Beit Avraham, articles on the Torah and on the Festivals and letters, by Rebbe Avraham Weinberg of Slonim. [Jerusalem, 1958].
Copy of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz, with dozens of long handwritten glosses (some signed). On the endpapers are long notes in his handwriting. Among the leaves, is a leaf in his handwriting.
The Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz (1922-2010), disciple of the author of the Sulam and one of the hidden tsaddikim of his generation, was born in the village of Satmar and studied Torah from Rebbe Yoel of Satmar and from Rabbi Yehuda Rosner Av Beit Din of Sekelheid, author of Imrei Yehuda. During the Holocaust, he lost his family in Auschwitz, suffered abuse which later prevented him from marriage and was miraculously saved from hanging. After the liberation, he moved to Eretz Israel and settled in Tel Aviv living alone. In Eretz Israel he joined a group of kabbalists, disciples of Rebbe Yehuda Leib Ashlag author of the Sulam: Rabbi Yehuda Zvi Brandvein, Rabbi Moshe Ya'ir Weinstock and Rabbi Yoseph Weinstock. Contrary to the other disciples, Rabbi Leibowitz remained anonymous for many years but had close contact with leading Torah scholars, rabbis and rebbes of his times, such as Rabbi Aharon Rokeach of Belz, Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Sanz-Kloizenburg, etc. These great individuals held him in high esteem and some of them considered him as one of the lamed vav hidden tsaddikim. In his senior years, he moved to Bnei Brak and among those who used to visit him and learn from him were Rabbi Wosner and Rabbi Mordechai Gross. Extraordinary stories are told, of his ruach hakodesh, of his ability to "read" sins in people's faces and their reparations and of people who were cured and who were delivered from trouble by his intervention on their behalf. People say that he merited the appearance of the Prophet Eliyahu and that the souls of tsaddikim came to visit him. He was an outstanding Torah genius, proficient in revealed and hidden Torah and his letters were printed in the books: Kol Yehuda Ba'al HaKetavim, V'Zot L'Yehuda, Yizal Mayim MeDalyo, Or Levi Ziv Yehuda, etc.
[12], 277 pages (lacking title page) + [5] pages in his handwriting (on the endpapers). 23 cm. Good condition. Stains. Damages and worming to binding.