Shaar HaTefillah, by Rebbe Chaim Rebbe Chaim of Czernowitz, the Be'er Mayim Chaim. Sudylkiv 1825, First Edition- ...

Shaar HaTefillah, by Rebbe Chaim Rebbe Chaim of Czernowitz, the Be'er Mayim Chaim. Sudylkiv 1825, First Edition- With rare leaves discussing matter of Chassidic polemic

Sefer Shaar HaTefillah, regarding prayer, by Rebbe Chaim Thirer of Czernowitz (Chernivtsi), author of Be'er Mayim Chaim and Sidduro shel Shabbat. 

First edition, [Sudylkiv]: Tzvi Ze'ev Rubinstein, 1825.

In the foreword, the publisher states that this book was written in Eretz Israel, to where the author immigrated, after the printing of his first books Sidduro Shel Shabbat and Be'er Mayim Chaim and after they became popular in most towns and countries. He testifies to the words of the holy author, who stated that Shaar HaTefillah has the power to hasten the redemption.

Printed here for the first time is the author's well known responsum regarding the recitation of "Leshem Yichud", in which he rebuts the opinion of the Noda BiYehuda, who criticized its recital.

[2], 3-10, 102,113-115  leaves. 21 cm. 

Bluish-greenish paper. Most of the volume is in good condition, stain on title page, worming track to first 7 pages, small wormhole in the margins of page 5-16, water stains, worming to last 2 pages, unbound.

The title page has large letters of “In Mahlov”, but as noted the Sefer was actually printed in Sudylkiv by the Mahlov printer.

Stefansky Chassidut, no. 538.

The author, Rebbe Chaim Thirer of Czernowitz (ca. 1740s – ca. 1813), was a Chassidic leader, disciple of the Maggid of Zlotchov. He served as rabbi of Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Botoşani, Kishinev (Chișinău) and Czernowitz, and was greatly influential in reinforcing Torah observance in the Bukovina region. He was reputed as a holy man, and wondrous tales about him abound. He was renowned in the Chassidic world for his extreme attachment to the holiness of Shabbat, during the course of which he soared to exalted levels.

His teacher, the Maggid of Zlotchov, attested that he drew his vitality from the holiness of Shabbat. According to Chassidic tradition, after his immersion before Shabbat, his form would change and he would grow taller by a handbreadth. In the summer of 1813, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Safed.

With stamp of Rabbi Avraham Aryeh Leib Rozen, Rabbi of Paltishen and its region. From the great Rabbanim of Romania from the period before the Holocaust. Rav of Bohosh, Voinești and Paltishen. Author of 'Shaagat Aryeh', Shu"t 'Pirchei Shoshanah' and 'Eitan Aryeh'. His Son was Rabbi Moshe David Rozen, who was Cheif Rabbi in Romania at the time of the communist rule and thereafter.