings, in two parts, by Rabbi Binyamin Wolf. Bialozerka, 1806. This sefer served as a foundational source for many later works on personal conduct and prayer intentions (kavanot). It is one of only three Hebrew seforim ever printed in Bialozerka (Ukraine), at a printing house established by the heirs of Rabbi Moshe, the printer of Minkovitz. (See: A. Yaari, The Hebrew Press in Minkovitz, Kiryat Sefer, Vol. 19, 1942-1943, p. 268). With an approbation from the holy Rebbi Aryeh Yehuda Leib ben Rabbi Shalom Segal of Zbarazh and Volochysk, who signed ”Going and traveling to the Holy Land.” This approbation was granted to the printer upon the establishment of the press in Bialozerka. Rebbi Aryeh Yehuda Leib of Volochysk a disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch, was one of the great Torah and Hasidic leaders of his generation. He was connected by marriage to the Chozeh of Lublin and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. In his later years, in 1805, he immigrated to the Land of Israel with his family and was buried in Safed in 1813, in the Cave of the Righteous, located between the tombs of the Arizal and Rabbi Yosef Karo. Stamps of Rabbi Refael Silberman (1839-1918), born in Uman and settled in Tzefas succeeding his father Rabbi Mordechai as Dayan and in 1872 as Rabbi of the Ashkenazim of the town. Respected by both Jews and Arabs. Rabbi of Uman, settled in Eretz Yisrael in 1850 and joined the Beth Din of Rabbi Shmuel Heller in Tzefas, and the Beth Din in Teverya. Ancestor of the Silberman – Kaplan rabbinical family of Tzefas. Signatures and stamps of Rabbi Avraham Yehuda Leib Zilberman (1889-1948) was the Chief Rabbi of Safed for 30 years, grandson of Rabbi Refael Zilberman, who served as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazim of Safed as well. He continued his family tradition of serving as the delegates of Admorei Boyan to light the bonfire at Rashbi’s grave on Lag BaOmer. [4], 66, 58 leaves. 21.4 cm.