Bidspirit auction | Rare and holy! Tabbak (tobacco)

Rare and holy! Tabbak (tobacco) box from Hrh”k Rabbi Moshe of Leluv, from the unique items in the World of Chassidut. - Tobacco box from Hrh”k Rabbi Moshe of Leluv zy”a, known and famous in the world of Chassidut as one of the very holy and unique items. among all the holy artifacts, the unique (tabbak) tobacco box is an inheritance from sages of generations, of which great Chassidic sages quoted many great and clandestine rituels on them. Hrh”k Rabbi Moshe of Leluv arrived to Jerusalem with the famous Aliya from Poland in the year 1850, with the purpose of bringing closer the salvation and bringing Mashiach Tzidkainu, but after 72 days of arriving to Eretz Yisrael, he passed away and his intention was not fulfilled. His tobacco box was found among the items he left behind. Great sages and admori”m used to go the home of his son Rabbi Yitzchok David of Leluv, and smell from it, as a segula for fear of heaven and redemption of great salvation. The tobacco box was inherited by his descendants, his grandson son of his daughter, HaGaon HaChassid Rabbi Betzalel Yeshaya [R' Betzalel Daayen] son of HaGaon HaChassid Rabbi Binyamin Yehuda Leib Berenstien and after him his son R' Arye Mordechei Vekselstien. Durring many long years, World Wars, hungry and bereft of everything, the great men and sages craved the inheritance to bask in its smell and absorb from its holiness. Hrh”k Rabbi Moshe Mordechei of Leluv had a practice to come from time to time to his family members, inheritors of the box, to smell and take from her a pinch of tobacco as he took pleasure of this rare and wonderful privilege. And so for many years, Hrh”k Rabbi Moshe Mordechei laid this box before him during the Yamim Noraim until today there remains in the corners of the box left over tobacco, from which many Great sages of Jerusalem and the righteous from the Leluv household for generations smell from. Of all these years this rare item was never released to the wider public. Picture of the holy box appeared in many publications during all generations. among them 'Ginzei Ketuvim' Jerusalem 1963, pages 14-15, Sefer HaChassidut [Alfasi] page 118, Bet Mechirot Judaica Jerusalem catalog 1996. Size 86x22x50 mm. Hrh”k Rabbi Moshe of Leluv was born in the year 1777 to his father hrh”k Rabbi David of Leluv. He was the son in law of Hrh”k the Yehudi Hakodosh of Pershischa. In the year 1803 he started replacing his father leading the courtyard and   from all over Poland they flocked to him. Amongs his famous students where hrh”k the 'Tiferet Shlomo' of Radomsk. Hrh”k the 'Beair Moshe' of Koznitz said on him: ”Want to look at the profile of Moshe Rabbainu – look at him” ”הרוצה לראות את צורתו של משה רבינו- יסתכל עליו”. He was from the founders of Kolel Warsaw Poland –Jerusalem. In the year 1851 he ascended to Jerusalem saying that if he merits to reach the Kotel he will hasten the final redemption. His student Hrh”k the Tiferet Shlomo of Radomsk said he longed to ascend to Eretz Yisrael because he is ”בעלה דמטרוניתא”  Like Yosef HaTzadik (and indeed he passed away Parashat ”Vayechi” in which is the passing of Yosef HaTzadik). Hrh”k Rabbi Yisrael of Rizhen recommended on his traveling: ”אין ”פולין” (ראויה) לאור הנר”. When he arrived to Eretz Yisrael he became sick, and when he saw that his condition worsened he requested to be dragged with his bed to the Kotel. But when he neared the Kotel the Satan succeeded and Arabs threw stones at them and they had to return, that day the 13th day of Teves 1851 he passed away and was laid to rest next to the grave of Zecharie HaNavi. Hrh”k Rabbi Chaim of Sanz said to the ”גוטער יוד”  Of Nuestadt: R' Moshes of Leluv was 3 years before his travels in the upper world, and couldn't take the air of foreign nations. His students: The Tiferes Shlomo of Radomsk, Rabbi Yaakov of Vidama, Rabbi Emanuel of Pshedburz, ”Emes L'Yaakov” Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok of Blendov, Rabbi Hillel of Radishitz, and more. His sons: Harh”k Rabbi Shlomo Yechial (son-in-law Rabbi Yosef of Tartchin son of the ”Chozeh of Lublin”) passed away by 22 years during his father's life. Hrh”k Rabbi Yitzchok David. Hrh”k Rabbi Elazer Menachem Mendel replaced and continued as Admo”r of Lelov. Son in laws: Rabbi Efrayim Fishel HaKohen of Stekshin zt”l (grandson of Hrh”k R' Shimon of Yarislova) Rabbi Yitzchok Menachem of Valbrum. (Grandson of the ”Ohr L'Shemayim” of Apta) zy”a vaky”a. ספרי החסידות מלאים במקורות לגבי קדושת חפצי הצדיקים. הבאנו אך מקורות אחדים לחשיבות חפצי צדיקים:  במדרש רבה שיר השירים פ”א על הפסוק לריח שמניך טובים: ובית מדרשו של ר”א היה עשוי כמין ריס ואבן אחת היתה שם והיתה מיוחדת לו לישיבה, פעם אחת נכנס ר' יהושע התחיל ונושק אותה האבן ואמר האבן הזאת דומה להר סיני וזה שישב עליה דומה לארון הברית... חתם סופר פרשת תולדות : ”...אבל נלע”ד דמשמע בירושלמי ר”פ ואלו מגלחין דבמלבושיו של אדם נאצלים מקדוש של הלובש וה”ה בהיפוך והלובש אותם אחריו יאצל עליו מאותו הרוח לטוב ולמוטב בסוד אשר ילבשם תחתיו מבניו...