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LOT 29:

Degel Machaneh Efraim – Korets, 1810 – First Edition – Copy of Rebbe Alter Biderman of Lelov-Sosnovitz

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Degel Machaneh Efraim – Korets, 1810 – First Edition – Copy of Rebbe Alter Biderman of Lelov-Sosnovitz
Degel Machaneh Efraim, Chassidic teachings on the Torah, by R. Moshe Chaim Efraim Ashkenazi Rabbi of Sudilkov (Sudylkiv), grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. Korets, 1810. First edition. 
Copy of Rebbe Alter Biderman of Lelov-Sosnovitz (Sosnowiec) – the title page bears his signature (in pencil) and his various stamps. Rebbe Alter Biderman (1862-1933) was born in Jerusalem to R. Elazar Menachem Mendel of Lelov. Although his full name was Avraham Betzalel Natan Notte, he was known as Alter. In 1894, he travelled to Poland and led a group of Chassidim in Sosnovitz, being called "the Eretz Israel Rebbe".
An early Chassidic book. This book is one of the first and most reliable sources of the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, received directly from him by the author R. Moshe Chaim Efraim of Sudilkov (d. 1800), his grandson (son of the Baal Shem Tov's pious daughter Odel). The Baal Shem Tov mentions this grandson in his renowned letter to his brother-in-law R. Gershon of Kitov in 1752 as a tremendous genius. 
The book includes approbations by foremost Chassidic leaders: R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, the Maggid R. Yisrael of Kozhnitz, R. Yaakov Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz the Chozeh of Lublin, R. Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Rabbi of Apta, and the Be'er Mayim Chaim. Selections from the Baal Shem Tov, as well as "the dreams found in the writings of the holy rabbi" are printed at the end of the book.
Chassidic leaders greatly praised the holiness of this book, and its ability to inspire whoever studies it with fear of G-d, as R. Levi Yitzchak wrote in his approbation to the book: "I am convinced that this book will enthuse the hearts of our Jewish brethren to worship G-d". 
All the approbations stress the author's lineage as grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, and that the book is replete with the latter's essential teachings. 
[2], 114 leaves. 21 cm. Greenish paper. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Worming. Tears and damage, repaired with paper, to first and last leafs, slightly affecting text of last leaves. Possibly, this item combines leaves from two different copies (the title page and the leaves with the approbations are different from the subsequent leaves). The title page, the second leaf and the last leaf bear the rebbe's stamps. Various stamps. New leather binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 128. Stefansky Classics, no. 383.