Bidspirit auction | Sefer Raza Mehimna Work of

Sefer Raza Mehimna Work of the Hidden Tzaddik, Preserved Through the Yismach Moshe Lvov, 1791. First Edition. * Raza Mehimna containing profound secrets and allusions on the twenty-two letters of the Alef-Beis according to the Kabbalah of the Arizal. It was composed by the hidden tzaddik Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Shochat of the village of Zorowitz, who, while performing shechitah, would have tears streaming from his eyes. The tzaddikim of the generation said about him that he knew, through his shechitah, how to bring a rectification to the soul that had been reincarnated in that animal. This work was preserved for generations by the holy Admor, the Yismach Moshe of Ujhely. Before his passing, the author instructed that his writings be buried in his grave; however, the Yismach Moshe — then a young man of only twenty-five — quickly hired scribes who copied all the manuscripts, placed the copies in the grave, and left the original manuscripts with the Yismach Moshe. The Yismach Moshe then entrusted them to the famed maggid Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael HaLevi of Kremnitz, author of Shevet MiYisrael, who brought them to Lvov, where they were printed. This episode is briefly alluded to in the publisher’s introduction to the sefer, and is recounted at greater length, with additional fascinating details, in the sefer Pe'er VeKavod (Munkatch, 1911). The author, the shochet and hidden tzaddik Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi (1735–1783) , author of Raza Mehimna and Oisiyos d’Rabbi Yitzchak, served as a shochet and bodek in the village of Zorowitz near Przemysl. In later years, his reputation spread among the tzaddikim, and in the approbations to his sefarim, the rabbanim extol and praise him as a hidden tzaddik and great kabbalist. At the beginning of the sefer appear important approbations from the kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Ostrer, author of Arugos HaBosem; Rabbi Meshulam HaKohen, Av Beis Din of Lvov, who testifies that his brother, the holy Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik HaKohein of Ostroh, author of Bris Kehunas Olam, said of him: “This author — the spirit of Hashem rests within him”; Rabbi Mendel Zolkover of the kabbalists of the kloiz of Brod, who writes: “From his writing and his language… it is apparent that he merited a certain revelation”; and more. The Beis Ephraim writes: “A holy man of G-d, knowledgeable of secret matters, modest in his ways, unparalleled in his generation, a faithful kabbalist, better a good name than fine oil… such was his path always, to remain hidden.” Lvov, 1791. First edition. Page Count: [4], 73 leaves. Condition : Good, with some stains. Fine new leather binding. Bibliography : Stefansky Chassidus, no. 535.