“Abundance is certainly drawn through Matatron from the upper pool for all present … via the functional mind, through which Hashem’s blessing is drawn” (from the manuscript)
Two pages of deep Kabbalistic concepts – with textual differences from the printed version – entirely handwritten by the G-dly Kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, the leading Yemenite poet. According to the famous Yemenite tradition, he would merit to travel on a nightly basis via kefitzat haderech from Yemen to the Land of Israel. This manuscript is from a first edition of his book Chemdat Yamim that was never printed. Yemen, c. 1640.
This manuscript deals with Parashat VaYechi, with the most important blessings in the Torah. We note that despite the manuscript being perfectly typographically arranged and ready for print, including the Tosafot Ta’am elucidation on the sides of the pages, there are still many differences from what finally appears in the sefer . This is apparently a rare leaf from the mahadura kamma of his book Chemdat Yamim . The Rasha”sh completed writing it in 1646 and it had never been printed; it was only known of from tradition! (The version that was printed in the end is from the mahadura batra of the manuscript that the Rasha”sh wrote in later years; refer to Kovetz Ma’amarim on the occasion of 350 years since the birth of the Rasha”sh, published by Va’ad HaKlali L’Kehillat HaTeimanim, Jerusalem, 1972, p. 10).
Manuscripts by gedolei Yisrael from all communities and circles across the Diaspora are used by the Jewish people as tried-and-true amulets for protection and success. This applies to all their manuscripts, even if they do not explicitly deal with blessings or Kabbalistic matters. How much more so does this Kabbalistic manuscript written by the G-dly Kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Shabazi constitute a true amulet due to its unique content dealing with the Torah’s most important blessings and filled with verses of blessings on the most important topics, integrated with sacred Kabbalistic Names of the upper sephirot and the angels:
Healing:
“Hashem lowers dew of revival on the patient, ” “Healer of the sick among the Jewish people, ” “One who visits the sick is saved from the law of Gehinnom, “Your dew is the dew of light” – it resembles water with light upon it that awakens the positive fire of the heart and nature in the liver” (P. 1 of the manuscript)
Praiseworthy is he who considers the needy; on the day of evil Hashem will rescue him.” (P. 2, vowelized in the original)
Marriage:
“What G-d gave me in this, some say that he showed him the writing of Asnath, and some say, he showed him a scroll that Jacob wrote with Dinah because he moved her coffin in the river and Potiphar raised it and Joseph took it.” (P. 1).
Fortune:
“And they said, when Ya’akov saw Yehoshua’s mazal , his eyes teared up when he saw that he was destined to fight the war for the Jewish people and kill thirty-one kings, ” Tosafot Ta’a’m -“Yehoshua’s mazal – that is to say, he saw that his had the trait of royalty – he interpreted this from observing the yud at the beginning of his name, because it is the tenth that he receives from the fear of Yitzchak.” (P. 2).
Wealth:
The source of sustenance being from lovingkindness – one who fills his life with chessed “through a tzaddik yessod olam , all who are present are blessed, “Abundance is certainly drawn through Matatron from the upper pool for all present, ” “via the functional mind, through which Hashem’s blessing is drawn as it influences majesty and returns and influences what is beneath it.” (P. 2)
Royalty:
“I, too, will make him a firstborn, above all the kings on Earth” (P. 2, vowelized in the original)
This is therefore a powerful amulet for wealth, a spouse, accessing mazal , and much, much more, from the blessings and the power of the Names written in this manuscript by one of the two giants of the Yemenite diaspora from the day they were exiled from the Holy Land. (Astonishingly, both were referred to by the same abbreviation: ‘Rasha”sh’).
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the G-dly Kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Shabazi .
[2] pages, approximately 21×15.5 cm. Thick, high-quality paper.
Fine condition. Stains. Single worming perforations and a tear with lack in the margins of the leaf (without lack in the text), professionally completed by paper. Magnificent new binding, as befits this sacred document.
