Manuscript, Kabbalistic Kuntress [21] Leaves Handwritten by Kabbalist Yehudah Ptayah

Manuscript, Kabbalistic Kuntress [21] Leaves Handwritten by Kabbalist Yehudah Ptayah

"I would ask each and every one of our Jewish brethren studying Saba D'Mishpatim, upon completing their studies, to study this drush each and every time, because it is not without merit" (from Rabbi Yehudah Ptayah's introduction at the beginning of this kuntress)

Complete Kabbalistic drush, entirely [21 pp] handwritten by the leading Kabbalist of recent generations, the G-dly Kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Ptayah, who shook the world with his sefarim and his wonders. [Jerusalem, pre-1939]. Printed in Sefer Saba D'Mishpatim (Jerusalem, 1939), in the drushim section.

Saba D'Mishpatim is one of the famous three passages in the Zohar HaKadosh [alongside the Adarot]. It was written during parashat Mishpatim [hence its title] when the 'Saba' [-a Heavenly being] came to the Tana'im and revealed to them, through riddles he asked them, secrets of Creation and reincarnation. Many commentaries have been written by Kabbalists on Saba D'Mishpatim. Kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Ptayah also wrote his own commentary to Saba D'Mishpatim (Jerusalem, 1939; refer to the photocopy) after which he wrote this drush here, which, according to what Rabbi Ptayah himself writes at the beginning of the kuntress, is worthwhile to study each time one completes reading Saba D'Mishpatim.

This is the entire drush, from the preface at the beginning to the short colophon at the end of the drush: "Rabbi Chanina etc. Drush 1 is complete; following is Drush 2, written with the first drush to judge the Jewish people in the Diaspora favorably." Indeed, after the end of the drush, Rabbi Ptayah begins a different drush which spans two leaves and ends in the middle of the last page but does not continue [the sefer does print the continuation].

The segulah of Sefer HaZohar is known to be in the act of reading it, especially reading the Adarot and Saba D'Mishpatim which are the important parts of the Zohar, as revealed by the Ar"i and his close disciples. This is a complete drush composed by the Kabbalist of recent generations on Saba D'Mishpatim. At the beginning, Rabbi Ptayah himself hints at its importance and segulah: "It is not without merit"!! Manuscripts by tzaddikim of the generations are known to be used as amulets. How much more so this sacred writing by the leading Kabbalist, on the deepest Kabbalistic concepts with blessings and sacred Names along its entire length, in his own hand.

21 leaf, 21x12 cm, entirely in Rabbi Ptayah's penmanship. in pencil. His sacred and clear fingerprints appear along the kuntress, as ink leaked from the quill.

Very fine condition.