The head of the "HaShalom" Yeshiva in Jerusalem by Rabbi Shalom Sharabi ["The Rustle"].
A student of Rosh Yeshiva Porat Yosef Jerusalem Rabbi Yehuda Tzadaka Z’l
The father of the Kabbalistic Rabbi Yitzhak Batzri Sh’lita.
Great-grandson of Rabbi Yehuda Ptaia Z'l, great-grandson of Rabbi Yosef Chaim's sister, HaRav Ben Ish
Chai.
From a lineage of great Kabbalists and Tzaddikim, who were involved in Kabbalah and in particular in
exorcising possessions (dibouk or evil spirits that infect a person and control the person as they wish),
some say that he shared with Rabbi Yaakov Adas Sh’lita in exorcism rituals to expel dibouk from the sick
person.
My personal experience with Rabbi David Shalom
Some time, at the end of 2017, my late mother's spiritual condition deteriorated due to an evil spirit
that got hold of her and controlled her. Sadly, my mother was hospitalized in a mental hospital in the
center of the country for many years. When I was three years old my grandfather passed away and my
mother accompanied him to his burial. She visited the cemetery while she was in Nida and on that day
her life changed 180 degrees from a happy and spiritual woman who helped and brought joy to people
to a woman controlled by an ethereal spirit that was looking for a human body to settle in. This is
because my mother was in her impure days in the cemetery and the spirit took advantage of this and
infected her.
My aunt said that when they returned from the cemetery, my mother changed in speech and deed, and
everyone tried to find answers to the phenomenon to no avail. They went to Rabbi Shalom Sharabi
Kabbalist who lived in Rishon LeZion and asked for his advice, and he told them that on Friday he could
not help and that they should bring my mother the Sunday after, and he would remove the spirit that
had entered her. Everyone was happy and came to tell my father, but my father flatly refused and said
that he was having her admitted to a mental hospital and that this was a good place for her.
My father was a stubborn and opinionated man, and no one dared tried to change his decision. Since my
mother was in forced hospitalization for long periods, when I grew up I would visit the hospital on a
regular basis. When I became spiritually stronger, I help relief her because I could talk to the spirit out
and even cause it to leave for short periods of time. But the spirit always returned again and again, at
the end of the year 2017 I decided to take my mother to the Kabbalist David in Batseri Sh’lita in
Jerusalem.
I was sitting with my mother in the back seat of the car and two pious men were in the front of the car.
During the journey, we began to recite the Holy Zohar and the spirit that was inside my mother's body
raged and stormed to the point that my mother's head was on the floor of the car and her feet were on
the roof of the interior of the car. I sat her back down with all my strength, and she spat at me and was
violent, the spirit knew that we were going to a Tsaddik and refused to let us reach the Tsaddik safely.
However, we finally arrived at Tsaddik.
The Mekubal and Rabbi David Batzri, was sitting in his room. He looked like a pure and holy elder
Kabbalist, he asked me to lead my mother to him and said: "Put your hand on the pulse of your mother's
hand and listen to your mother's pulse, concentrate on listening to this pulse, it is important, feel the
pulse and do not let go of her hand", so I did as the tzaddik said. Rabbi David Batzri Sh’lita muttered a
prayer that lasted for several minutes, and from time to time he reminded me with his hand to continue
to monitor her pulse.
After long minutes that felt like an eternity, he finished his prayer and told me that I could leave my
mother's hand. Before the meeting ended, I asked the tzaddik if my mother would get well and whether
the spirit was still inside of her, or it had left. To which he answered: "Your mother took a lot of
medicines, today you got what you need from her,". His answer did not appease my mind, and I thought
about her all the way back.
My mother was tired and weak after the meeting, and I returned her to the hospital with a heavy heart.
Today, after years, I understand that he could not have helped my mother, but he did do a spiritual
action to transfer from her to me information and strength in everything that belongs for the treatment
of spirits and possessions that infect Jews, and indeed today I help Jews in the world to get rid of
harmful spiritual beings of all kinds.
May we always hear good news,
Ayalah Shlucha
