Bidspirit auction | !אש שחורה על גבי אש

!אש שחורה על גבי אש לבנה Gloss in the Holy Handwriting of the Ish HaElokim, Rabbeinu the Maharshal, on the Margin of the Mizrachi’s Commentary on Rashi on the Torah – A Segulah to Repel Klipos and External Forces! Presented here is a leaf from the Ra’em's commentary on Rashi on the Torah, Parashas Bechukosai, printed in Venice, 1527, from the personal copy studied by Rabbeinu the Maharshal – Rabbeinu Shlomo Luria, author of Yam Shel Shlomo. In the margin is a six-line gloss in the Maharshal’s holy handwriting, which was later printed in his sefer Yeri’os Shlomo (Prague, 1609) on Rashi on the Torah, in Parashas Bechukosai, under the entry beginning “Mah ShePireish Rashi.” Rabbeinu Shlomo Luria, known as the Maharshal (1510–1573), was among the great pillars of halachic ruling upon whom all of Klal Yisrael relied. His renowned works include Yam Shel Shlomo on various tractates of the Talmud, Chochmas Shlomo – glosses on the Talmud, and Shu”t Maharshal. He served as Av Beis Din and Rosh Yeshiva in several major Jewish communities of Lithuania, Volhynia, and Poland, including Brisk, Ostroh, and Lublin. Many of the generation’s leading Geonim were his disciples. His name is revered with holy awe by the mouths of the Geonim and Tzaddikim of the generations. His close friend, the Rema, corresponded with him extensively. In one responsum (Siman 5), the Rema writes: “Fortunate is the generation in whose midst he dwells… humble like Hillel, any bird flying over him while he learns Torah would be burned, like Yonasan ben Uziel… ” In his approbation to Chochmas Shlomo, the Rema writes of him: “Go out and behold, O daughters of Zion, the King Shlomo, with the crown with which Hashem adorned him with His Torah… It is fitting to rely upon him like Moshe from the mouth of the Almighty in his ascent” . In Shu”t Chavos Yair by Rabbi Yair Chaim Bachrach (Siman 43), he writes to a rav who wished to dispute the Maharshal: “I will speak this time only to defend the honor of the Gaon [i.e., the Maharshal], may his rest be honorable, and his pure soul which without doubt came from the World of Atzilus… for it was already testified about him that if Torah were forgotten from Israel, he would restore it through his pilpul… I cannot agree with him, yet Heaven forbid that I stretch forth my hand against Hashem’s anointed… ” In Sefer Pi Tzaddik (Tchasinov, p. 277), it is recorded that, according to the directive of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, it was inscribed on his tombstone: “From the holy quarry of the Gaon Maharshal, ” because mentioning the Maharshal’s name is a segulah to repel klipos and chitzonim from the soul of the deceased. Such inscriptions were carved on many tombstones of the Tzaddikim of the Sanz dynasty. The holy Gaon Rabbi Yehuda’le of Dzhikov said that one must feel fear and dread when mentioning the Maharshal’s name aloud (Zichron Yehuda, p. 64). [1] Leaf. 30 cm. Bound in a handsome leather binding.