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A Segulah Volume Printed by the Holy Rebbe of Bixad. - Sefer Simchat Yom Tov, on Tractate Beitzah, by the Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Leib Tzinz (the Mahara”l Tzinz). Published by the holy Rebbi Eliezer Fisch of Bixad. Seini (Romania): Jacob Wieder Press, 1923. With highly signific ant approbations from the holy Rabbi Shaul Brach, who writes: ”May the merit of the author stand for all those who assist in this publication, as he declared in his testament and as is also recorded on the inscription upon his holy grave. ” Also with approbations from the holy Rabbi Eliezer David Greenwald and the holy Rebbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum. The endpapers bear the stamps of the Gaon Rabbi Azriel Yehuda Lebowitz, Av Beit Din of Vienna and Rosh Yeshivah of Hőgyész–Hajdúhadház. The publisher, the Rebbe Eliezer Fisch of Bixad (Biksad) (1880–1944), was renowned as a miracle worker and saintly leader. A disciple of Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda Leib of Interdam, one of the foremost disciples of the author of Divrei Chaim of Sanz, he settled after his marriage in Sighet, where he studied in partnership with the sons of Rebbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, author of Kedushat Yom Tov: at night with Rebbi Chaim Tzvi Teitelbaum, author of Etzei Chaim, and during the day with Rebbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the future Satmar Rebbe. He later served as dayan and head of the yeshivah in Nyírbogdány before becoming rabbi of Bixad, where he transferred his yeshivah. In 1920 he settled in Satmar, where he trained many disciples and traveled extensively among Jewish communities, establishing mikva'ot and encouraging the study of the Talmud and Mishnah. He maintained a close friendship with the Satmar Rebbe, who, upon returning from an official reception for the King of Romania in 1936, stopped at the entrance to Rabbi Eliezer's home and declared: ”I have come from one king to another King—for who are the kings? The Rabbis!” In his later years he adopted a life of extraordinary asceticism, engaging in frequent fasts while greatly limiting both his eating and speech. He was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944 Hyd. At a certain stage, Rebbi Eliezer undertook the publication of the writings of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Tzinz, who had famously promised before his passing: ”Whoever endeavors to publish my seforim, I shall serve as his advocate in Heaven, if he is worthy.” Accordingly, in his approbation, Rabbi Eliezer David Greenwald, author of Keren LeDavid and Av Beit Din of Satmar, writes: ”May the merit of the holy author, who promised in his testament that he would intercede on behalf of those who labor to bring his Torah novellae to light—as it has long been known that whatever he foretold and decreed came to pass—protect the publisher... May they merit to raise their children with abundant joy and happiness, to see children and grandchildren like flourishing saplings and olive shoots, with long life, pleasant years, health and wholeness. May no cloud ever rest upon them, but only gladness and rejoicing... And may all who assist him be granted every manner of salvation, in body and soul, together with abundant blessing and success.” 88 leaves. 32.4 cm.