Safrin, Yitzchak Isaac Yehudah Yechiel of Komarno. Likutei Heichal HaBracha [discourses on the Torah]

(CHASSIDISM).

(Jerusalem?)

1942

Hebrew manuscript, attractively written in a neat Sephardic semi-cursive and square hand on paper, text often highlighted in red. Title-page within colorful geometric borders.

Selections and summaries of discourses from the classical work on Chumash by the Komarner Rebbe. Affectionately known as R. Eizikel Komarner, he was raised by his uncle, the kabbalist R. Tzvi Hirsch Eichenstein of Zidachov and grew to become one of the most prolific of Chassidic authors. A multi-faceted personality, he also enjoyed a reputation as a miracle worker. The scribe of the present manuscript, Yoseph ben Yitzchak Yarimi, composed a charming introduction stating since the Chumash Heichal HaBracha is so elusive and thus expensive, he thanks one Avigad Sharabi for lending it to him. “My love for this work is very great and I did not rest … until I copied the parts that I felt vital to constantly study.” The scribe was much interested in Masoreth and appends a portion of Ta’amei Mesoreth (ff. 64b-70b) as well as Maimonides’s Kelalei HaMitzvoth (ff. 71-85).