Amulet on parchment from the hands of the wondrous tzaddik and wonder-worker Rabbi Yeshayaleh of Kerestir, known as ‘master of the key to livelihood.’ His amulets are known to have effected supernatural miracles. “Expert person expert amulet – it is promised that all his amulets will be effective.”
Before us is one of the few surviving amulets with clear family tradition that it was given from the hands of Rabbi Yeshayaleh. This rare amulet survived in a roundabout way through all the wars and upheavals of the world from the days of Rabbi Yeshayaleh to this day. It was guarded with fearsome awe in the hands of the Stein family of Hungary (see attached confirmation). Rabbi Yeshayaleh also instructed that his amulets may be passed on from one to another; the amulets are not specific to the one to whom they are given.
The power to give amulets was received by Rabbi Yeshayaleh from his teacher, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Liska, who received it from his teacher, the author of Yismach Moshe of Ujhely, who, it is known, was very involved in distributing amulets to save the Jewish people. Rabbi Yeshayaleh would direct his scribe to write in Assyrian script, in ink on parchment. Rabbi Yeshayaleh would bless it and give it with his hands to the one who requested salvation. Holy Names are written “ילשת באשר בוליב” (on the top line). These Names are made of the alternate first letters of the verses “May there be peace within your wall, tranquility within your palaces” [“יְהִי שָׁלוֹם בְּחֵילֵךְ שַׁלְוָה בְּאַרְמְנוֹתָיִךְ”] (Psalms 122:7), and “No evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent” [“לֹא תְאֻנֶּה אֵלֶיךָ רָעָה וְנֶגַע לֹא יִקְרַב בְּאָהֳלֶךָ”] (Psalms 91:10). The second line contains the holy Names: “והאפה הב מוג ולה” which is arrived at from the initials of the verse, “And the men who were at the entrance to the house were struck with blindness from small to large, and they tried in vain to find the entrance.” “וְאֶת הָאֲנָשִׁים אֲשֶׁר פֶּתַח הַבַּיִת הִכּוּ בַּסַּנְוֵרִים מִקָּטֹן וְעַד גָּדוֹל וַיִּלְאוּ לִמְצֹא הַפָּתַח” (Bereishit 19:11).
One of the means at Rabbi Yeshayaleh’s disposal was the writing of amulets and giving them so that salvation and would be enacted in a supernatural fashion, and to protect those who merited such along with them as well as their progeny, from all straits and distress. The amulet effected miracles especially in the realm of livelihood, stunning open miracles which were related by word of mouth with awestruck reverence. The book Mofet HaDor tells of an event that occurred to a laundromat owner with a non-Jewish competitor who harassed him. Rabbi Yeshayaleh gave him an amulet like the one before us. The owners of the competing laundromat sent a youth to set fire to his laundromat, and the youth was “struck with blindness” and couldn’t find the Jewish laundromat. He mistakenly set the non-Jewish competitor’s laundromat on fire. There is evidence published that whoever held this amulet during the Holocaust miraculously survived. Rabbi Aharon Friedman ztz”l of Bnei Brak had an amulet like this one, which he received from the hands of Rabbi Yeshayaleh to receive an exemption from military service, (the exemption was given in a wondrous way, when a high-ranking officer arrived and sent him home without examination or investigation). Rabbi Aharon Friedman went through all of the events of he Holocaust with the amulet and was miraculously saved more than once. The amulet continued protecting his descendants in Israel as is already publicly known, at customs crossings and the like. The chain of wonders and salvations which were standard at Rabbi Yeshayaleh’s has not stopped in our days, and those few who possess amulets today attest that they have been openly privileged to much abundance and Supreme protection.
Signed confirmation from the family regarding the originality of the amulet included.
60×25 mm. Ink on parchment. Placed in an antique frame with a glass window, with a hook for hanging over the door of the home. Fine condition.
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