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Seder Klolos Tikkun V’Aliyos Ha’olamos by Rabbi Shabsai of Rashkov from the very first talmidim of the Baal Shem Tov First edition. Lvov, 1788 * Order of the Klolos Tikkun V’Aliyos Ha’olamos — an abridged format of the kabbalistic intentions of the Arizal for weekday, Shabbos, and festival prayers, by Rabbi Shabsai of Rashkov. First edition. Rare booklet. This is the first sefer published from the works of Rabbi of Rashkov. Six years later, his famous siddur ‘Siddur Reb Shabsai’ was printed (Koritz 1794). The holy Kabbalist Rabbi Shabsai of Rashkov was one of the Bnei Heichala Kaddisha and among the very first talmidim of the Baal Shem Tov. Rabbi Shabsai numbered among a cluster of scribes who wrote Sifrei Torah, tefillin and mezuzos and copied kabbalistic manuscripts for the Baal Shem Tov in a state of tremendous spiritual sanctity. He is best renowned for his Siddur Reb Shabsai which is regarded as one of the premier chassidic siddurim. Rabbi Shabsai was born in Rashkov in Bessarabia, yet aside from his birthplace, his life is shrouded in mystery to the extent that even his year of birth and death are unknown. The holy Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli, in his approbation to Rabbi Shabsai’s siddur, describes him as “the famous chassid, the Kabbalist, man of G-d” and the author of Toldos Yaakov Yosef cites him numerous times in his sefer. The one who brought the sefer to print was Rabbi Yaakov Zak, son of Rabbi Avraham Zak, Av Beis Din of Sharigrad, whom the Baal Shem Tov visited in order to do ‘shimush chachamim, ’ and together they merited the revelation of Eliyahu HaNavi (as recorded in sefer Ma’amar Mordechai, quoting from what was written in the Sharigrad notebook, in the introduction). .................................... .................................................. ....... Featuring the asterisks of Noam Elimelech from the same year and same press of Rabbi Shlomo Yarish Rappaport These sefarim feature the same famous asterisks (*) that appear in the holy sefer Noam Elimelech, which are said among chassidim to contain deep kabbalistic meanings and secrets (see Ohel Rachel vol. 1, p. 63). The present sefer was printed in the famed printing press of Rabbi Shlomo Yarish Rappaport in Lvov in the very year that the latter printed Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk’s Noam Elimelech. ................................................. ............................................ Lvov, 1788. First edition. Page Count: [6] leaves. Size: 18.1 cm. Condition: Holes repaired with paper fill (slightly effecting a few words); splendid new leather binding. Bibliography: Stefansky, Chassidus, no. 430.