First edition of this two part work on Torah and festivals and correspondence by R. Simhah Issachar Baer ben Ezekiel Shraga Halberstam of Cieszanow. Part one is the novellae on the weekly Torah readings and festivals, described as discourses said in holiness and purity, designed to arousae one’s heart to the service of his Creator and to instruct the people of the Lord the way of the Lord. Part two includes holy letters written in waging the wars of the Lord, “to stand in the breach and build up the wall” (cf. Ezekiel 22:30). The verso of the title page has a letter received after printing was completed so that the page should not be bland, followed by the introduction of R. Ezekiel Shraga Halberstam, the author’s son, a page of errata, and then the text. There is a second page of errata after the text and then part two, which is comprised of seventy letters written by R. Halberstadt, many in opposition to Zionism and Mizrahi.

R. Simhah Issachar Baer ben Ezekiel Shraga Halberstam of Cieszanow (1870-1914) was rebbe in that location. He was born in Sztropkov and, in 1886, he married the daughter of R. Joshua Rokeah of Belz. R. Halberstadt was an outspoken opponent of Zionism and Mizrahi, as reflected in this work. He was succeeded in Cieszanow by his son-in-law R.Aryeh Leibish Rubin. His son, R. Ezekiel Shraga, was the last rebbe there.