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Letter filled with blessings – “life, healing, salvations, and all good forever, V'Gmar Chatima Tovah, ” from the kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Waltuch - Letter in the sacred handwriting of the hidden righteous kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Waltuch – sent to his beloved friend, the exceptional gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Yehuda Zerachya Segal, Rabbi of “Kiryat Shalom” in Tel Aviv – Chanukah 5720 [1959] A letter filled with blessings: “life, healing, salvations, and all good forever, V'Gmar Chatima Tovah... abundant kindnesses, revealed kindnesses without any concealment — so shall be your offspring…” At the end of the letter appear two handwritten signatures: one with his family name, and the other with his mother’s name. The Hidden Tzaddik, Rabbi Yosef Waltuch (1922–1983) A descendant of the Maggid Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov. He was one of the leaders of the group of hidden tzaddikim in Tel Aviv, which included “the Sandlar” (Rabbi Moshe Yaakov Ravikov), “the Tile Layer” (Rabbi Avraham Fish), “the Painter” (Rabbi Yehuda Patilon), and others. Rabbi Yosef Waltuch frequently visited the graves of tzaddikim and other sacred sites and was known to bring about salvations through his prayers. He suffered greatly throughout his life and did not merit children (as was the case with many hidden tzaddikim), yet he served God all his days with supreme joy. Wondrous and miraculous stories of divine inspiration circulated about him even during his lifetime. He passed away suddenly after collapsing inside the “Idra” cave. Rabbi Ben Zion Mutzafi shlit”a, who merited knowing him, wrote: “…He was a great Torah scholar, a chassid, a humble and modest man, who endured much suffering and concealed himself... I merited learning with him, perhaps extensively. A jar filled with all the delicacies of Torah — Talmud and Midrashim, Zohar and Kabbalah, commentaries and ethical works, halachic rulings and legal texts — all were stored in his mind. He was also very knowledgeable in historical events and the history of our people. There was no sage from any generation, nor author of any sefer, whose name and era Rabbi Yosef Waltuch z”l did not know. He honored all Torah sages, both of the past and present. He was familiar with pain and illness and bore them silently. He wandered from place to place with only his books, tallit, and tefillin. He became acquainted with many of the great sages of the generation, especially those who were hidden and modest like himself. He lived in a very modest room. Most of his life he was alone, as his wife was, sadly, ill and institutionalized. Holidays, Sabbaths, and weekdays he spent alone with his Creator, owning nothing of this world — not even someone to wash a handkerchief or a sock for him. He was holy. He was a giant. And he never agreed that anyone speak of his greatness or reveal his hidden deeds.” Folded postal letter. 27 cm. Good condition. Stains.