Auction 56
Lot 143:
Sefer HaEmunah v’HaBitachon of the Ramban. 72 pages. No binding. Worming holes. Detached indices. Overall fair condition. The title page has the signature “the holy Shalom Zvi Klein of Desh” and the handwritten signature of the kabbalist Rabbi “Yosef Woltuch of Jerusalem.”
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.
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