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18-carat gold Safed cup

of the Ruzhiner Rebbe

In addition to the hannukiah and sacred objects of compare it with the cup in my possession. He said
the Ruzhiner Rebbe, I will also show a rare special cup that he did not, but his father has one, and he asked
of his. I possess a pure gold cup, rare and amazingly his father to bring it when he came to visit.
beautiful, handmade by a Safed engraving craftsman,
the likes of which exist nowhere else in the world. When he arrived and showed me his cup, I saw that
the engraving and illustrations were very similar to
When I bought the cup, I struggled to investigate the cup in my possession. When I told him that I had
and clarify its history and heritage. After years, with a gold cup like it, he enriched my knowledge and told
God’s special help, when I was hospitalized at Shaare me that there was a family tradition that silver cups
Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, I meet Rabbi would be sent from all over Europe to Safed to be
Shmuel Weingarten, who made my hospital stay very engraved, and that the Ruzhiner Rebbe has sent gold
pleasant. We talked a great deal, and he remarked cups.
that he was the grandson of a Safed rabbi ZTSVK"L.
When I heard that, I immediately asked him whether When I bought the cup, I did not know about the
he had inherited a cup by a Safed engraver so I could magnitude of its value and heritage.

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