Segulah for a Fire: Ma'amar Mordechai by Rabbi Mordechai of Drohobych. Only Edition. Lemberg, 1877

Segulah for a Fire: Ma'amar Mordechai by Rabbi Mordechai of Drohobych. Only Edition. Lemberg, 1877

Ma'amar Mordechai - essays on Kabbalah and Chassidut for the weekly Torah portions and the festivals, as well as various compilations, by Kabbalist Rabbi Mordechai Leitner. Lemberg, 1877. Only edition. Two title pages.

Segulah book to be saved from a fire - as written at the end of the foreword by the son of the author, Rabbi Mordechai of Drohobych: "It is also a protection from fire damage, as the renowned Chassid, the butcher of Skoli - the book's copyist, told me: Once, there was a fire in Skoli, and the flames almost reached the walls of the house. He held this sacred book in his hand ... and was saved from the fire - this is proof."

Important approbations from prominent Admo"rs: Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac of Zhidichov, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac of Komárno, Rabbi Ya'akov Shimshon of Kossov, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehudah of Sighet, Rabbi Avraham Ya'akov of Sadigura, Rabbi David Moshe of Chortkov, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vizhnitz, Rabbi Baruch of Vizhnitz, Rabbi Eliyahu of Drohobych.

The author, Rabbi Mordechai Leitner, was one of the most prominent disciples of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Zhidichov; one of the disciples of Seer of Lublin and the maggid of Kozhinitz. He served as Admo"r of Drohobych. It is told that he passed away as he emerged from a mikveh on the eve of Shabbat. The author of Yetev Lev's mother attested that she saw a pillar of fire over the mikveh building at that moment.

Stefansky Chassidut 319.

Approximately 25 cm. [4] 112 leaves. Leaf 112 includes the list of subscribers.

Moderate- fine condition. Tears with lacks and dampstains in the upper margins of the first and last leaves, usage stains. Most of the book is in fine-very fine condition.