Bidspirit auction | MENACHEM MENDEL OF SHKLOV. Autograph

MENACHEM MENDEL OF SHKLOV. Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew [on Kabbalistic topics] Single leaf (two lengthy full pages). Some staining. Bound into modern boards, Folio. (Jerusalem), c. 1824. R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov (1750-1827) was the outstanding disciple of the Vilna Gaon. He emigrated to Eretz Israel in 1808 where he led the community of the Gaon’s followers, the Ashkenazim-Perushim initially in Tzfat and then Jerusalem. The present manuscript was unearthed among R. Menachem Mendel’s Kabbalistic writings, recently discovered in Jerusalem and subsequently published (Kithvei HaGrM”M Za”L).