[Avodah] Raziel Hamalach [was: Is a Mezuza a Segula]

[Michael Kopinsky]

On 4/13/08, T613K at aol.com <T613K at aol.com> wrote:
>
>   This is the second time that I've seen the sefer Raziel Hamalach
> mentioned in A/A.  The other time was recently on Areivim re a discussion
> about the mass printing of Tanya's, where someone mentioned that Raziel
> Hamalach is also mass printed.  I would have said that I never heard of it
> or saw it, but then in my Pesach cleaning I came across a tiny little sefer,
> Raziel Hamalach, printed in such small letters that my middle-aged eyes
> can't read it. It must have gotten into my kitchen drawer /somehow/ though I
> have no memory of it.  What I am asking now may be an alef-bais question to
> the erudite denizens of A/A but -- what the heck IS this sefer?  What's it
> about, who wrote it, who is Raziel Hamalach?
>


Further to that:
I heard a legend that when Raziel hamalach was printed, the printer dropped
all the pages, losing the correct order, and then bound them in random
order, and that part of the challenge in learning the sefer is figuring out
the correct page order.  Is there any truth to this?

Michael
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