Rare, Handwritten Dedication by the Rebbe Rabbi Meir Abuhatzeira on the Book of his Uncle the Rebbe Rabbi David ...

Rare, Handwritten Dedication by the Rebbe Rabbi Meir Abuhatzeira on the Book of his Uncle the Rebbe Rabbi David Abuhatzeira
Sechel Tov –Derashot and eulogies, and kabbalist novellae on Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim. By the Rebbe, Rabbi David Abuhatzeira, who was called by the Jews of Morocco "Ateret Roshenu" (The Crown of Our Head). Jerusalem, 1923. First edition.
Printed and published after the author's death by his brother, the Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, the "Baba Sali", as detailed in his introduction to the book.
The book is enthusiastically approbated by the rabbis of Morocco: Rabbi Moshe Aturgeman and Rabbi Makhlouf Pachicha; the rabbis of Tiberius: Rabi Eliyahu Yaloz, Rabbi Ya'akov vaknin and Rabbi Ya'akov Chai Zrihan; and the rabbis of Jerusalem: Rabbi Shimin Ashriki, Rabbi Eliyahu Legimi and Rabbi Ya'akov Ben Atar.

On the empty page after the approbations and introductions, a rhymed, poetic dedication handwritten by the Rebbe Rabbi Meir Abuhatzeira. The dedication is to Rabbi Yosef Marciano.

Rabbi Meir Abuhatzeira, the eldest son of the Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira the "Bab Salli", a kabbalist, Torah and Halacha genius and miracle worker. Was known as the "Baba Meir".
At the age of 16, he started giving lessons to his father's yeshiva students. Several years after his marriage, he became the rabbi of Midelt, Morocco. The people of the city used to come to him for advice and a blessing. In 1951, the Baba Sali immigrated to Israel and Rabbi Meir replaced him as the rabbi of Erfoud. In 1963, he too immigrated to Israel yet refused to accept an official rabbinical position. He settled in Ashdod, where he diligently studied the Torah, hardly ever leaving his house, so much so that his father, in his modesty, said of him that he was greater than himself.
He died in 1983 after great suffering and is buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
Many miraculous stories are told about him. For example, it is told that during one of his journeys, the rabbi and his driver saw before them a truck loaded with water-bottles. The rabbi asked his driver to overtake the truck and signal to its driver to stop at the side of the road. The truck driver did so and the rabbi left his car and went over to the truck to talk to its driver. The rabbi asked the truck driver to sell him a bottle of water since he was very thirsty. The driver refused. The rabbi told the truck driver he would pay the price of a complete crate of water bottles for that single bottle. The truck driver refused. The rabbi continued and said he would pay the price of all the merchandise on the truck for that single bottle. However, the truck driver did not heed to the rabbi's pleas and refused to sell him a water bottle. After several miles of driving, they saw the truck lying on the road with its lifeless driver in it. Then the rabbi told his driver: "I had wanted to give him an opportunity to fulfill a Mitzvah, maybe by its merit he would have been saved from death. However, I could not tell him this. He chose death over life". ("Ma'aseh Nissim" by Rabbi Avraham Mugrabi).


[15], 123 pp. 22 cm.
Condition: Good. Single moth holes on the last leaves. Omission on the upper part of the title page.