Talmud Yerushalmi: Moed. With commentaries Korban Ha-Edah and Shayarei Korban

(CHASSIDISM)

M. Horowitz

Shklov

1812

Copy with Signature of Nechemiah Yechiel Rabinowicz of Bychava. With inscription in an Ashkenazic hand on the flyleaf “shayach le-harav ha-tzadik.. butzina kadisha [holy light] moreinu ha-rav Nechemiah Yechiel sheyichyeh mi-byechuv ben Ha-Rav Ha-Tzadik ha-Gaon ha-Charif u-baki, sinai ve-oker harim butzinah kadishah, aspaklariah ha-meirah, ish elokim kadosh raban shel kol bnei ha-golah moreinu harav Yaakov Yitzchak Itzik ben harav ha-maor ha-gadol charif u-baki, chasidah uperisha, ... muchtar benimusin moreinu ha-rav Asher av beth din ve-ram be-Pshedbruzh... ben... neched... [listing the geneology of The Yid Hakadosh]. The verso of the flyleaf contains a “kvittel” with family-names requesting a blessing of the Rebbe, in the customary Chassidic fashion. With scattered marginalia in another Aschkenazic hand

Vinograd, Sklow 161

Volume from the Library of Nechemiah Yechiel Rabinowicz of Bychava, Son of R. Yaakov Yitzchak “The Yid Hakodosh.” R.Nechemiah (1808-53) was six years old when his father died. Upon the advice of his mentor, R. Israel of Ruzhyn, he became Rebbe of Bychava, near Lublin, at the age of twenty. His level of piety was such that he would assist in the preparation of the Sabbath fish delicacy while wrapped in Tallith and Tephillin. R.Nechemiah’s discourses were collected and published in 1913 and entitled Maaseh Nechemiah. He died on the anniversary of his father’s death (19th Tishrei). See H. Rabinowicz, Encyclopedia of Hasidism (1996) p. 393