Auction 15
Lot 250:
Sefer Tikkunei Zohar – part one with the HaSulam commentary. With ownership stamp and long glosses [mainly on the HaSulam commentary] by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Zev Leibowitz. | Rabbi Yehuda Zev Leibowitz [1921-2010]. A member of the group of Kabbalists [students of the Ba’al HaSulam], along with Rabbi Yehuda Zvi Brandwein, Rabbi Moshe Yair Weinstock and his brother Rabbi Yosef Weinstock. In contrast to them, Rabbi Leibowitz remained anonymous, and very few people knew about his greatness in both the revealed and hidden Torah. He was engaged before the Second World War, but never married after his fiancé was murdered in the Holocaust. [Some claim that he was unable to marry due to the horrors he endured in the Holocaust]. For decades he lived alone in a single room on Hebron Street, near the Trumpeldor cemetery in Tel Aviv, and worked as a road measurer for the Tel Aviv municipality. At the beginning of the 1990’s he moved to Bnei Brak, and lived with the Kabbalist Rabbi Chaim David Stern, grandson of the Kabbalist Rabbi Chaim Moshe Mendel. Rabbi Leibowitz kept in close contact with Rabbi Aharon Rokeach, the Belzer Rebbe, and corresponded with the Rebbe Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Sanz, who even quoted him in his books. He was also close to the Ruzhin Rebbes who resided in Tel Aviv – Sadigura, Bohosh and Husiatyn. Rabbi Shmuel Wosner, Rabbi Mordechai Gross and others would visit him and discuss halacha and Kabbalah with him. His books: Torat Yehuda Zev, Or Levi, Ziv Yehuda and Vayizel Mayim Midlayav. | Moth signs. [10], 393 pages. 24 cm. | Overall condition: Very good.
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