Bidspirit auction | Sefer Zera Kodesh, Chassidic homiletics.

Sefer Zera Kodesh, Chassidic homiletics. Part I on the Torah and Part II on the Festivals, by the Holy Rebbe Naftali Tzvi Horowitz of Ropshitz (Ropczyce). - Lviv (Lemberg): Uri Ze'ev Wolf Salat, 1868. First edition. Chassidic masters treasured the Zera Kodesh and would study it diligently every Shabbos. Printed with interesting approbation (that's lacking in this copy) at the beginning of part I, by a close disciple of the author – Rebbe Chaim of Sanz. He writes that in the past he did not agree to print the holy teachings of R. Naftali of Ropshitz, ”because I knew that the holy author himself did not approve of printing his Torah novellae. However, on second thought, I decided that it was good that the printers published these writings. It is known that R. Chaim Vital also refrained from publishing his novellae and the teachings he received from his teacher, the Ari, and did not allow his disciples to write them; nevertheless, the righteous of the generation made efforts to copy, write and publish them, and the world shone…”. On the verso of the approbation leaf is a notice by the person who brought the book to press: ”I have called the book Or HaNer, however the holy rebbe of Sanz called it Zera Kodesh… and I have nullified my will before his holy will”. Two parts in one volume: [1], 124; [1], 120 leaves. Lacking the page with approbation of the Divrei Chaim.  22.2 Cm. Stefansky, Chassidus # 208