Auction 10
Lot 295:
On the Torah and the words of Chazal, Gemara, Midrash, Tehillim, Zohar, and writings of the Ari and students of the Ba’al Shem Tov. The book is in the form of copies of many documents and chiddushim written by typewriter. At the beginning of the book are 2 pages glued in with the handwriting and signature of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze’ev Leibovitz (1922-2010), student 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. During the Shoah he lost he 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 in paving roads. In Israel he joined the kabbalist movement of the students 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 Sanza-Klausenberg, and more. They appreciated him greatly and thought him one of the 36 hidden tsaddikim. In his old age he moved to Bnei Brak, 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 books “Kol Yehuda ba’al HaKetavim,” “v’Zot L’Yehuda,” “Yizal Mayim Midlav,” and more. Generally very good condition, the spine is a little defective. With the book “Yalkut HaGershoni” (Sighet 1922). With one line handwritten by the Kabbalist Rabbi Haim Moshe Mendel. He was born in Bistritz, Romania, in 1902. Student of the Ba’al HaKeren L’David, was very close with the Chazon Ish, and the Rav Yoel of Satmar. He received smicha for teaching and law by sages of Hungary, in his youth he dealt in Kabbalah, before the Shoah he was a dayan in Timișoara, after he was saved from the Shoah he moved with his family to Israel in 1945. He lived modestly and in hidden all his days, he became famous as a miracle worker and many sought him out, including sages and Admorim of Vizhnitz, Amnishov, Belz, Maran HaRav Shach, the tsaddikim Rav Yosef Waltuch, Rav Avraham Fish, Rav Yehuda Ze’ev Leibovitz, Rav Yaakov Moshe Revikov, and more. His son in law, tsaddik and Kabbalist Rav David Stern shlita, among his students in Kabbalah were Rav Yisrael Eliyahu Winter. In 2011 was published by his grandson Meir Yosef Stern the book “Her’eh L’Einav” on his family history and traditions. Anterior binding and spine are defective and disconnected, a little moth damage and stains, generally good condition.
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