A segula book! Siddur of the Rashash, section 1. Second edition, Jerusalem 1916.
Prayerbook steeped in kabbalah, the Rashash siddur, 1st sections Prayers for weekdays.
with many kabbalistic kavanot and tzirufim of letters to form Hashem’s name based in mysticism on most prayers, by “Rabbi Shalom Sharabi…a siddur of true kavanot for all of the prayers, this section published by Hitorerut Chochmei Yeshivat Shaar HaShamayim.”
Approbations from leading kabbalists of the period, the Admor of Munkatch Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Shapira (the Darchei Tshuva), who notes the segula properties of the siddur. [2], 86 leaves.
stains overall good condition.
Handwritten signature of the kabbalist “Rabbi Yosef Woltuch of Jerusalem”. With signs of use and tears among the pages of the siddur.
Rabbi Yosef Woltuch was a descendent of Rabbi Yehiel Michal of Zlotchow. 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 numbers of people who went. 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 for 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 repaired 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.
