Bas Ayin.
First Edition.
Jerusalem, 1847
originally owned by the author’s family!
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The present item boasts the Bas Ayin’s illustrious family tree as recorded by the author’s nephew Rabbi Moshe Efraim of Tzfas.
Chiddushei Torah and drashos on the weekly Torah portions by the saintly Bas Ayin, the Admor Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritch who “lectured every week on Shabbos with the holy spirit that descended upon him from the heavens”.
Beautiful copy with wide margins and original red leather binding engraved in gilded letters with the words “Belongs to R’ Yisrael Leib”. This was the personal copy of the Bas Ayin’s great-nephew Rabbi Yisrael Leib Avritcher.
The title page features an important list of family lineage handwritten by the Admor Rabbi Moshe Efraim of Tzfas, who was the Bas Ayin’s brother’s son and father of the said Rabbi Yisrael Leib who printed the sefer.
Rabbi Moshe Efraim inscribed in beautiful, large block letters that the sefer was authored by the righteous and saintly tzaddik
Avraham Dov ztvk”l and then lists his children: his son Rabbi Yisrael Leib; son-in-law Rabbi Chaim Yisrael son of the Admor of Ramen; and son-in-law Rabbi Feivish son of the gaon and tzaddik.
The Admor
Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritch (1765-12 Kislev, 1841) was one of the exalted Chassidic Admorim and legendary figures in the era of second-generation disciples of the Maggid of Mezritch. Rabbi Avraham Dov was the prime disciple of the Admor Rabbi Menachem Nachum of Chernobyl and the son-in-law and successor of Rabbi Nosson Nutta of Avritch, who studied directly under the Baal Shem Tov.
Toward the end of 1830, Rabbi Avraham Dov embarked on a journey to the Holy Land and settled in Tzfas where he stood at the forefront of the Chassidic Yishuv in Eretz Yisrael and supported its members during the hardest of times. During the notorious earthquake in Tzfas which felled thousands, those standing in shul in close proximity to the Bas Ayin was miraculously spared death (Rabbi Moshe Podhotzer of Tzfas in the name of the elders of Tzfas, cited in Toldos Adam at the end of Bas Ayin, [Jerusalem, 1959] and by Rabbi Yehaya Halevi Horowitz in Eden Tzion p. 5). Several years later, when plague broke out in the holy city of Tzfas, and countless perished, suffering excruciating deaths, the Bas Ayin vowed that the plague would cease immediately upon his death, which is what indeed occurred (ibid p. 6).
Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritch’s sefer Bas Ayin is one of the foundational Chassidic sefarim, and it is said that learning it is auspicious for personal salvation. Some attribute this miraculous phenomenon to the fact that the name בת עין is an acronym for י’שראל נ’ושע ב’ה’ ת’שועת ע’ולמים, Yisrael is saved by Hashem with an eternal salvation.
Jerusalem, 1847. First edition. [2], 125 [1] leaf. Page size: 22 cm. Restorations to back cover and corners.
List of family lineage as handwritten on the title page:
Harav Hakadosh Rabbi Avraham Dov of Avritch
Author of Bas Ayin
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Harav Hatzaddik Rabbi Yisrael Leib, Av Beis Din of Varchikov
Brother of the Bas Ayin
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His son Harav Hakadosh Rabbi Moshe Efraim
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His son Harav Hachassid Rabbi Yisrael Leib Avritcher of Tzfas[1]
His son-in-law Rabbi Chaim Yisrael, son of Harav of Ramen[2]
His son-in-law Rabbi Feivish[3]
[1] Brought the first edition of Bas Ayin to print.
[2] Son of the Admor Rabbi Yaakov Dov of Ramen, who was one of the noted followers of the Admor Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin and eventually settled in Tzfas. His name is mentioned among those who contributed to the printing costs of the sefer. For more about Rabbi Chaim Yisrael, see Igros Harav Hakadosh MiRuzhin Vol. 1 p. 517 comment 23.
[3] Also known as Rabbi Chaim Uri Feivish S’gan Leviim, son of the Admor Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Voltshisak. He is also mentioned among the donors who contributed to the sefer (See above Vol. 2 p. 70 comment 1).
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