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A handwritten notebook, sermons "Some of the sermons by Rabbi Yakely Bausker – with valuable sermons in Mussar and a few parables". [Bauska, 1837-1851]. Rabbi Ya'akov Benditman (1790-1861), was orphaned of his father at a young age and raised in the home of his famous grandfather, Rabbi Shmuel Chassid of Raszyn disciple of the Gra. He served as dayan of Shavel and from 1830 was appointed to the rabbinate of Bauska (Northern Lithuania, Latvia). After his death, he left writings, novellae, responsa and sermons. In 1874, his grandson in Vilna printed his book “Zichron Ya'akov”, and with the rabbis' approbations was also going to include the printing of the sermons, although actually only the responsa and novellae appear. (In the publisher's introduction, he writes that the author's writings were scattered and lost and he printed only what he had). In the approbations, Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan and the outstanding rabbis of his time describe Rabbi Ya'akov as: “Holy, famous genius and tzaddik". His son-in-law Rabbi Alexander Moshe Lapidot writes about him in his approbation that "his righteousness, asceticism and toil in Torah are famous". In these homiletics, many Kabbalistic ideas also appear that correlate the publisher's words that Rabbi Ya'akov also studied the hidden secrets of the Torah. Stories in the name of the Vilna Gaon are told in this manuscript: "I have heard…that when they wanted to travel from the Vilna Gaon close to the time of the Mincha prayer, and they asked him that since the horse driver was urging them to leave and was in a hurry, if they may travel before praying with the tzibbur. The Gaon answered them in his sweet manner: It is only a minor thing, one only becomes a "mumar l'davar echad" …" (leaf 21/2). This story also appears on leaf 54 in his handwriting in different words: "He only becomes a mumar in this matter of praying without a minyan. " There he also relates: "It is a known fact about the Vilna Gaon that he was always meticulous to pray with a minyan when traveling. Once he could not find a minyan at the inn and he sent a peasant to bring a minyan to the inn so he could pray with ten men". In other places in the manuscript, he writes things heard from Lithuanian rabbis and from his grandfather the Tzaddik Rabbi Shmuel Chassid of Raszyn. On leaf 11/1, he brings an interesting saying in the name of Rabbi Yitzchak of Volozhin about the “Dibbuk” of Novardok who would say to wicked men that he loves them and to G-d fearing tzaddikim he would say that he hates them. At times, it was amazing when he would yell at a man that he loves him and a minute later he would yell the opposite that he hates him, "since it was known that the man to whom he yelled his love knew that this was a sign that he lacked fear of Heaven so he would be very ashamed and blanch from shame… thereby repenting in his heart…". On leaves 23/2-24/2 he brings a nice parable heard from "Rabbi Mordechai Uriah in the name of Rabbi Yitzchak Volozhin". [1], 1-35, 37-76 leaves. Approx. 150 written pages. 22.5 cm. Good-fair condition, wear and loose torn binding.