Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Raziel Hamalach - Personal Copy Belonging to Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein

Opening: $400
Sold for: $2,500
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Sefer Raziel Hamalach - "This is the book of Adam given to him by the angel Raziel" - Kabbalistic content and holy names. "Segula to have intelligent children, success and blessing, and to prevent fire from overtaking his home…". Lemberg (Lviv), 1865.
Many stamps of R. "Yechezkel Levenstein - Yeshivat Mir - Menahel Ruchani"; "Yechezkel Levenstein - Yeshivat Ponevezh - Menahel Ruchani".
R. Yechezkel Levenstein (1885-1974) was one of the great leaders of the mussar (ethical) movement. He was a student in the Kelm Talmud Torah and Menahel Ruchani (principal) of the Mir Yeshiva in Poland, Shanghai and Jerusalem. After the passing of R. Eliyahu Dessler he was appointed Menahel Ruchani of Yeshivat Ponevezh in Bnei Brak. He was a holy and righteous man who was known for his connection to G-d and his abstention from the pleasures of this world (for example, he was never seen to lean back in his seat). The effectiveness of his blessings was well known. During the Holocaust, when the Mir Yeshiva travelled to Vilna and Russia and to the Far East, his students saw that he clearly received Heavenly guidance, and his decisions and blessings were channeled through a Heavenly source. He was a great Kabbalistic scholar, but he hid this knowledge and would deliver only ethical discourses in public, so that many people assumed that he had no Kabbalistic knowledge. Several books were published based on his discourses: "Ohr Yechezkel", "Imrei Yechezkel", "Avodat Yechezkel" and others.
[33] leaves. 25 cm. Good quality thin paper. Fair condition. Stains and wear, signs of extensive use. Worming on the text. Binding slightly worn.
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