Segulah for a Spouse and for Fertility: The Elder Rosh Yeshivah, the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg's Tallit ...

Segulah for a Spouse and for Fertility: The Elder Rosh Yeshivah, the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg's Tallit, with which he Wrapped himself during Prayer and as a Sandak

"And the tallit will spread its wings over them and shade them, as an eagle awakens its nest and hovers over its fledglings"

Tallit that belonged to the wondrous gaon and wonder-worker, one of the rabbinic leaders of the previous generation, Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Schenberg, rosh yeshivah of Torah Ore. The rosh yeshivah wrapped himself in this tallit for many years, and every time he served as a sandak during a ritual circumcision, as specified in the enclosed confirmation of authenticity included with this rare and important item. (Per the seller's request for privacy, we are not publicizing this authorization, but it will obviously be presented and given over to the purchaser).

Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg had a special relationship with the mitzvah of tzitzit. One of this wondrous tzaddik's wondrous ways was that he wore many pairs of tzitzit on top of each other, as well as wearing a tallit on top of his suit jacket! Even as a rosh yeshivah walking in the street, he would wear dozens of pairs of tzitzit, and when he returned home, he added another load of dozens of more tzitziyot, to the point he could hardly be seen through the mountain of tzitziyot. He never revealed the reason for wearing so many pairs of tzitzit, and he denied all the reasons and explanations that others gave for this conduct. However, there was a rumor that he took a vow at a time of distress, either as a type of self-affliction or possibly out of his affection for this mitzvah.

According to signed testimony from the seller (one of his most prominent relatives), the rosh yeshivah would wear this specific tallit not only for his daily prayers, but also whenever he served as sandak at the many ritual circumcisions he would attend, and indeed the edges of the tallit are adorned with many wine stains from the wine goblets used at these ceremonies. It is known that brit wine is an extremely potent segulah for fertility and recovery, and the tallit itself is a segulah for a spouse and for protection from damagers, as stated in Kitvei HeAr"i (Pri Etz Chaim, Sha'ar HaTzitzit, Chap. 2). Being a sandak is a huge segulah for wealth, as stated in Shulchan Aruch (Ram"a, Yoreh Deah 265:11). When the three greatest segulahs in Judaism unite under the gadol hador's tallit, there are simply no words!

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg.

Specifications: Rabbinic tallit with silk stripes at center, somewhat like the silk decorations of most tallitot that go on the wearer's head. Especially large size (so as to encompass the dozens of pairs of tzitzit that he would wear).

Very fine condition: Adorned with many wine stains from the multiple britot (as specified in the included authorization).

We shall emphasize that Rabbi Scheinberg's tzitziyot have already appeared at auction several times, but to the best of our knowledge, a tallit of his has never appeared at a public auction!