Auction 62
Lot 117:
Sefer Etz Chaim with the elucidations of Ba’al Hasulam, the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ashlag, Panim Me’irot and Panim Masbirot, the Jerusalem 1969 edition. Original binding, stained. Moth perforations and stains. Good overall condition.
On the title page, the stamp of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda ze’ev Leibovitz and on the guard leaf, a dedication handwritten by him: ""מתנתא דתורה" לכבוד הרבני המיוחס הגאון רבי יוסף בן מוהר"ר שמחה בונם שליט"א. לס’ כי אני י’ רופאך תשל"ד".
The Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze’ev Leibovitz (1922-2010), disciple of the Ba’al HaSulam and a tsaddik and mysticist of his generation; he was born in Satmar, he studied by the Admor Rabbi Yoel of Satmar and Rabbi Yehuda Rosner, the Av Beit Din of Sekelid, the Imrei Yehuda. Lost his family in Auschwitz and after his liberation moved to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv, where he lived alone in a single room, and at the advice of the Chazon Ish worked nights paving roads. In Israel he joined the kabbalist movement of the disciples of the Admor Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ashlag, the Ba’al Hasulam, Rabbi Yehuda Zvi Berndwein, Rabbi Moshe Ya’ir Weinstock, and Rabbi Yosef Weinstock. Contrary to them, he remained a widower for many years, but had constant connection with the Admor Rabbi Aharon Rokach of Belz, the Admor Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Sanz-Klausenberg, and more. They appreciated him greatly and thought him one of the 36 hidden Tzaddikim. In his old age he moved to Bnei Berak. Among those who tended to visit him and study with him were Rav Wasner and Rav Mordechai Gross. Stories of miracles are told about him. He was a wonderful genius in Torah, the revealed and mystical sides of it, and his letters are printed in the books Kol Yehuda Ba’al HaKetavim, VeZot LiYehuda, Yizal Mayim Midlav, ” and more.
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