R. YECHIEL MEIR LIPSCHITZ OF GOSTYNIN ). Shailoth Uteshuvoth Mahrit

(CHASSIDISM

Yosef B. Mendl Ber

Furth

1768

With signature of the famous Chassidic Rebbe, R. Yechiel Maier of Gostynin (1810-1888), author of Mei Ha-Yam upside down on flyleaf and stamp of his son R. Yisrael Moshe.

The Rebbe of Gostynin was one the foremost disciples of the Rebbe of Kotzk. He was famed as a miracle worker and was popularly known as the "Guter Yid " (the Good Jew) or the "Tehillim Yid.” His master, the Kotzker Rebbe regarded him as being one of the 36 ("Lamed Vav”) Tzadikim - righteous saints of the generation upon whose merit the world is sustained. He was a great halachic scholar as well, and served as the official Rabbi of his town, receiving a salary, and therefore refused to take "pidyonot” or presents from his Chasidim. His works were collected from manuscripts and from notes of his Chassdim and published under the title Mei Ha-Yam.