Likutim Yekarim [teachings and homilies of the Ba’al Shem Tov]

AUCTION 14 | Tuesday, November 13th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 136

(CHASSIDISM).

Likutim Yekarim [teachings and homilies of the Ba’al Shem Tov]

FIRST EDITON. Title within typographical border ff. (2), 40. Lightly browned, few dampstains, marginal repairs to first two leaves, trace marginal worming on last few leaves, ff.37-40 supplied from another copy. Recent cloth-backed marbled boards. 4to Vinograd, Lemberg 82

Lemberg: Rapaport 1792

Est: $2,500 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,500

Israel ben Eliezer Ba’al Shem Tov (1700-60) founder of Chassidism, never put his teachings into writing in his lifetime - indeed, he opposed the attempts of others to do so on his behalf. Not until more than two decades after his death, were his sermons and homlies first presented in written form. The Likutim Yekarim is among these significant, early Chassidic texts, containing the somewhat revolutionary teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid of Mezhritch and other early Chassidic leaders. Views in this work aroused the ire of the Mithnagdim. Four years earlier Solomon Rapaport was responsible for the first appearance of the celebrated Noam Elimelech