Eybescheutz, David Solomon. Arvei Nachal [Chassidic sermons]

(CHASSIDISM).

(Sudylkow)

(1825)

FIRST EDITION . Two title-pages (second title bound between f. 40 and 41 of second pagination). Including approbations by R. Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev and R. Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt.

Vinograd, Sudylkow 85; Mehlman 883; Stefansky, Chassiduth 470.

FIRST EDITION OF A CLASSIC CHASSIDIC TEXT. A RARE COMPLETE COPY. R. David Solomon Eybeschuetz (1755-1813), a disciple of the Maggid of Mezhritch, is most famous for this homiletic work on the Bible. Rabbi of Soroka (Moldavia), he settled in Eretz Israel 1809 and is buried in Safed. See Y. Alfasi, Traklinei Chassiduth, p. 929; Y. Raphael, Encyclopedia LeChassiduth, 533-35; N.Z. Friedmann, Otzar Harabanim 5214. The scholar Hayim Liberman proves that the present edition which does not indicate the place and year of publication is indeed the first edition. All later editions were severely censored. See Ohel Rachel, Vol. I pp. 372-73.