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The Story Behind the Stolen and Returned Sefer
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On Thursday, 28 Iyar, 5783, a kabbalistic manuscript that was owned by the Rebbe Rashab and held by the Russian government before disappearing and showing up on auction, was returned to its rightful place in the Rebbe’s library after months of international efforts. This is the story behind the manuscript, how it was acquired by the Rebbe Rashab, and how it was redeemed and brought back to its rightful home.
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which is called one of the Guri who are
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hold money is foreign
in Kabbalah
of the Arizona
most of his
spine antagos was published
some of them was not published yet
one of this forum he wrote is the safer
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which is a safer of explaining
alpikabole the whole topic of gilgulim
that the same
comes after generations to anad who was
born to another body and then
some of the things that are not
corrected in the first yoga could be
corrected in the next Gilgo
was not published to them
and there was some copies that scribes
copied
and
only about 10 years ago it was published
in Israel
the river shop
had a large collection
of Spawn
and kiss Fiat
in casidas
he wanted to get a copy of this River of
mashiva's novice
he spoke to book dealers if they could
get him a copy of it
one of the people that
he spoke to was a Bianca mayor
a Roth in Minsk happy I give Mayor
Gordon's King
he tried
very hard to get a copy of it
finally
he found a copy he bought it and sent it
to the dragon in the year after fresh
summer demo 1903
and he added a letter to it
saying
that after so many efforts
I reached a copy and I'm sending it to
you
and I hope that will help
to
correct
any
things that needed correction
in maybe a previous girl of myself
since this is safer is explaining the
topic of Calgary
it was interesting
that
in during this period that he tried
to get a copy of this humble
the river kashab
succeeded to get another copy
at of this safer
received
this copy of American vehicle
he first gave it to bind
in London which there was a binder that
most of this foreign
was bound by him and they are very
really easy to recognize
like this safer that we're speaking now
about that they came back to the library
you see the
color and the material of The Binding
end of the back of it
and you also could see a
air script
like all those foreign that was bound
illabus had the same inscript slanting
the top slanting the bottom and
straighten the back
so I gave it to painting
since he had two copies
exception now
since
he had a large collection and his son
who became later the river ayats the
sixth of
his own collection
so he gave the second copy
to his son
than ever yet
oh
pasted the extra Grace and the beginning
of the
button or the safer as we could see
that delivers
mentions the name of the famous
so we have now two copies of it
one is in
mascara still we only have a copy of it
and one was adorned yesterday to the
library
many book dealers over the years
would try
to pay up
the security
in the library and get for themselves a
copy of unique rare safer that they
would let us sell
and so is this second copy of the
machine
it well and the optional
several months ago
As We Know
that there is a court case going on
against the library or in Moscow
the court ordered the library to return
to the Chabad library in New York called
its firm and manuscripts of the
hermaphobavic collection
still didn't
as we know the court also ordered that
those that were succeeded to take out
this form of Moscow of this collection
should I turn on this phone to the
Central Library of Chabad in New York
when this saviad when an auctioned
several months ago
the god ordered them to return it to
happen so he was taken out from the
auction house
efforts was made
torch the one that holds this safer
and to purchase it from him
and return it
to the Central Library of Chabad
in New York
yesterday it came
but to notice
that
the court
order
foreign
was arranged
by the cunan rabikunin
through
the lawyer liverman that dealt with the
court that received this order
that were caused
to take it out from there
auction
in Israel that won the one that deals
with it and always purchased unique
forum and kiss fiad and brings it to
khabad library in New York is her half a
mission of understanding the transition
in Netanya
he purchased this
yesterday he came in
to the library
and handed me over
this saviad