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Lot 135:
Ma’aseh Rav Ha’Shalem of the Gra – manuscript by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Lipkin
Handwritten pamphlet by Ha’Gaon Ha’Mekubal Rabbi Aryeh Leib Lipkin, with an authorized copy of the sefer Ma’aseh Rav of the Gra of Vilna, send to Ha’Gaon Ha’Mekubal Rabbi Naftali Hertz Segal of Jaffa, who worked on the teaching in Kabalah of the Gaon of Vilna.
"1896 – Kretinga… additions and amendments to the sefer Ma’aseh Rav…. Copied from the manuscript found by Ha’Gaon Rabbi Hirsh Broda of Salant, and from a second manuscript in the home of my grandfather Rabbi Zev Wolf author of Haghos Ben Ari al Ha’Shas…"
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Lipkin is one of the most reliable sources of Toras Ha’Gra; therefore, the value of this manuscript is immeasurable.
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Lipkin was a nephew of the founder of the Mussar Movement Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, He was Rav in Kretinga and dealt extensively with the Gra’s teachings of Kabbalah. He published the seforim Eimrei Noam on maseches Brachos from the Gra with his own glosses to the sefer. About the year 1840 there was an awakening in Lithuania to learn kabbalah, and a large demand for the seforim of the Ramcha”l and the Gra on kabbalah. He anonymously published the seforim Adir Ba’Marom, Kalac”h Pischei Chchma, Sefer Ha’Ilan with his own commentary. His seforim are: ‘Klalei Haschalas Ha’Chochma’ the basics of kabbalah learning, sefer ‘Or Ha’Yom’ on the zemanei bein ha’shmashos according to the Gra and many other sefarim. For more details see R. Dovid Kamenetsky Yeshurin vol. 23.
5 pg. Pamphlet 9 handwritten pages. Reinforced with scotch tape.
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