Letter of Good Year Wishes from the Holy Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Isak of Svaliava, Author of Beit Yitzchak - ...

Letter of Good Year Wishes from the Holy Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Isak of Svaliava, Author of Beit Yitzchak - Munkacs, 1887
Letter handwritten and signed by the kabbalist R. Yitzchak Isak Weiss, head of the Munkacs Beit Din, author of Beit Yitzchak. Munkacs (Mukachevo), Elul 1887. Addressed to R. Yisrael Berger Rabbi of Probizhna (later head of the Bucharest Beit Din. Author of many books of selections from Chassidic masters: Zechut Yisrael, Eser Tzachtzachot and others). The letter mainly relates to the sale of R. Yisrael Berger's books, and concludes with blessings for a good year and a good life: "…And as the sound of the Shofar rises, may he and all his family members be inscribed in the book for good life…" - "Yitzchak Isak Weiss". R. Yitzchak Isak Weiss (1824-1894), Rabbi of Svaliava and later head of the Munkacs Beit Din, author of Beit Yitzchak. He was the prime teacher of his nephew, R. Yosef Meir Weiss, first Rebbe of Spinka, author of Imrei Yosef. Born in Munkacs to R. Avraham Weiss (who was considered as a son to R. Yitzchak Isak of Kaliv). R. Yitzchak Isak was a progenitor of Chassidism in Transylvania in the mid-19th century, and the disciple of foremost Rebbes: R. Tzvi Elimelech of Dinov author of Bnei Yissaschar, R. Yehuda Tzvi of Rozdil author of Daat Kedoshim (book compiled by his disciple R. Yitzchak Isak Weiss), R. Shalom of Belz, R. Yitzchak Isak of Ziditchov (who acclaimed him as one of the sixty mighty men surrounding him, and relied upon him to edit his writings in Chassidut and Kabbalah). After the passing of the Rebbe of Ziditchov, he frequented the courts of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, R. Yisrael of Sadigura, R. Chaim of Kosov, R. Tzvi Hirsh of Rimanov and R. Meir of Premishlan. His son-in-law was Rebbe Elimelech Lowy, son of the first Rebbe of Tosh R. Meshulam Feish Lowy. The Maharshag, R. Shimon Grünfeld Rabbi of Smihaly described R. Yitzchak Isak: "and I knew that he was a great Kabbalist, almost unique in the country in this wisdom" (Responsa Maharshag, part I, Orach Chaim section 30). From his large collection of writings, only the following were published: Toldot Yitzchak on the Torah, Divrei Yitzchak, and Beit Yitzchak on Tractate Megillah. [1] leaf. 19.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains and wear. Marginal damage to letter, with loss of text to right and left edges of the lines.