Kabbala Writings. In the Handwriting of the Tzaddik Menachem Mendel ben Baruch Bendit MiShklov, who was of the ...

Kabbala Writings. In the Handwriting of the Tzaddik Menachem Mendel ben Baruch Bendit MiShklov, who was of the Primary Disciples of the Gra.
Includes four handwritten annotations in the margins.

38 lines per side of the page. Mint condition.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel MiShklov was a disciple of the Vilna Gaon (The Gra), and attended to him in his latter years. Rabbi Menachem Mendel, together with the Gra’s sons, was very active in bringing his Teacher’s writings to print. Rabbi Menachem Mendel was among the first of the Gra’s disciples to make his way to the Holy Land. He first settled in Tiberias in 1838, where a Hassidic community had already been established. He later continued on to Safed, and finally to Jerusalem where he founded the ‘Perushim’ community.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel absorbed much of his wisdom in Kabbala from his Teacher, and similarly studied and taught the Kabbalistic teachings of the Holy Ari zt”l. The following is only a small sample of the writings in this paper, that are Kabbalistic teachings and words of Rabi Shimon bar Yochai: “Charity is great as it transforms the trait of cruelty to pity, specifically giving charity confidentially…”

Rabbi Menachem Mendel authored many compositions that remained unprinted for many years, and were only recently brought to print. One of his books on Kabbala, printed in Warsaw in 1916, was ‘Mayim Adirim, ’ on ‘Adera Zutra’. Rabbi Menachem Mendel’s primary disciple, Rabbi Yitzchak Eizek Chaver, wrote a commentary on this. Rabbi Menachem Mendel’s sefer ‘Menachem Zion’, a commentary on ‘Adera’, was printed in Premishal in 1885.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel passed away in 1827 in Jerusalem and is buried on Har HaZeitim.

Size: 31cm.