Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Kabbalistic Manuscripts – Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah
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Handwritten leaves from a Kabbalistic composition, commentary on Etz Chaim by Rabbi Chaim Vital. In the handwriting of the well-known Mekubal Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah, author of Beit Lechem Yehuda. These sections are apparently part of a composition which was never printed.
Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah (1859-1942) was a leading Mekubal and scholar, a disciple of the Ben Ish Chai. After moving to Jerusalem in 1934, he studied at Rabbi Sadeh's Yeshiva for Kabbalists together with his friend Rabbi Ya'akov Chaim Sofer, author of Kaf HaChaim. A Torah authority and Mekubal, author of the books Beit Lechem Yehuda and Matok LaNefesh and others. He dealt extensively in Kabbalistic Tikunim and amulets and for many years removed Dibbuks and "Evil Spirits" as he himself relates in his book HaRuchot Mesaprot. During World War II, he wrote Kabbalistic prayers and Tikunim and organized prayer ceremonies of leading Kabbalists to save those who dwelled in Eretz Israel from the Nazi enemy. He died in Av 1942.
10 written pages (Leaves 27-31 from the composition), 21 cm. Good condition. Autographic writing of the author, with erasures, additions and corrections.
Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah (1859-1942) was a leading Mekubal and scholar, a disciple of the Ben Ish Chai. After moving to Jerusalem in 1934, he studied at Rabbi Sadeh's Yeshiva for Kabbalists together with his friend Rabbi Ya'akov Chaim Sofer, author of Kaf HaChaim. A Torah authority and Mekubal, author of the books Beit Lechem Yehuda and Matok LaNefesh and others. He dealt extensively in Kabbalistic Tikunim and amulets and for many years removed Dibbuks and "Evil Spirits" as he himself relates in his book HaRuchot Mesaprot. During World War II, he wrote Kabbalistic prayers and Tikunim and organized prayer ceremonies of leading Kabbalists to save those who dwelled in Eretz Israel from the Nazi enemy. He died in Av 1942.
10 written pages (Leaves 27-31 from the composition), 21 cm. Good condition. Autographic writing of the author, with erasures, additions and corrections.
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