“I will rejoice deeply with Hashem … for he has dressed me in a garment of salvation … like a bridegroom exalted with splendor and a bride bedecked with jewelry”
* Felt kippah worn by the Rebbe in his pure head, and under which he served his Creator with devotion, sanctity and purity. It is hard to overstate the value of such a sacred and important item! (The lining of the kipah is imprinted with the word “Rabbeinu.”)
The segulah of all of a tzaddik’s belongings is well-known, tried-and-true. As brought in the book Divrei Torah by the Minchat Elazar of Munkacs (first edition, sections 22-23) as follows: “We have found this custom among the tzaddikim, our rabbis and our ancestors – that they considered the vessels used by tzaddikim to have much significance, and some tzaddikim and Chassidim paid huge sums for them. The source for this is in the Yerushalmi – an item used by a tzaddik, even a material item, gives one knowledge, and all the more so, many benefits of this world.” How much more so these garments, worn by this pure body of a tzaddik with nothing intervening, capable of bringing about healing, stated in the name of the Rebbe Rabbi Moshe of Kossov, author of Lekket Ani : “All items that come from a holy person, if worn by a person who is ill, Heaven forbid, the external force flees from his and he recovery comes on its own.” All the more so the kippah that spends the entire day on the tzaddik’s head, the chariot of the Shechinah HaKedoshah , as it says, ” V’al Roshi Shechinat E=l. ”
In Jewish communities across the Diaspora, people have sought to wear a kippah that was used by tzaddikim at special life-cycle occasions (ritual circumcision, redemption of a firstborn, wedding) as an auspicious omen, especially kippahs that were worn by rabbinic leaders of the generations. The kippahs were usually the property of the tzaddikim’s descendants, or that of wealthy people who paid large fortunes for them and they would generously lend them to the celebrants (until unsavory characters desired these sanctified items for themselves and they ceased to be lent out). The owners of the garments themselves would wear them as a segulah also on the high holidays – on Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur, or when ill, Heaven forbid, as it says in Otzar Yu”d HaChayim (section 280): “There is a pure source for tzaddikim who are particular to wear on Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, etc, a garment that belonged to earlier tzaddikim – refer to the Yerushalmi Ta’anit Chap.4 Halachah 1 etc.”
Overall condition: Very fine.
Signed authorization included, handwritten by his personal attendant over his final years, Rabbi Shalom Ya’akov Yisrael Vyshurun Kahana, regarding the authenticity of these items and that all came to him in an upright manner, with authority and proper supervision.
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