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Sefer Vecherev Pipiyot - a Kabbalistic Book with ”Asterisks” Similar to Those of the Book the Noam Elimelech - First Edition that was Printed by the Same Printery. Lviv, [1786]. - Sefer Vecherev Pipiyot - Ketem Paz and Glilei Zahav, a Kabbalistic commentary on Keri'at Shema and the ”explicit” Shemot Kodesh implied by it - a 42-letters-name and a 72-letters-name, by Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi, one of the leading Mekubalim of the Kloiz of Brod.  This book was printed at the printing house of Rabbi Shlomo Yaris (Rappaport), which in 1788 printed the sacred book the Noam Elimelech. By most accounts, the workers of the printery were sacred men, of the 36 hidden Tzaddikim on which the world is based [see Rabbi B. Landau, Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, Jerusalem, 1963, p. 311, who introduces an oral tradition (in the name of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Halberstam)].  Appearing in this book are those famed ”asterisks” that were printed also in the book Noam Elimelech - printed by Rabbi Shlomo Yaris approximately a year after the printing of this book. Chassidic tradition attached much importance to these asterisks. The scholar R. Chaim Lieberman writes about them in his article on the first edition of the Noam Elimelech (Ohel Rachel, Section I, New York 1980, p. 63), stating that the Chassidim of Poland call this edition the Noam Elimelech with Asterisks and it means much to them since they attribute Kabbalistic secrets to these asterisks. In the book Hadrat Kodesh, about the history of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Freund (the Rav of Nasaud; Jerusalem 1960, p. 47), it is written in his name: ”Rabbeinu said there was a secret in the asterisks that were printed in the first edition of the Noam Elimelech and it is said that Rabbi Elazar [the Noam Elimelech's son] had a Giluy Eliyahu when he wrote and he added an asterisk there. It is also said that the first printers were of the 36 hidden Tzaddikim...”. As stated, these asterisks appear in this book as well, as they do in other books printed by Rabbi Shlomo Yaris (see Chaim Lieberman's article).  At the beginning of the book, many approbations by the rabbis of Galicia and the sages of the Kloiz of Brod praising the author's Kabbalistic wisdom and the fact that he was a leading disciple of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Sanzer one of the leading sages of the Kloiz of Brod.  On the title page there is a handwritten notation in a foreign language. On the second leaf, there is a signature and stamp of the censor Getzil Iztkovich. Varied handwritten notations on the last leaf and the preceding guard leaf.  Lviv, [1786]. Rabbi Shlomo Yaris Press.  [2], 18 leaves; 36, [1] leaves. 21 cm. Very good condition. Some aging stains. New elegant leather binding.  Fine and complete copy of a rare Kabbalistic book that was printed by the same sacred printery that printed the Noam Elimelech with the same asterisks that appear in the Noam Elimelech.