Lot 80
Or LaShamayim (Rebbe Meir of Apta) – Lviv, 1850 – First Printing of the Author's Prayer for Livelihood, Called by the Tiferet Shlomo "An Awesome Segulah for Livelihood and Success"
Or LaShamayim, Chassidic discourses on the Torah portions, novellae on Talmudic topics and responsa, by Rebbe Meir HaLevi Rottenberg, Rabbi of Stopnica and Apta, disciple of the Chozeh of Lublin. [Lviv: printer not indicated, 1850]. First edition. Approbation of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz printed at the end of the book.
The author's famous prayer is printed at the beginning of the book: "Yadati Ki Hineni BeYadcha…". Later editions of the book (starting from the 1914 edition) state that the Tiferet Shlomo of Radomsk would recite the prayer twice daily, and declared that reciting the prayer daily is "an awesome Segulah for livelihood and success".
The book was edited and published by the author's son-in-law R. Menachem Mendel Rubenstein, Rabbi of Głogów, who writes in the introduction that "when the words parted from his mouth, he almost departed his physical existence, and the divine presence would speak through his throat, and all his holy words were the bounty granted him by heaven at that time, as I heard from him several times. Happy is the eye that saw the luster and splendor of the divine light that rested upon his holy face, and happy is the ear that heard his holy words spoken in holiness and purity".
[1], 74, 77-78, [1], 78-81, [1] leaves. Misfoliation. 22.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Light wear. Open marginal tears, and worming affecting text, repaired with paper filling. New leather binding.
