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LOT 273:
Personal Item of Tzaddikim: The Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach's Identity Card Booklet
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Personal Item of Tzaddikim: The Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach's Identity Card Booklet
"Something used by a tzaddik, even a mundane item, grants the merit of knowledge, and all the more so, all sorts of this-worldly benefits" (The gaon Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, in a letter)
The gaon Rabbi Shmuel's identity card booklet for the pillar of the world, one of the gedolei hador of recent generations. [The previous format of the ID cards, a booklet with a cardboard cover and pages in between, like current passports.] The certificate was issued in Jerusalem, on 24 Adar 1979.
Tzaddikim's belongings have huge segulah value even after the passing of the tzaddik (see below). This is the most personal possible item, which was legally required to be carried everywhere. This sacred document was in the gaon Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach's pocket for close to twenty years (!), beginning from the year it was issued and until the late 1990s [according to the stamps on the certificate].
The last leaf of the document bears stamps from the national elections and the elections for the municipality of Jerusalem from the elections for the tenth Knesset in 1981, and through the elections for the 13th Knesset, which took place in 1992 - including the 1989 elections, which involved the historic split between Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah, of which the gaon Rabbi Shmuel was one of the principal architects, alongside the gaon Rabbi Menachem Mann Shach.
It is appropriate to note here the words from Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach's famed letter about the segulah of tzaddikim's belongings, as follows: "The matter of an item that belonged to a great person is most significant; as it says in the Yerushalmi Moed Kattan 3:5a and Yerushalmi Nedarim 9:5a, Rabbi Meir's rod was [in his hand] and it would grant him wisdom. And in Sefer Divrei Torah by the gaon of Munkacs, first edition, ot 22, which concludes as follows: An item used by a tzaddik, even a mundane one, grants knowledge, as all the more so all sorts of benefits in this world ..." Rabbi Shmuel attested that using a tzaddik's item grants "wisdom"! All the more so, benefits of the world!
[1] official booklet, [14] pp. 11x17 cm. Including the gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman's passport pictures.
Fine condition. Slight wear and tears. Original binding made of plastic with an imprint of the State's emblem.
