(CHASSIDISM).

Isaiah Jacob Halevi of Olesk. Beth Chochmah [kabbalistic commentary to the Song of Songs, with text, plus commentary on Psalms 107 and passage of Zohar “Kegavna” recited Friday evening]. pp. (6), 82. Podgorze, S. L. Deutscher, 1898. * WITH: Tzvi Aryeh ben Eliezer. Imrei Binah [kabbalistic commentary to the Song of Songs, with text]. ff. (2), 105. Sighet, M. Wider, 1897.

The author of the first work was one of the famous kabbalists of the Kloiz of Brody. It contains approbations from the foremost Chassidic leaders of the period such as the R. Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinav, R. Yissachar Dov of Belz, R. Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov, the Rebbes of Tzortkov, Kapitshnitz and others. The author of the second work was the father-in-law of R. Shlomo Leib Tabak, Dayan of Sighet, author of “Erech Shai,” It contains an approbation by R. Chanania Yom-Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Sighet, author of “Kedushath Yom Tov.”