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Segulah Book! First Edition of the Sacred Book Bat Ayin by Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritsh - Jerusalem, 1847 - „ושמו קראתיו בת עין מפני שעולה כשמי... עוד טעם מפני שהכנסתי בכתבים קדושת ארץ ישראל אשר עיני ה׳ אלהיך בה תמיד” Rabebinu the author in his introduction (in the Zhitmoir 1869 edition) Sefer Bat Ayin on the Torah by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritsh - first edition, Jerusalem, 1847. The Press of Rabbi Yisrael Bak.  Over the years, the Bat Ayin became a most revered Chassidic Sefer Yesod and a Segulah book. In the approbation by the Admorim of Chernovyl for the Zhitomir 1869 edition, they added that the book was a Segulah for Blessing Lechol Milei Demeitav.  Three years after the first ediiton was published in Jerusalem, an additional one was published in Zhitomir, in 1850. Appraently, the Zhitomir printer did not known that the book had already been published in Jerusalem, The Zhitmor edition was based on a different manuscript; therefore, there are variations between the editions (see: N. Ben Menachem, Kiryat Sefer, Volume 37, 1962, pp. 401-402; Besha'arei Sefer, Jerusalem 1967, pp. 49-53).  On the leaves of the book, there are many stamps of the Kloiz of the Admor of Bohush in Safed. On the flyleaf, the handwritten signature of the Gaon Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz of Safed; throughout the book, there are many  markings, notations and comments handwritten by him. On leaf 73b. alongside the verse בטח בה' ועשה טוב שכן ארץ ורעה אמונה”, he handwrote: ”בזה הפסוק קמתי משינתי בפ' בלק תשכ”ח?” [2], 125, [1] leaves. Four leaves are missing and were completed with a professional photocopy [the title page, the following leaf, leaf 125 and the leaf of pre-subscribers which is missing from many other copies]. Approx. 21 cm.  Good condition. Stamps. Glosses. Many stains and other minor blemishes.  *** The author the Admor Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritsh   (1765-1841) was the disciple of Rabbi Nachum of Chernobyl and his son, Rabbi Mordechai as well as of Rabbi Zusah of Anipoli and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. For approx. forty years, he served as Av Beit Din of Avritsh.  In 1833, he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael, settling in Safed, where he established his Beit Midrash. During the great earthquake in Safed in 1837, he warned his Chassidim during the Minchah prayer not to leave the synagogue. Then he layed down on the ground and the Chassidim held onto his belt. The entire building was destroyed yet the limited area where the Rav and his Chassidim stood remained intact.  After the earthquake, he ramained in Safed and headed the efforts to restore it. He passed away in 1841 during a Plague. By Chassidic tradiiton, after his passing, the Plague stopped.  His gravesite in Safed has become a pilgrimage site for those seeking salvation. On his Hillula, thousands come to the Tziyun, haeded by the famed mashpi'a Rabbi Elimelech Biderman.