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(CHASSIDISM). Aharon ben Yeshaya Kreglushker.  Lechem Terumah [homilies on the Torah and Mishnah]. FIRST EDITION. Half title on f. 29. ff. 56. Lightly worn, final leaf with marginal repair, previous owners’ inscriptions. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Fürth 537. Fürth, Itzik ben David Tzerendorf, 1781. One of the first books to mention the Gaon of Vilna in his lifetime, also with early mentions of the Baal Shem Tov, the Maggid of Mezheritch, R. Shmelke of Nikolsburg and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. The author of this rare work hailed from a small town near Vilna and served as Dayan of Varanovi. Clearly he was connected with both the Chassidic and Mithnagdic religious worlds, for most unusually he cites here both the Vilna Gaon as well as the Maggid of Mezheritch - providing each with lengthy honorifics: “HaMekubal HaGadol, Ish Eloki - in reference to the Maggid (see ff. 4a, 20b, 25b); and in reference to the Gaon: “HaGaon Ha’Amithi… Chasida Uperisha” (ff. 17b) and “Yireh Zera Veya’arich Yamav Veyemei Banav BeTorah VeGedulah ad Biath Hamashiach” (f. 24b). See M. Feikaz, Avoth HaChasiduth Bechibur Darshan Litai in: Molad Vol. 4 (1971) pp. 298-303.