WORMSER, YITZCHAK ARYEH ZEKEL LEIB (BAAL SHEM OF MICHELSTADT).
Engraving of the Baal Shem, the Great Rabbi Sekel ...

Engraving of the Baal Shem, the Great Rabbi Sekel Lev from Michelstadt. Half-length portrait facing front. With captions below in Hebrew and French.
Lithography by Simon fils of Strasbourg. Stained, repair along left margin. 7 x 6 inches image size (11 x 9 leaf size).

Germany, early 19th-century

Yitzchak Aryeh Zekel Leib Wormser (1768-1847) was celebrated as the Baal Shem of Michelstadt due to his reputation as a master of occult powers and who rigorously followed an ascetic, Chassidic way of life.