Auction 64
Lot 28:
Kuntres Torat HaChassidut by the Rebbe Rayatz, with a short elucidation on the essence of Torat HaChassidut, as written by his son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel in the Pesher Davar at the beginning of the Kuntres: למהות תורת החסידות ומה הוא החילוק אשר בינה ובין תורת המוסר והחקירה… מסר כ"ק מו"ח אדמו"ר… את הקונטרס הנדפס בזה, המבאר בקיצור את "מהות חכמת תורת החסידות" והכרח ה"תפלה מהותה ותוכן פעולתה"". The Rebbe added some additions of his own to the Kuntres. As stated, the Kuntres was pprinted and edited by the Rebbe, by the order of the Rebbe Rayatz. First edition, New York, 1946. 32 pp. Printed title-cover.
Varied blemishes. Good condition.
On the upper part of the title page, a pencil notation: "ע"ה יוסף וואלטוך מירושלים ת"ו"
The Tzaddik Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Woltuch of Zlotchov. 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 BaOmer because of the large number of people there. 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 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 went to Safed to buy him. When Rabbi Yosef finished the blessing over the soda, he fainted, was taken to the hospital in Safed, and passed away.
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