Sacred and Awesome: Autograph of the Renowned Kabbalistic Book Beit Lechem Yehudah, Including a Heavenly Amulet ...

Sacred and Awesome: Autograph of the Renowned Kabbalistic Book Beit Lechem Yehudah, Including a Heavenly Amulet Received by Rabbi Pattiyah

"The army of armies will be rescued from the laws of the arms" (The amulet received by Rabbi Pattiyah from Heaven)

Autograph of the renowned Kabbalistic work Beit Lechem Yehudah - commentary by the G-dly Kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Pattiyah on Kitvei HeAr"i. There are five pages from this book handwritten by the G-dly Kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Pattiyah, including the preface and the colophon. At the and of the manuscript, there is a Kabbalistic discovery as never seen before: A handwritten amulet Rabbi Pattiyah received from Heaven!

These passages are, as stated, from the book by the G-dly Kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Pattiyah  - Beit Lechem Yehudah - the renowned commentary on Rabbi Chaim Vital's Etz Chaim from Kitvei HeAr"i - chapter 24 - "Perek HaTzelem, " chapters 5-6. With many additions and differences from the printed version. At the end of this manuscript, Rabbi Pattiyah wrote a colophon in the middle of the page in large letters: "I got to this point on Sunday, 10 Sivan, 1916." 

After the colophon, Rabbi Pattiyah writes in his own hand, a powerful amulet for protection, as he received from Heaven on the day he completes "Pirkei HaTzelem, " as follows: "That night, I saw that I was given a note as a test of my study like the one given by three rabbis, and this is what was written: "The army of armies will be rescued from the laws of the arms" ["צב צבאות נצול מדיני הזרועות"]. Rabbi Pattiyah does not write that this was a vision in a dream, so it is liekly that this prophetic vision was while he was awake. This wondrous passage was kept by Rabbi Pattiyah in the end for himself, and not included in the book; it is being publicized here for the first time!

Rabbi Yehudah Pattiyah, who was apparently  agitated by the vision he saw, stopped int he middle of writing the book (later continuing on for another 20 chapters), and wrote a colophon for the book, and immediately after this, he wrote the book's preface. The preface and the colophon were both printed after 17 (!) years after Rabbi Pattiyah finished writing the entire work; the preface was written, as usual, at the beginning of the book, and the colophon at the end. Obviously, the date on the printed colophon was changed from the original date in 1916 , as appears here, to 1933, when the entire book was completed. Hence we are privileged, unusually and inexplicably, in the middle of a manuscript, to see both the preface and the colophon!

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of Rabbi Yehudah Pattiyah.

[8] pp, of which [5] are written, 17x21 leaves. On the back of the manuscript, there are several notations in Arabic.

Fine condition, individual worming perforations. Ink smudges. Slight tears in the margins without lack.