Auction 61
Lot 14:
The booklet "Hosafa LeDerech Mitzvotecha which is Sefer Ta’amei Mitzvot" by the Admor the author of the Tzemach Tzedek.
Thi sbooklet contains Mitzvat Ahava, table of content, references to Chassidic books, outline of the biography of the Tzemach Tzeddek and a list of his books, with his introduction to the full Derech Mitzvotecha. Published by Kehat Brooklyn for the Shanghai publication, 1946. 16 pp.
Varied blemishes. Good condition.
On the top of the cover, a pencil notation: "ע"ה יוסף וואלטוך מירושלים ת"ו"
Rabbi Yosef Woltuch was a descendant of Rabbi Yechiel Michl of Zlotchov. In his youth, he lived in the Old City of Jerusalem, and every day he would sneak into the Beit El kabbalistic yeshiva, study the ways of the kabbalists, and sleep very little. His minhag was to lay next to the graves of tzaddikim and he merited wonderful visions and sight of the souls of tzaddikim. However, he would take care not to go to Rashbi’s tomb on Lag B’Omer because of the large number of people there. It is said that during one of his prayers to bring about the Geulah he merited seeing Rachel Imenu wearing black clothes.
Despite his suffering, he worked Hashem with happiness and excitement.
In Iyar 1983 he told a student that if Hashem willed it he would settle in Jerusalem and he went with two students to daven at the graves of tzaddikim in the Galilee. When he left Meron he told them that he didn’t feel well. They continued to the Idra cave to pray, and he told them again that he didn’t feel well. He asked for some soda water, so they went to Tzfat to buy him. When Rabbi Yosef finished the blessing over the soda, he fainted, was taken to the hospital in Tzfat, and passed away.
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