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The Haggadah of the Mekubal Rabbi Yosef Walltuch: Chassidic Haggadah She'erit Hapletah with a Commentary by Baal Hahafla'ah - Kashoy, 1947 - Seder Haggadah shel Pesach, with a commentary by Rabbi Pinchas Halevi Ish Horowitz, Baal Hahafla'ah. Printed after the Holocaust for She;erit Hapletah, facsimile edition of Lviv, 1861, Vika Press, Kashoy - 1947. 44 [i.e. 42], [1] pp. Yaari 2348; Otzar Hahaggadot 4071. Original red binding with moth perforations and other blemishes. Moth perforations and stains. Good overall condition.  On the title page, the handwritten signature of the Mekubal Rabbi Yosef Walltuch: ”ב”ה ע”ה יוסף וואלטוך מעיה”ק ירושלים תובב”א”.  The Tzaddik Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Walltuch of Zlotchov . 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. However, he would take care not to go to Rashbi’s tomb on Lag BaOmer because of the large number of people there. It is said that during one of his prayers to bring about the Geulah he merited seeing Rachel Imenu wearing black clothes. Despite his suffering, he worked Hashem with happiness and excitement. In Iyar 1983 he told a student that if Hashem willed it he would settle in Jerusalem and he went with two students to pray at the graves of tzaddikim in the Galilee. When he left Meron he told them that he didn’t feel well. They continued to the Idra cave to pray, and he told them again that he didn’t feel well. He asked for some soda water, and when he finished the blessing over the soda, he fainted, was taken to the hospital in Safed, and passed away.