Simchah Bunim of Peshischa. Kol Simchah.

(CHASSIDISM).

Hirsch Zulzbach

(Breslau)

1859

FIRST EDITION. A wide margined copy.

Vinograd, Breslau 321; Stefansky, Chassiduth 520.

R. Simchah Bunim of Peshischa (1765–1827) was a seminal figure in the development of the Chassidic movement - in Poland especially. While a student in the traditional Academies in Mattersdorf and Nikolsburg, he was introduced by his father-in-law to an entirely different world - that of Chassiduth - and soon became a follower of the Kozhnitzer Maggid and the Chozeh of Lublin. Following the death of the Yid HaKodosh (R. Ya’akov Yitzchak Rabinowicz) most of the latter’s chassidim subsequently looked toward R. Simchah Bunim as their Rebbe. The final leaf of this work contains a record of the celebrated cryptic letter by R. Simchah Bunim concerning the secret of Rosh Hashanah that was addressed to his disciples. These included the Kotzker Rebbe, the Chidushei Hari’m, the Mei HaShiloach, Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izhbitz and others of similar, outstanding spiritual merit.