Mekor Chaim, year-round homiletics, by the kabbalist R. Shmuel Vital of Damascus, son and disciple of R. Chaim Vital. Livorno: R. Yaakov Nunez-Vaez and R. Refael Meldola, [1792]. First edition.

Copy studied by Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. A letter from R. Menachem Mendel Greenberg, attendant of the rebbe, is mounted inside the board (of the new binding), testifying that he lent the book "to the Rebbe of Satmar in 1959, and he cherished it greatly and studied it in great depth". The title page bears stamps of the same R. "Mendel Greenberg".

Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), author of Divrei Yoel, a leader of his generation, president of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem and leader of American Orthodox Jewry, one of the founding pillars of Chassidic Jewry after the Holocaust. Born in Sighet, he was the son of Rebbe Chananiah Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov, and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehudah, the Yitav Lev, who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth for his acumen and intelligence, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. After his marriage to the daughter of Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Polaniec, he settled in Satmar and taught Torah and Chassidut to an elite group of disciples and followers. He later served as Rabbi of Irshava (1911-1915, 1922-1926), Karoly (Carei; from 1926) and Satmar (Satu Mare; from 1934), managing in each of these places a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. During the Holocaust, he was rescued through the famous Kastner Train, and after a journey through Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel, he reached the United States, where he established one of the largest Chassidic communities in the world.

[2], 86 leaves. 28 cm. Fair condition. Many dark stains. Wear and tears, affecting text. Many paper repairs. Stamp. New binding.