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Sefer Etz Chaim by Rabbeinu Chaim Vital. The personal copy of Holy Rav Rabbi Elazar...

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Sefer Etz Chaim by Rabbeinu Chaim Vital. The personal copy of Holy Rav Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mendel of Lelov, with his handwritten glosses, corrections, comments and other Kabbalistic matters.

Sefer Etz Chaim, first edition – Koretz, 1782. A basic Kabbalistic book that had belonged to the great Tzaddik and on whose sheets he wrote several important Kabbalistic glosses.

Appearing on the title page, throughout the book and on the last leaf is his personal stamp.

On the flyleaf, the last part of his pure handwritten signature in square script.

Inside the book, corrections handwritten by him and glosses including the word Yisroel in square script.

Important approbations, including by the holy Gaon Rabbi Chaim Sanzer of Brody.

The Holy Rav Maran the Tzaddik Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mendel of Lelov [1827-1883] the son of the Holy Rav Rabbi Moshe of Lelov and the son of the daughter of the Holy Rav HaYehudi HaKaddosh MiPshischa, a sublime Tzaddik and miracle-worker who was famed for his prayers and Avodas Hashem. Well-known is the awe-inspiring story of when the pious daughter of Rabbi Elazar Mendel came to Galicia, she met with the daughter of the Holy Rav of Sanz and told her that she recalls once hearing her holy father saying to himself: מיר זענען דאך אין הומעל, האבן מיר גיזעהן אז דעם שענסטן סדר אפגירעכט רבי אלעזר מענדל מירושלים [We in Heaven have seen and realized that the ‘nicest’ Seder was conducted by Rabbi Elazar Mendel of Jerusalem]. Before us is the Passover Haggadah with the traces of his Holy Avodah.

Extensive professional restoration to the title page. Professional restoration to the edges of the first leaves, slightly affecting some words of the text. The last leaves are slightly detached from the spine of the book. Varied stains. Minor moth perforations. Good condition.

Measurement: 31 CM

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