(CHASSIDISM).

Nathan Schriftgisser

Warsaw

1868

Malisov, Hillel, of Paritch and Bobroisk. Likutei Bi'urim [Collection of commentaries to three works of Dov Baer ben Shneur Zalman of Lubavitch ("Mitteler Rebbe")]: I) Kuntress ha-Hithpa'aluth [Tract on Ecstasy]. * II) Sha'ar ha-Yichud [The Gate of Unity]. * III) Hakdamath Derech Chaim [Introduction to Way of Life]

Habermann, Sha'arei Chabad (in Alei Ayin: S.Z. Schocken Festschrift), 91(erroneously gives foliation as [1], 52)

"A penetrating analysis of various forms and stages of mystical rapture and ecstasy" (See Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, p. 121). This edition of Kuntress ha-Hithpa'aluth contains textual variants and an Introduction of R. Dov Baer not found in earlier editions (see Habermann, Sha'arei Chabad p. 317). The Author, R. Dov Baer, succeeded his father R. Shneur Zalman as leader of the Chabad branch of Chassidism. R. Hillel Malisov (d. 1864), erstwhile chassid of R. Mordechai of Chernobyl, was a devoted disciple of Rabbi Dov Baer, after whose death, became a follower of his successor (and son-in-law), R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch "Tzemach Tzedek".