Bidspirit auction | Sefer HaGan V’Derech Moshe. Lemberg,

Sefer HaGan V’Derech Moshe. Lemberg, Shlomo Yarsh Rapaport. [1792]This book also includes the famous asterisks, just like the Noam Elimelech - Sefer HaGan V’Derech Moshe. Lemberg, Shlomo Yarsh Rapaport. [1792] Studies for the days of the week and month. Printed by R’ Shlomo Yarsh Rapaport. Chassidim effusively praised his press, at which the first edition of the Noam Elimelech was printed. Rare, listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book according to a copy in the British Library. Not in the National Library. This book also includes the famous asterisks, just like the Noam Elimelech which R. Shlomo Yarish printed. Chassidic tradition ascribes great importance to these asterisks. The researcher R. Chaim Lieberman relates to these asterisks in his article on the first edition of Noam Elimelech (Ohel Rachel, I, New York, 1980, p. 63): ”Polish Chassidim name this edition 'the Noam Elimelech with asterisks', and they hold it in extremely high regard, since they attribute hidden meaning and allusions to these asterisks…”. Hadrat Kodesh, biography of R. Avraham Yehoshua Freund (rabbi of Năsăud; Jerusalem 1960, p. 47) states in his name: ”He attested that there is hidden meaning in the asterisks printed in the first edition of Noam Elimelech; reputedly, Elazar (son of the Noam Elimelech) experienced revelations from Eliyahu as he was writing, and he marked those places with an asterisk, and they also say that the first printers and typesetters were amongst the 36 hidden Tzaddikim…”. As mentioned, this book also features asterisks, as do other books printed by R. Shlomo Yarish (see article by Chaim Lieberman).