Chaba"d Bichel with Important Revelations: Iggerot from the Mittler Rebbe, with Unique Supplements. Jerusalem, C. 1850s

Chaba"d Bichel with Important Revelations: Iggerot from the Mittler Rebbe, with Unique Supplements. Jerusalem, C. 1850s

Interesting Chaba"d bichel with important revelations - copy of the iggerot and kuntressim from the Mittler Rebbe of Lubavitch - with introductions, summaries and other interesting matters by the copyist. Jerusalem, c. 1850s.

At the beginning of the bichel there is a known letter from the Alter Rebbe of Liadi, who told the Chassidim in Vilna the famous story about his two attempts to see the Gr"a. This familiar iggeret was printed in many sefarim; it is iggeret 52 in his Iggerot (2012 edition). There are several hypotheses by researchers and copyists as to when this iggeret was written. This bichel includes the copyist's date, Tammuz 1797. There is no other known copy with this date.

Most of the bichel is transcriptions of iggerot and kuntressim by the Admo"r, the Mittler Rebbe of Lubavitch, dealing with topics in Divine service. A large part of the bichel is a transcription of Kuntress HaHitpa'alut by the Mittler Rebbe. At the beginning of his transcription, he wrote the date he transcribed it: "After Pesach, 1814." Here, too, there is no other source for this precise date.

Before the transcription of Kuntress HaHitpa'alut, as well as following it, there are introductory words and a summary of the content of the iggeret. Likewise, several leaves in the bichel contain guidance, conduct and elucidations that are unprinted anywhere; it appears that these are the transcriptionist/author's own.

From the fact that the bichel mentions Likkutei Torah by the Alter Rebbe, which was printed in 1848, it seems that this was not copied before 1848.

The content of the leaves apparently demonstrates that it was transcribed in Jerusalem. There are notes, visions of a sort, and other interesting matters. The transcriptionist describes, inter alia, "Once I asked a certain Chassidic rabbi, whose opinion was that one cannot escape Gehinnom, [and if so] what is the difference between him and sinners who are destined to Gehinnom ..."

[35] leaf (69 written pages). 21 cm. Greenish leaves.

Fine-very fine condition. Aging stains, with blemishes to individual words.