Silver ‘Holy tobacco case’. Personal tobacco case from the Holy Rabbi of Satmar Rabbi Yoel Tietelbaum who used this during the Holy Avodah of his pure prayers and learning.
Genuine silver, 7×3.5×1 cm. Floral and various decorations.
Certificate in Auction House from one of the scholars from the United States a disciple of the Rabbi, certifying that the Holy Rabbi of Satmar used this case for a long time during his Holy Avodah.
A tiny bit, on the significance and segulot of tobacco boxes inheritance from righteous of generations:
Hrh"k the ‘Divrei Chaim’ of Sanz had in his possession an exclusive tobacco box, though he never smelled from it. Befor ‘Kol Nidrei’ erev Yom Kippur, his son hrh"k of Czchów as child was in a very dangerous state. The daughter of the Divrei Chaim requested her father to pray for the child but the Divrei Chaim exclaimed who can think of these things in such a high moment. The daughter did not give up until her father relented and said: ‘lay the tobacco box on the child and he will yet live a long life and bring forth salvations.
Indeed when Hrh"k of Czchów recovered from his sickness he safeguarded all his life this exclusive tobacco case, and he cured many sick people, as he instructed to put this case on the body of the sick or women in childbirth. One day the exclusive tobacco case disappeared from his house! They searched in every place, but could not find it this caused him much anguish, and he discussed his distress with his brother Hrh"k of Shinova. Hrh"k told him "The son of our father does not need to rely on this tobacco case, it is in his power to bring forth salvation even without".
On the subject of repentance,
Hrh"k of Czchów inspired a youth who went astray with the tobacco case: It is told, that when Hrh"k of Czchów was in one of the villages in Hungary, someone came to him crying bitterly about his son that went astray, became a maskil (educated student) and disregarded the Torah and its commandments, not even keeping Shabbat and the like. Hrh"k advised him to see to bring his son to him, and then he will see what he can do. When the son arrived home his father asked him to come with him this one time to the Bet Hakneset. The son agreed to his request and went with his father. When at the Bet Hakneset the father showed to Hrh"k of Czchów his son, when Hrh"k saw him he ran towards him and offered him to smell from his tobacco case. It seems that for the honor of the Sage and his father he did not decline and took a pinch with his fingers and smelled the tobacco. And so it was after he smelled just a bit the good smell of the tobacco he changed and became a different person and feelings of remorse overcame him until he requested for his Tefilin that his father bought for him by his Bar Mitzva to be brought to him, which he has not put on for a very long time. From that day he fully repented and became a complete Baal Teshuva and a proper Jew.
A special tobacco case from
Hrh"k Rabbi Mordechei of Nasciz was in the posession of Hrh"k the
"Ahavas Yisrael of Viznitz", laying before him during the prayers on Yamim Noraim. Also by his son Hrh"k the
"Imrei Chaim of Viznitz" the tobacco case laid before him during all the prayers on the Yamim Noraim and from time to time he smelled from it. The Avavas Yisrael said: "I smell the case more than the tobacco…"
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