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Nezer HaKodesh on Bereishis Rabbah. Yasenitz, 1719. Sole Edition. - Sefer Nezer HaKodesh — commentary according to the Pardes approach on Bereishis Rabbah, by Rabbi Yechiel Michel ben Rabbi Uziel of Halberstadt. Important approbations. This Midrash is cited numerous times in the works of the great Chassidic masters, particularly in the writings of the tzaddikim of the Sighet and Satmar dynasties, foremost among them the seforim Yismach Moshe and Yitav Lev. The author was among the scholars of the beis medrash of the governor and leader Yissochor Berman Segal, who assisted in printing the sefer. At the head of the title page appears the verse: “Semach Zevulun be-tzesecha ve-Yissochor be-ohalecha.” Yasenitz, 1719. Sole edition. [6], 484, [7] leaves. 31 cm. Large thick volume. Worn antique binding. Dark staining. Isolated worming at the margins of several leaves. Title page slightly worn with paper restorations.