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Three wonderous letters, full of heavenly revelations and loaded with blessings, handwritten and signed by the Mekubal, the hidden Tzaddik Rabbi Yosef Waltuch – sent to his close friend, the Gaon and wonderous Tzaddik, Rabbi Yehuda Zerachya Segal, Rav of Kiryat Shalom in Tel Aviv – Tammuz, 1958. Verified stories about the giants of Chassidus, handwritten by the holy Rabbi Yosef Waltuch. In these letters, Rabbi Waltuch discloses the powers of the Tzaddikim of his generation: Rabbi Moshe Mordechai of Lelov and the hidden Tzaddik Rabbi Yehuda P’tilon. This lot contains three handwritten letters, written and signed by the hidden Tzaddik, the holy Rabbi Yosef Waltuch. One larger, and the other two relatively smaller. All three bear his signature, where in the larger letter he signs using his mother’s name: The s. Yosef, son of Sarah Etya”, and on the other two he uses his last name: “The s. Yosef Waltuch”. At the opening of the large letter he sends his blessings for “healing and salvations and good and joyous life, and all good Selah” . Further in the letter Rabbi Waltuch tells a wonderous tale of his grandfather, the holy Rabbi Yechiel of Zolochiv, who was accustomed to having his holy father, Rabbi Yitzchak of Drohobych, revleal himself to him every nigh to study together. Once, he did not come for three days, and later his father revealed to him that this was because a poor and suffering man had come to him asking that he pray for his salvation. However, instead of Rabbi Yechiel praying for him and invoking heavenly mercy, he instead began to comfort him and to tell him that all that Hashem does is for the good, and that he should be happy with his suffering because they serve to erase the sins. His father told him that in heaven they were not pleased with this, for he should have advocated for that man and invoked mercy and merit, as was the way taught by the holy Rebbe of Berdichev, “and the Israelites are favored for they are called His sons “. In the second letter, Rabbi Waltuch reveals some of the hidden secrets of Hashem: “They told me in a dream that they want to take one great Tzaddik from this world, and there is need to beg mercy for this that no Tzaddik should go missing from this world”. Further on he tells that his friend, the hidden Tzaddik Rabbi Yehuda P’tilon “was told in a dream by two old sages that there is a decree on the ‘enemies of Israel’ G-D forbid, and charity and repentance annuls all decrees. And they did not say to him regarding prayer, for he himself is the pillar of prayer…” He concludes the second letter with a blessing: “and we shall be written and sealed in the book of complete Tzaddikim, immediately for good and peaceful life” . In the third letter, Rabbi Waltuch gives his friend Rabbi Segal a suggestion regarding meriting viable progeny: “I would suggest his honor to approach the Lelover Rebbe Shlita (the holy Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Biderman of Lelov) and to give him a clearly detailed Kvittel for sons. And with the help of Hashem, may He be blessed, you will have a great salvation from heavens with sons and life and abundant livelihood.” The hidden Tzaddik, Rabbi Yosef Waltuch (1922-1983) was a descendant of the Maggid Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zlotchow. Was one of the leaders of the group of hidden Tzaddikim of Tel Aviv, including “the Cobbler” (Rabbi Moshe Yaakov Rabikov), “the bricklayer” (Rabbi Avraham Fisch), “the Painter” (Rabbi Yehuda P’tilon) and more. Rabbi Waltuch frequented the gravesites of Tzaddikim and the holy sites, even when it was dangerous to be there, and worked miracles with his prayers. Suffered from physical ailments all his life, and, like many of the hidden Tzaddikim, did not merit children. As his wife was hospitalized throughout most of their married years due to an ailment. Despite this, he served Hashem with extreme joy. Stories of wonderous miracles and heavenly revelations which he received were abundant already within his lifetime. Passed away suddenly after collapsing in the “Idra” cavern. Rabbi Ben Tzion Mutzafi Shlita, who merited to know him, writes of him: “… He was a great Torah scholar, a Chassid, pious, humble, and unassuming; he suffered ailments and kept himself hidden… I merited to study with him and there was much, an entire flask overflowing with all delicacies of the Torah, Talmud and Medrashim, Zohar and Kabbalah, elucidators and Mussar Seforim, Poskim and Halachic Seforim – all was organized in his mind. He was greatly knowledgeable in current events and in the history of our nation. There was not a single sage who had lived in any generation whatsoever, or any author which he, Rabbi Yosef Waltuch OBM, did not know his name and the period he lived in. Gave honor to all the Torah sages who rest in the earth, and, lehavdil, to those who are alive. Knew suffering, ailments, and bore them all in silence. Wandered from place to place with his Seforim and Tallis-and-Tefillin with him.