Auction 51 Part I - Books Chassidism Manuscripts Rabbinical Letters

Letter by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Moshe Ferrera of Jerusalem

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Autograph letter signed by the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Moshe Ferrera. Calligraphic handwriting, Rashi script and scribal writing. Jerusalem, 1902.
Letter of thanks and blessing on receiving 5 francs from a "close good neighbor" Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Moshe Ferrera (c. 1840-1917) son of renowned kabbalist Rabbi Aharon Refael Chaim Moshe Ferrera, [died in 1887, author of Toldot Aharon V'Moshe and Efer Moshe and Me'il Kodesh V'Bigdei Yesha on Etz Chaim by Rabbi Chaim Vital. See: "Bigdei Kodesh Asher L'Aharon, published by Ahavat Shalom, Jerusalem, 1994], in 1848, ascended with his father to Jerusalem from Salonika. He was a Jerusalem kabbalist and Torah sage and belonged to the Beit El community. He was raised by his great father and immersed in his great kabbalist knowledge, studying Torah and dedicating his life to G-d's service. He delivered a discourse every evening in a yeshiva for working men in the Old City. He was a scribe for the Bet El Kabbalist Yeshiva, wrote and copied Kabbalistic books of the Rashash as well as his father's books and earned his living by writing amulets. Wrote several mussar books in Ladino, published his father's book Me'il HaKodesh U'Bigdei Yesha (Jerusalem, 1888).
Leaf, 22 cm. Good condition. Filing holes.
Jerusalem and Eretz Israel - Ledgers of Emissaries and Institutions, Letters and Documents, Printed Material
Jerusalem and Eretz Israel - Ledgers of Emissaries and Institutions, Letters and Documents, Printed Material