Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Letter by the Lubavitch-Chabad Rebbe to the Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Waltuch

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Letter with New Year wishes, "Ketiva ve'chatima tova for a New Year, for a good and sweet year, blessed in materiality and spirituality", by the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Chabad-Lubavitch to the Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Waltuch of Złoczew. Brooklyn, 1951.
Typewritten on official stationery, with his signature.
The Mekubal Rabbi Yosef Waltuch – "The street cleaner" (died in 1983), native of Jerusalem, Tsaddik and miracle-worker, member of a group of kabbalists who clandestinely studied together and were referred to by the name of their professions: "The shoemaker" – Rabbi Moshe Ya'akov Ravikov, "The artist" – Rabbi Yehuda Patilon (see lot no. 7), "The floor layer" – Rabbi Avraham Fish, "The milkman" – Rabbi Chaim HaCohen.
22 cm. Fair condition. Stains, restored damages within the folding marks.
Chabad – Books and Objects, Manuscripts and Letters
Chabad – Books and Objects, Manuscripts and Letters