Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Likutei Moshe Ya'akov (The Shoemaker Tzaddik) – Tel Aviv, 1969

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Likutei Mashe-Ya'akov, Rabbi Moshe Ya'akov Ben Yosef Ha-Cohen Rabikov. Tel Aviv, 1969.
Homiletics on the five books of Moses, collected, printed and published (stenciled) by the author's son. "Published in one hundred copies all rights reserved by Yosef Rbvikov". Photograph of Rabbi Moshe Ya'akov Rbvikov on Introduction leaf.
The shoemaker – Rabbi Moshe Ya'akov Rabikov (1874-1967) was born in Lithuania and made aliya to Eretz Yisrael in 1913. An outstanding Kabbalic scholar, he worked as a shoemaker on Shabazi street in Tel Aviv to earn a living. Many turned to him for blessings and for advice and he was named "the Holy Shoemaker". A known charity donor. The "Chazon Ish" referred people to him.
These novellae were published by his son in a limited stenciled edition, only in 2004 were published in a fine edition. [Although he was from Lithuania he cited masters of Chasidut in his books].
Enclosed is manuscript by his disciple Rabbi Shlomo Noach Krol, Rabbi and teacher in Chemed.
[2], 460 pages, 32 cm. Good condition.
Does not appear in Bibliography Institute CD or in Winograd Rosenfeld.
Hassidism and Kabbalah
Hassidism and Kabbalah