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New Years Greetings from the Rebbe to the kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Woltuch. Slichot 1954 - Typewritten letter from the Rebbe on official letterhead, with new years’ greetings, with handwritten addition of the Rebbe “letter received” note, from Slichot of 1954. Addressed to the Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Woltuch, wishing him “as we reach the new year…I bless him and his family a ketiva and chatima tova for a good and sweet year in gashmiyus and ruchniyus…”. Signed by hand. Creases, stains, tears in the margins without damage to text. Rabbi Yosef Woltuch was a descendent of Rabbi Yehiel Michal of Zlotchow. In his youth he lived in the Old City of Jerusalem, and every day he would sneak into the Beit El kabbalistic yeshiva, study the ways of the kabbalists, and sleep very little. His minhag was to lay next to the graves of tzaddikim and he merited wonderful visions and sight of the souls of tzaddikim.