Auction 13
Lot 291:
The first HaMa’amar issue that had the name of the Chabad Rebbe, on his wedding day, 10th of Shvat, 1951, on the cover is the signature of the Tzaddik Rav Yosef Waltuch. Light stains, generally good condition. On the night after 10th of Shvat, 1951, at the convention to celebrate the first yartzeit of the Rayatz, the Rebbe recited “Bati LeGani” and thus officially took upon huimself the leadership of Chabad Chassidut. The Tzaddik and kabbalist Rav Yosef Waltuch of Zlotshov in his youth lived in the Old City of Jerusalem and every day would secretly enter the Beit El kabbalist yeshiva, where he would study the ma’asim of the kabbalists. He barely slept, and he learned every issue very quickly and would write in every Sefer Kabbalah that he finished “Mogah.” His tradition was to go to graves of tsaddikim all over the country and he was exposed to wondrous things and he was exposed to their souls, but he would makpid not to go up to the Rashbi’s grave in Meron on Lag B’Omer because there were so many people. There is a story that because of one of his prayers to have Geula arrive, he succeeded in seeing Rachel Emeinu covered in black clothes. He met with and studied with mystical tsaddikim, was a miracle worker, and would exorcise dmeons from people. Despite his great tribulations, he studied with happiness and excitement, and people who requested blessings from him would wish “Kol HaYeshuot!” In Iyar 1983 he told his student that if God willed it he would end the week in Jerusalem, and left with two students to visit graves of tsaddikim in the Galilee. After visiting Meron, he told his students that he didn’t feel well, and after they continued to the Idra cave he prayed an hour and again said that he didn’t feel well. He asked to drink soda. The three reached Tzfat to buy soda water for him, and when he finished blessing over the water, he fainted, was rushed to the hospital in Tzfat, and he passed away, his soul returning to Hashem.
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