Buzina di-Nehora, R. Baruch of Medzibezh, Lemberg 1884
בוצינא דנהורא - Hasidic - Unrecorded - Not in Major Collections or NLI
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- Lot Number 47377
- Title (English) Buzina di-Nehora
- Title (Hebrew) בוצינא דנהורא
- Note Unrecorded - Not in Major Collections or NLI - Hasidic
- Author R. Baruch b. Jehiel Michael of Medzibezh
- City Lemberg
- Publication Date 1884
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 1365398
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Physical Description
72 pp.. octavo 175:104 mm., nice margins, usual age staining. A good copy not bound.
Unrecorded - Not in Major Collections or NLI
Detail Description
Classic work of hasidic discourses by R. Baruch ben Jehiel Michael of Medzibezh, a grandson of the Baal Shem Tov (R. Israel b. Eliezer). In four parts, Buzina di-Nehora ha-Shalem includes Mekor Baruch, a history of the Baal Shem Tov and his antecedents, his disputes in the name of heaven, his works, wonders, correspondence, among them the Baal ha-Tanya, the Hozeh of Lublin, and others; Amorot Ha-Tohorot, on esoteric Torah and the depths of wisdom heard from his holy mouth; Buzina di-Nehora ha-Shalem, that which was printed in the first edition and subsequently omitted, with additions, and likkutei Torah from various works; and Migdal David, likkutei Torah brought in the name of his foremost student of Tulchin with the glosses Hayim David.
R. Baruch ben Jehiel of Medzibezh (1757–1810), hasidic zaddik; grandson of R. Israel b. Eliezer the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of modern Hasidism. R. Baruch, who studied under R. Phinehas Shapira of Korets, officiated from 1780 as rabbi in Tulchin, but encountered opposition and returned to Medzibezh in 1788. He attributed great importance to his descent and regarded himself as the heir to the Ba'al Shem Tov's leadership. He held that the zaddik could save and lead the whole world; the duty of the common man was only "to destroy the evil impulses and abandon his desires." Regarding himself as the leader of Hasidism by hereditary right, he held "court" in Medzibezh in a highly autocratic and luxurious fashion, though preaching asceticism to others. He kept a "court jester," Hershele Ostropoler. His behavior aroused opposition from other hasidic leaders. In 1808 he met Shneur Zalman of Lyady in an effort to settle their differences. Baruch attached mystical importance to the custom practiced by Hasidim of giving presents to the rabbis (pidyonot). He encouraged Hasidim to immigrate to Erez Israel. He took part in the assembly of hasidic rabbis at Berdichev (1802–03) that discussed the government's prohibition of Jewish settlement in the villages among other matters. His writings include Amarot Tehorot (1865; first published in his brother's (R. Moses Hayyim Ephraim) Degel Mahaneh Ephraim, Zhitomir, 1850) and Buzina di-Nehora (1880).
With two additional works.
Hebrew Description
References
BE bet 308 (1889 ed); JE