MAYIM RABIM ON THE TORAH
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hasidic homilies of R. Jehiel Michael of Zloczow on the weekly Torah readings, selected books of the Bible, and, at the end Megillat Yuhsan by R. R. Nathan Nute ha-Kohen Donner. There are approbations from R. Shalom Mordecai Schwadron, R. Yerachmiel Isaiah Mintzberg, R. Meir Shalom and his son Joshua Asher, and R. Moses Eliakim Ben Isaac Solomon. At the beginning of the book are the practices and customs of R. Jehiel Michael. The text is primarily the Torah on the weekly parasha and Mayim Rabim concludes with Megillat Yuhsan of the author’s in-law, R Isaac Solomon of Zalahava. R. Donner’s name doe not appear on the title page in Hebrew but in Cyrillic only.
R. Jehiel Michael of Zloczow (c. 1731–1786) was one of the early propagators of Hasidism in Galicia. He was born in Brody, the son of R. Isaac of Drogobych. It is related that on R. Jehiel's first visit to the Ba’al Shem Tov, the latter commanded that R. Jehiel be honored. After the death of the Ba'al Shem, R. Jehiel was one of the few disciples who accepted the leadership of R. Dov Baer , the maggid of Mezhirech. He served as preacher in Brody where he was among the members of the celebrated kloiz (klaus). Later he became preacher in Zloczow, and toward the end of his life settled in Yampol, Podolia. R. Jehiel was highly esteemed among the ?asidim and miraculous tales are related of his saintliness and asceticism, but he was strongly opposed by the Mitnaggedim. His distinctive spirituality is recalled by one of his disciples, who states that "it little mattered whether he had before him a Gemara or a kabbalistic text, for R. Jehiel saw in them only the means of serving God" (Likkutei Yekarim, 1872, 31b). In accordance with ?asidic views, he considered the principle of devekut ("devotion" to God) to be of major importance and remarked that the way to attain this state was through the negation of reality (i.e., ecstasy). There are two roads to devekut. The positive way is to stand in fear and shame before the greatness of the Creator and hence through prayer, study, and good deeds to find the state of true love. Diligence in these practices will eventually lead to devekut. The negative way is through a denial of all physical desire. Jehiel Michael constantly preached on the need to uproot evil characteristics and destroy physical lusts. He knew that this way to devekut was difficult, for God had created man different from His own essence and therefore man could not maintain a constant state of devekut. Since the danger of his sinking into his physical nature was anticipated, God had imbued him with the will to achieve union with his source (i.e., God). Man's task is to conquer the material world and to view it not as the purpose of life but as a means of discovering that divinity which is reflected in the material and enlivens it. In this teaching, R. Jehiel Michael follows Dov Baer of Mezhirech, but he saw that this way was the most perilous for the ordinary man. He did not believe that constant devekut was possible for every man while he was engaged in physical activity, therefore he advised that physical acts be preceded by meditation on the Divine Creator. When preaching he would begin his sermons: "I do not only command and admonish you but myself as well…" (Or ha-Meir, on ?av). The true preacher, Jehiel believed, was the man who felt that he was merely a mouthpiece of the Shekhinah ("Divine Presence") and not a man who spoke in his own voice. His disciple attests that he "spoke at length and explained his statements several times" (Likkutei Yekarim, 28b). R. Jehiel Michael did not leave any writings of his own. Selections from his sermons were published in the anthology Likkutei Yekarim, as the sermons of "the Maggid Meisharim" of Yampol. Tradition attributes many sayings to him and stories about his wondrous deeds appear in various collections. R. Jehiel Michael was the founder of a dynasty of ?addikim which spread throughout Galicia and the Ukraine. He had five sons: R. Joseph of Yampol, R. Mordecai of Kremenets (teacher of R. Meir of Przemyslany and father-in-law of R. Aaron II of Karlin ), R. Isaac of Radzivilov (author of Or Yi??ak, 1961), R. Moses of Vladimir-Volnyski, and R. Ze'ev Wolf of Zbarazh.
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