LOT 266:
Pitka from the Kabbalist Rabbi Asher Zelig Margaliot
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Pitka from the Kabbalist Rabbi Asher Zelig Margaliot
Note in the handwriting and signature of the Kabbalist Gaon Rabbi Asher Zelig Margaliot. Sent to Rabbi Nachum Chaim Zahan from Tiberias.
The kabbalist rabbi Asher Zelig Margaliot (1894-1969): Learn the wisdom of Kabbalah from the greatest Kabbalists of the generation. his first rabbi was Rabbi Avraham Simcha Horowitz, the Admor of Barnov, and as a young man was the bahal tephila in his Beit Midrash in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood. Rabbi Asher Zelig served the Rav from Barniv until his death, on the 15th of Adar 1916. His second rabbi was Rabbi Chaim Shaul HaCohen Dweck, at his yeshiva (Rehovot HaNahar Yeshiva), in the Bukharan neighborhood, where he studied Kabbalah. In 1925, on the mission of Rabbi Chaim Shaul, the Riaz' traveled to Damascus and prostrated himself there on the grave of Rabbi Chaim Vital. The third rabbi of Riaz' was the "Saba Kadisha" Rabbi Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari. It is said that the "Saba Kadisha" did not shake hands with anyone other than the Admor of Munkacs and Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, but on the eve of the Sabbath, after the evening prayer, when he spoke Torah with Riaz', until the time the stars came out according to rabenu tam method, Went out of his way and extended his hand and sent him home. The Riaz' worked to publish Rabbi Alfandari's responsum, and also published his history in the introduction to the Shulchan Aruch.