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Dec 23, 2018
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LOT 123:
A long letter from the Admor of Erlau zt "l to the kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Ze'ev Leibowitz zt" l regarding the ...
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A long letter from the Admor of Erlau zt "l to the kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Ze'ev Leibowitz zt" l regarding the fasts of sigufim "to spare the creation of his body".
A long letter by Rabbi Yohanan Sofer, Admor of Erlau, to the kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz zt "l. Jerusalem, 1997.
In the letter, the Admor asks Rabbi Leibowitz "to spare the creation of his pure body and to eat what is necessary to strengthen his body for the service of the Creator.
Later on, the Admor writes a renewal of Torah in the name of the Chatam Sofer.
The Rebbe concludes the letter with a blessing to Rabbi Leibowitz, and signs his name and adds his mother's name to the prayer: "Yochanan son of Tshana".
Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibovitch (1925-2009), a student of Baal HaSulam and one of the hidden mystics of the generation, was born in the town of Satmar. He studied by the Admor Rabbi Yoel of Satmar and Rabbi Yehuda Rosner, Av Beit Din of Skelehid author of Imrei Yehuda. During the Holocaust he lost his family in Auschwitz and after his liberation immigrated to Israel and settled in Tel Aviv, where he lived alone in a lonely room, and as the Chazon Ish advised him worked as a road Constructer.
In Israel, he joined group of kabbalists, the students of the Admor Rabbi Yehudah Leib Ashlag "Baal HaSulam", Rabbi Yehudah Tzvi Brandwein, Rabbi Moshe Yair Weinstock and Rabbi Yosef Weinstock, and unlike them he remained anonymous for many years. He remained in close contact with Rabbi Aharon Rokach of Belz , The Admor Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Sanz-Klausenburg [from his words in his books], etc., who greatly admired him and some who considered him one of the 36 hidden tzaddikim. In his old age he moved to the city of Bnei Brak. Among the people who used to visit him and study with him were Rabbi Wazner and Rabbi Mordechai Gross. Stories of wondrous miracles are told about him. He was a wonderful genius in the Torah, in the revealed and the hidden, and from his writings the books were printed: "Kol Yehuda the author of the texts" and "Zot L'Yehuda".
[1] A page written on an official blank, on both sides.
21X16.5 cm.
Very good condition. Folding marks.
