Pri Etz, by Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, Chassidic homiletics on the Torah and the Festivals, with a copy of his testament. Zhitomir, 1874. First edition. The title page states that the book was copied from a manuscript held by Rabbi Aharon of Chernobyl, which was sent to him from Jerusalem. [This edition is different from the Etz Pri composition printed later in Lemberg, 1880 according to a more accurate manuscript]. Signatures and stamps of Rabbi "Yitzchak Isaac Weiss", Rabbi of the Mukacheve community, and of Rabbi Mordechai Avraham Katz of Csenger. Many handwritten glosses and corrections on the leaves, apparently written by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Weiss [determined by comparing the handwriting – See Kedem catalogue, Auction 2 Lot 287]. The Chassidic Kabbalist Torah scholar, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Weiss (1824-1894), was Av Beit Din of Szolyva and Ra'avad of Mukacheve, as well as the author of Beit Yitzchak. Born in 1824 in Mukacheve, his father was like a son to Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac of Nagykálló (Kalov). Rabbi Yitzhak studied with Rebbe Zvi Elimelech of Dynów, author of Bnei Yissaschar, Rebbe Yehuda Zvi of Radzil, author of Da'at Kedoshim (edited by his disciple, the Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac), Rebbe Shalom of Belz and Rebbe Yitzchak Isaac of Zhydachiv (who praised him highly and relied on him to edit his Chassidic and Kabbalistic writings). After the death of his rebbe in Zhydachiv, he travelled to the author of the Divrei Chaim in Sanz, to Rebbe Yisrael of Sadigura, to Rebbe Chaim of Kosiv, Rebbe Zvi Hirsh of Rymanów and to Rebbe Meir of Peremyshlyany. His close disciple was his nephew, the first Spinka Rebbe, author of Imrei Yosef. Rabbi Shimon Greenfeld, Av Beit Din of Semihali, Hungary, wrote about Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac: “And I knew that he was a great kabbalist, almost the only one with this knowledge in our country” (Maharshag responsa, Part 1, Orach Chaim Siman 30). From his many writings, only the following books were published: Toldot Yitzchak on the Torah, Divrei Yitzchak and Beit Yitzchak on Tractate Megillah. His son-in-law is Rebbe Elimelech Lowy son of Rabbi Meshulam Feish of Nyírtass (Tosh), grandfather of the Canada Tosher Rebbe. 30 pages, 19.5 cm. Good-fair condition, wear. Unbound. Stefansky Chassidut, no. 481.