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Segulah for Salvation — Nachalas Tzvi, together with Kan Meforeshes on Tractate Kinnim. First edition. Lemberg, 1873. - Nachalas Tzvi, containing four sections: two by the wonder-working gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliyohu Gutmacher, Av Beis Din of Graiditz, and two by his son, the gaon Rabbi Tzvi, who passed away in his youth: A. Nachalas Tzvi — commentary on complex laws in Even HaEzer, by Rabbi Tzvi, with numerous diagrams. B. Kan Meforeshes — Mishnayos Kinnim with an extensive commentary, by Rabbi Tzvi. C. Tzofnas Paneach — commentary on the sayings of Rabbah bar bar Chanah, by Rabbi Eliyohu. D. Sholom BePamalya Shel Maalah — resolutions of contradictions among the halachic authorities, by Rabbi Eliyohu. Study of Kan Meforeshes — A Segulah for Yeshuah The study of Kan Meforeshes is regarded as a segulah for salvation. Thus writes the author's father, the wonder-working tzaddik of Graiditz, in his introduction: “When a person requires salvation from Hashem... he should study Mishnayos Maseches Kinnim with the commentary of the Rav, Tosfos Yom Tov, and the commentary of my son of blessed memory; afterward he should stand and pray in whatever language he speaks fluently... and specify his request, and he will be answered...” Sar HaTorah Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky held this segulah in high regard and advised many to study the tractate together with the commentary. His righteous wife, daughter of Rabbi Yosef Sholom Elyashiv, testified that “hundreds and thousands of people were helped through the segulah of studying Maseches Kinnim with the commentary Kan Meforeshes” (Me'Hashem Yotzo HaDovor, p. 379). The gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliyohu Gutmacher (1796–1874), a disciple of Rabbi Akiva Eiger and one of the most extraordinary figures in the Torah world of the last two centuries, was renowned throughout the Jewish world as “the Tzaddik of Graiditz.” Multitudes flocked to him seeking blessings and salvation, until he was compelled to publish notices in the contemporary press asking people to cease doing so. Essay VIII in Tzofnas Paneach, printed in the present volume, contains remarkable accounts of salvations and wonders associated with his name. His beloved son, the gaon Rabbi Tzvi Gutmacher, was an exceptional scholar who passed away in the prime of his life during his father's lifetime, in 1871. He authored the fundamental work Kan Meforeshes on Maseches Kinnim, as well as Nachalas Tzvi on the laws of marital affiliation. Ownership inscriptions on the endpaper. Lemberg, 5633 [1873]. First edition. Details: [4], 2–28, 42 leaves. 4 additional pages (these four pages are not recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book). Size: 28 × 21 cm. Wear and minor worming. Repairs to the index page of Tzofnas Paneach affecting the first three leaves. Some staining. Good condition.