Kol Yehuda – Ba’al HaKetavim, Jerusalem, 1977. By the wondrous Gaon Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz, with ...

Kol Yehuda – Ba’al HaKetavim, Jerusalem, 1977. By the wondrous Gaon Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz, with many additions in his holy handwriting!
The renowned Kabbalist, Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz (1922-2010), was born in Satmar and was a student of Rabbi Yoel of Satmar and of Rabbi Yehuda Rosner, the Av Beit Din of Sekelheid, author of Imrei Yehuda. Rabbi Leibowitz spent many years in the shadow of the tzaddikim of his generation. He immigrated to Eretz Israel after the Holocaust and became a disciple of the greatest Kabbalists of that generation, including the Admo"r Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ashlag, author of Hasulam.

Rabbi Leibowitz was also in close contact with other Torah giants, including the Admo"r Rabbi Aharon Rokach of Belz, and the Admo"r Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Sanz-Klausenburg, who greatly respected him and considered him one of the 36 hidden tsaddikim. His published works include: Kol Yehuda Ba’al HaKetavim, VeZot Le’Yehuda, Yizal Mayim Me’Delyo and Or Levi Ziv Yehuda.

This copy is one that the author donated to the Belz court, and has hundreds of additions and supplements in the author’s handwriting, some with his signature. There are also long chiddushim and Torah thoughts that he heard from his rabbis, including Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ashlag, the Kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Ya’ir Weinstock and the Admo"rs of Sadigura and Bohosh.

At the beginning of the book are two interesting additions in Rabbi Leibowitz’s handwriting, one about his escape from the talons of the Nazis, and the second in praise of Rabbi Aharon of Belz.

205 pages

The structure of the book is unique, as most of it is photocopies of handwritten pages bound together, and throughout the book the author has glued in slips of paper and additions. Very fine condition.