Bidspirit auction | Especially Fine Copy! Chassidic Segulah

Especially Fine Copy! Chassidic Segulah Book: Mamar Mordechai for Protection against Fire - First Edition - Lemberg, 1877 - Sefer Mamar Mordechai , ”wonderful work on the Torah and nice Drushim on Mitzvat Tefillin and the Mo'adot...Chidushim and Remazim and deep secrets...”. The work of the Gaon Rabbi Mordecgai of Drohobych ”known by all as Reb Mordechai Letnir” - a leading disicple of the Chozeh of Lublin and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Ziditchov.  First edition. Edited by the author's grandson Mordechai David Guttesman, at the Press of Rabbi Yaako vMeshulam Nick, Lemberg, 1877. Stefansky Chassidut 319. [4], 112 leaves. Two title pages - the first of them extremely rare and not in most known copies! Especially fine copy. Fine new binding. Minor stains and blemishes. The margins of leaves 63-64 are slightly shorter than the other ones. Pen notation of the year of printing on the title page and additional pen markings throughout the book - handwritten by the Admor Rabbi Alter Eliezer Kahana of Spinka-Ziditchov - who was the owner of thsi book.  On leaf 111b, a gloss in ancient script with a Chassidic-Kabbalistic Chidush. At its end, the writer wrote: ”ולא אאמין אשר נשמט זאת מהמחבר הגדול הזה אך המעתיקים השמיטוהו” [I cannot believe that the great writer had omitted this it was probably omitted by the copyists]. We did not manage to identify the writer's identity.  Segulah to Survive Fire and for Parnasah and Longevity In his foreword to the book, the author's son Rabbi Avraham Yaakov writes: ”And it is protection to protect him from the damage of fire” . He recalls a tale about the copyist of the book, Rabbi Avraham Meir Shochet Uvodek of Skulie. A fire broke out in his home and had already reached the walls ”and he held this sacred book in his hand and trusted the piety of my father and was rescued from the fire...” . The author's son adds a blessing for Parnasah and longevity to those who purcahse the book: ואסיים בצוות ברכתי אליכם ידידים הקונים הספר וברך אתכם אלקים בכל טוב וימלא אסמיכם דשן וירבה ימיכם ושנותיכם בטוב... ובזה ייטיב ד' לכם בזה ובבא” . Approbations The book was approbated by leading contemporary Chassidic rabbis, the Admorim Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac if Ziditchov and Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac of Komarno, the Yitav lev of Sighet, Rabbi Shimon Yaakov of Kosov and Rabbi Eliyahu of Drohobych and on behalf of the admorim Rabbi Avarahm Yaakov I of Sadigura, Rabbi David Moshe of Chrotekov and Rabbi Menachem Mendel the Tzemach Tzaddik of Vizhnitz.  At the end of the book, a list of pre-subscribers with many names of contemporary Tzaddikim and Chassidim including Rabbi Hillel of Kolomyia, Rabbi Elezer Zvi of Komarno, Rabbi Yissachat berish of Vertzky, Rabbi Shmuel Zvi of Munkatch - the father of the Imrei Yosef of Spinka and more.