First edition, rare—Menachem Zion, by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov, with Chassidic endorsements. Premyslan 1885

First section, commentary HaAdra Zuta, second section commentary on Megillat Ruth and articles of the Zohar using mysticism. The book is Mayim Adirim by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov, student of the Vilna Gaon, which was printed in Warsaw in 1886 around a year after this with glosses Beer Yitzhak by Rabbi Yitzhak Issac Hever. The copy before us is the first edition printed in Premyslan, and on the back of the book it is noted that the book was written by “The Holy Rabbi Menachem Mendel who is buried in Tiberias.” Accidentally the book was attributed to Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, and it also says that on the cover “this book was very important to the Admor of Sanz [Rabbi Haim Halberstam, the Divrei Haim], almost every day that he would learn this book he would not leave his chair or his table.” On the book are a number of endorsements from the sons of the Divrei Haim, Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin, Rabbi Avraham Iger, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam the first of Babov, and more. Bound together with it is the only edition of the books Birkat HaNefesh, and Matok LaNEfesh, and the pamphlet Sha’arei Mada—commentary on Barchi Nafshi and 15 Shirei Ma’a lot and drashot and notes on the Yoreh De’ah by Rabbi Gershon Stern (1861-1936), the Yalkut HaGershoni. Printed in Paksh, 1911. Moth damage, first cover disconnected, stains and wear, generally good condition.