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Letter laden with blessings in the holy handwriting of the hidden righteous Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Voltuch — written to his beloved friend, the outstanding righteous Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Zerachyah Segal, Rav of Kiryat Shalom in Tel Aviv — Elul 1965 ”כתיבה וחתימה טובה ושנה טובה ומבורכת בבני חיי ומזוני וכל טוב ויהי רצון שיתקבלו ברצון כל התפלות וכל התקיעות” The hidden Tzaddik, Rabbi Yosef Voltuch (1922–1983), was a descendant of the Maggid Rabbi Yechiel Michl of Zlotshov. He was among the leaders of the group of hidden Tzaddikim of Tel Aviv, including “the Sandlar” (Rabbi Moshe Yaakov Ravikov), “the Ratzaf” (Rabbi Avraham Fish), “the painter” (Rabbi Yehuda Patilon), and others. Rabbi Yosef Voltuch would often prostrate himself at the graves of Tzaddikim and in holy places, and would effect salvations with his Tefillah. He suffered all his life and did not merit children (as most of the “hidden ones”), and nevertheless served Hashem all his life with exalted joy. Heavenly and wondrous stories of manifestations of Ruach HaKodesh circulated about him from mouth to mouth even during his lifetime. He passed away suddenly after fainting inside the cave of “the Idra.” Rabbi Mutzafi, who merited to know him, writes about him: “…he was a great Torah scholar; he was a Chassid; he was humble and lowly of spirit; he endured many sufferings; he hid himself away… I merited to learn with him, and perhaps much — a vessel filled with all manner of Torah delicacies: Talmud and Midrashim, Zohar and Kabbalah, commentaries and Sifrei Musar, Poskim and Sifrei Halachah — everything was laid within his mind. He was also a great expert in the events of the times and the history of the chronicles of our people; there was no sage who lived in any generation, or author of a Sefer, whose name and the period of his time Rabbi Yosef Voltuch z”l, did not know. He accorded great honor to all the sages of Torah who dwell in the dust, and, to distinguish, to the living upon the earth. He knew pains and illnesses, and was silent and accepted them in stillness. He wandered from place to place, his Sefarim and his Tallis and Tefillin with him. He was acquainted with many of the Gedolei HaDor, and especially those who were like him, hidden away. He lived in a very modest room; most of his days he was solitary, for, unfortunately, his wife was ill and hospitalized. Mo’adim, Shabbasos and weekdays, he spent alone between himself and his Creator, with nothing of this world at all — even someone to launder a handkerchief or a sock. He was holy; he was a giant; and he did not agree that they should speak in his praise or know of his hidden deeds.” Folded mail letter in three sections. 27 cm. Good condition. Fold marks.