Manuscript - Traditions, Anecdotes, Practices and Wonder Stories from Great Chassidic Leaders - Copying from the ...

Manuscript - Traditions, Anecdotes, Practices and Wonder Stories from Great Chassidic Leaders - Copying from the Writings of Rebbe Baruch Rubin of Kolomyia-Gherla
Manuscript (12 pages), traditions, anecdotes, practices and wonder stories from great Chassidic leaders. [Copied from the writings of Rebbe Baruch Rubin of Kolomyia-Gherla, rabbi of Brizdivitz, author of She'erit Baruch, presumably by one of his grandsons. Transylvania? 1898-1936].
This manuscript contains dozens of accounts, testimonies, practices, traditions and wondrous tales about great Chassidic leaders and luminaries. A large part of the stories concerns the Maggid of Kozhnitz, his family and descendants - his father R. Shabtai, his son Rebbe Moshe Elyakim Beriah, and the latter's son-in-law Rebbe Yosef of Dombrov. The rest of the anecdotes relate to R. Elimelech of Lizhensk and his brother R. Zusha of Anipoli; R. Yehuda Leib HaKohen of Anipoli, author of Or HaGanuz; Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh "Mesharet" of Rimanov; Rebbe Meir HaLevi Rotenberg Rabbi of Apta - author of Or LaShamayim, and others.
The stories were published in She'erit Baruch, Jerusalem 1973 edition, and in Or Yesha, Jerusalem 1986 (the order of the printed stories differs from that of this manuscript).
The copying is introduced by the following statement, at the top of the first page: "Copy from the manuscripts of my grandfather, the rebbe… shlita… [=Rebbe Baruch Rubin, d. 1936]". The copying of the writings of Rebbe Baruch Rubin opens: "What I heard several times from my father, the rebbe, zatzal [=Rebbe Meir Rubin of Dombrov, d. 1898] who would often relate this episode. First I will record what I heard from my father, who retold in name of his father-in-law, my grandfather, R. Y. of Dombrov [=Rebbe Yosef Unger of Dombrov, son-in-law of R. Moshe Elyakim Beriah of Kohznitz]…".
At the top of p. [5b], it says: "In order that the last generation might retell, sons who will be born should tell their sons, what I hear from my father, the rebbe, what he would often relate, and he attested that he only recounted stories whose authenticity was transmitted from one person to another".
Some of the stories, as well as each page, conclude with: "All this I heard several times from my holy father, the rebbe".
The first story recorded in this manuscript is printed in Otzar HaSipurim, VI (Jerusalem 1953), p. 12, with the following introduction from the publisher and compiler: "Rebbe Yosef Meir Kahana of Spinka related to me, that he copied from the manuscripts of Rebbe Baruch Rubin Rabbi of Brizdivitz…".
Rebbe Baruch Rubin of Kolomyia-Gherla Rabbi of Brizdivitz (Berezdivtsi; 1864-1936). Son-in-law of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Eichenstein of Zidichov. Following his wedding, he settled in Kolomyia, near his father-in-law who served as rabbi there. He was the disciple of Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga of Shinova. In his youth, he frequented the court of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. In 1895, he was appointed rabbi of Brizdivitz, near Deyzh, Transylvania. During WWI, he fled to Deyzh, and in 1917, settled in Szamosújvár (Gherla), where he served as rebbe of Kolomyia. He was renowned for his Torah prominence, and many responsa addressed to him were printed in the responsa books of the leading Torah scholars of his generation. Most of his writings were lost in the Holocaust, and remnants of them were published in She'erit Baruch (two parts). R. Baruch was a scion of distinguished families, and a descendant of many great Chassidic leaders, whom he portrays in this collection of stories, as heard from his father and grandfathers.
A typewritten leaf is enclosed, containing the first few stories of the manuscript, presumably in preparation for print.
[6] leaves (12 written pages). 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Dampstains, with slight fading of ink in several words.