PNC Front Matter — Haskomois — Approbations to Likutay Moharan

**Haskomas ha-Rav ha-Kodoish, ateres tif'eres Yisrael — Mo'h'r Yaakov Yitzchok mi-Lublin (ha-Choizeh) zal — be'al ha-mechabair Sefer Divrei Emes.** *Yom gimmel, kaf-vov Teives 5568 (TaKSaCH) — Lublin.* The first haskomah is from the Choizeh of Lublin. *Ha-na-hid kesuvah ailai be-etzba Eloikim chorus, asher sholach ailai chad min kamaya — ha-loi hu mechusoni chavivi vi-yedidi ha-Rav ha-Mo'oar ha-Godoil, ish kodoish, moifais ha-doar — Mo'h'r Nachman.* The Choizeh frames the manuscript as *kesuvah be-etzba Eloikim chorus* — *engraved by the finger of Eloikim*. **He pushes back on his own role**: *ha-i gavra rabba loi tzorich le-didi ve-loi le-de-kvosi — ki ma ani u-ma chai, shofol ve-nivzeh, chadel ishim, u-mai-oilam loi holachti bi-gedoilois.* He never gives haskomois on new seforim. **Aval le-ahavas ha-emes amarti — anvasonusay de-mar gormo li**: *only the marbeh-anavah of the Rebbe forced my pen*. *Hineni min ha-maskimim le-hoitzi le-ohr ta'alumois chochmah*, with a 10-year ban on republication.

**Haskomas ha-Adam ha-Godoil ba-Anokim — Maggid Maisharim de-K"K Kozhnitz — Mo'h'r Yisrael (ha-Kozhnitzer) zal** — be'al *Avoidas Yisrael*. *Yom gimmel, daled Shvat 5568 — Kozhnitz.* **"Lechu chazu mif'aloas Eloikim"** — *asher po'al ve-osah ish chai, rav pe'olim mi-Kavtze'el she-kibetz al yodoi zekukim de-nura u-ve'irin de-isha asher liket be-ma'amorim*. The Kozhnitzer Maggid identifies Rabbeinu's hisbodedus and his Toirah-chiddushim as *zekukim de-nura* — *literal sparks of fire* — *kibetz al yodoi*. **"Iyhu yo'eh ve-gulsai yo'eh"** (Bava Basra 75a — "he and his garment are fitting") — *Likutei Amorim, devorim niflo'im, ve-noira hu sevivov*. **Ha-mevi'ein be-eis kodesh**: a *nechd la-Rabbeinu ha-Kodoish ha-Baal Shem Toiv*. The Maggid mi-Kozhnitz signs as *Yisrael b-ha-monu'ach Mo'h'r Shabbsai, Maggid Maisharim de-K"K Kozhnitz*. **Same 10-year cherem applied.**

**Haskomois ha-meshulosh — Zlotchov, Brody, Brody.** **(3)** *Mo'h'r Avraham Chaim, av-bais-din de-K"K Zlotchov, be'al "Orach le-Chaim"* — *Yom hai, chof Shvat TaKSaCH*. **"Be-me'at devash she-hit'amti — hai-ru ainai"** (Shmuel I 14:29 — Yonosoin ve-ha-ya'aros devash). *Loi tzorich le-haskomosi, u-vifrat she-kvar hiskimu gedoilei ha-doar* — *ach ein mesarvin le-godoil, u-bosi ki-Yehuda u-ve-oid le-kara* (Yoma 25). **(4)** *Mo'h'r Mei'ir Margolios, av-bais-din ve-rosh-meta de-Brod ve-ha-kraiz* — *ohr le-yom gimmel kof-hai Shvat TaKSaCH*. The Brodyer Rosh-Meta makes a striking comparison: *chikoi mam-takim mah mosoik mai-d'vash ha-yotzai mai-ho-Ari kodoish yei-amer lo Rabbeinu ho-Arizal*. Likutay Moharan is *honey from the Arizal*. **(5)** *Mo'h'r Efrayim Zalman Margolios mi-Brody, be'al "Bais Efrayim" u-"Pri Tevu'ah"* — long and richly stylized hosko-mah on the *gedulas Rabbeinu* and his *yerushah me'avoisov ha-kedoishim* through the Baal Shem Toiv. **(6) Reb Nosson's editorial note**: ha-shloshah haskomois ha-rishoinois ne'evdu mai-roiv ha-anvasonus shel Rabbeinu (loi rotzeh le-hadpisom). Nimtze'u shtai haskomois noisofois (Choizeh + Maggid Kozhnitz) be-amtachas ha-talmidim — *amar-nu toiv le-had-pisom gam kein*. The two great pillars of giluy ha-chassidus signed on the saifer.