Lot 421
Archive of the Ga’on the Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon Englander
Archive of the Ga’on the Kabbalist Rabbi Shimon Englander. Letters, Chidushei Torah, manuscripts and more.
Letters concerning various matters as well as matters of Kabbalah by Rabbi Chaim Dov Shtorch Av Beit Din Neimarkatt, Rabbi Yehoshua Boimal author of Emek Halacha, Rabbi Yisrael Zissel Platin-Dvoretz, Rabbi Shalom Goldring, Rabbi Reuven Hack, Rabbi Efrayim Godliv, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Shapira and others. Various letters in the handwriting of Rabbi Shimon and his family members. Handwritten pages from his book Pardes Shimon [not printed?].
Rabbi Shimon Englander (1874-1950) was a Ga’on, Hassid and Kabbalist. Most of his lifetime he was a Zadik Nistar [hidden righteous person], he resided in Neimarkatt (located at the border of Galicia and Hungary). In approximately the year 1933 he immigrated to Haifa, and founded the Ateret Zkenim Institute for support of the elderly residents of the city. In the year 1950 he printed the Kabbalistic-Hassidic book Brit Kehunat Olam with his interpretation Sha’ar Shimon in which his vast knowledge of the true wisdom is apparent. During the process of the printing of the book the author died.
Tens of leaves (over 40), various sizes and conditions.
