Auction 050 Part 1 Satmar: Rebbes and Rabbis of Satmar-Sighet, Hungary and Transylvania
![Sar Shalom, kavanot for the Passover Seder, Chanukkah and Purim, from Siddur HaRashash [R. Shalom Sharabi], published by HaRa](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Ol50/41.jpg "Rashash Siddur Sar Shalom and Kavanot for Sefirat HaOmer – Copy of Reb")
Sar Shalom, kavanot for the Passover Seder, Chanukkah and Purim, from Siddur HaRashash [R. Shalom Sharabi], published by HaRav HaSadeh (R. Chaim Shaul Douek HaKohen, dean of the Rechovot HaNahar yeshiva for kabbalists) and R. Eliyahu Yaakov Lajimi. Jerusalem: Lipschitz Brothers, 1912. First edition.
Bound with: Kavanot of Sefirat HaOmer from Siddur HaRashash, published by the Shaar HaShamayim yeshiva, [Jerusalem: Sh. Zuckermann, 1914]. Copy lacking title page. First edition.
Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – on the title page is an ownership stamp of the Rebbe from his stay in Jerusalem (ca. 1946, before he immigrated to the United States): "Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Satmar and the regions – Jerusalem". Contains catalog inscriptions made while arranging the Rebbe's library in the United States (inscriptions on the title page of Sar Shalom and an additional inscription on the first leaf of Kavanat Sefirat HaOmer).
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979) was the youngest son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov (1836-1904), and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar of his generation, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. At a young age, he was appointed rabbi of Irshava. In 1925, he was appointed rabbi of Karoly (Carei; in place of R. Shaul Brach who went to serve as rabbi of Kashoi), and in 1934, of Satmar (Satu Mare). In all the places he served as rabbi, he also maintained a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of the faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was one of the founding pillars of the Torah world in the generation following the Holocaust. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States, where he established the Satmar Chassidic community. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem, and as leader of Orthodox Jewry in the United States and throughout the world. His writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.
Two books in one volume. Sar Shalom: [1], 1-48, 53 leaves (missing [4] leaves: leaves 49-52; leaves 45-48 are bound twice). Siddur Kavanot Sefirat HaOmer: [3], 2-12, 77 leaves (missing title page and leaf 13). 18.5 cm. Good general condition. Stains and wear. Tears lightly affecting text (affecting Lamnatzeach Menorah on the last page), repaired with tape. Inscriptions. Stamps. Fine new leather binding.
Tikunei HaZohar, with commentary Kise Melech, by the Kabbalist R. Shalom Buzaglo (author of Mikdash Melech). [Warsaw: J. Berger, 1885. On title page: "as printed in Brody".
Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. On the title page is an ownership stamp from the Rebbe's stay in Jerusalem (ca. 1946, before he immigrated to the United States): "Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Satmar and the region – in Jerusalem". With bibliographic inscriptions made while arranging the Rebbe's library in the United States.
On the front endpaper appears an inscription of several names to be mentioned before the Rebbe for blessing and salvation – Kvitels written by Chassidim in the book their Rebbe had the practice of reading every month of Elul.
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979) was the youngest son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov (1836-1904), and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar of his generation, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. At a young age, he was appointed rabbi of Irshava. In 1925, he was appointed rabbi of Karoly (Carei; in place of R. Shaul Brach who went to serve as rabbi of Kashoi), and in 1934, of Satmar (Satu Mare). In all the places he served as rabbi, he also maintained a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of the faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was one of the founding pillars of the Torah world in the generation following the Holocaust. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States, where he established the Satmar Chassidic community. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem, and as leader of Orthodox Jewry in the United States and throughout the world. His writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.
[1], 2-113, 119-125, 121-194, 6 leaves. 22.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and light wear. Light tears. Reinforcing tape on the reverse side of the title page and on the endpapers. Inscriptions and stamps. Fine new leather binding.
Seder Olam by the Tanna Rabbi Yosi son of Chalafta, with commentary and glosses from R. Yaakov Emden, the Vilna Gaon, and Meir Ayin by R. Yerucham Meir Leiner of Radzyń. Warsaw: Shimon Ber Landau, 1904.
Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. On the last leaf is the Rebbe's stamp from his tenure as Av Beit Din of Carei: "Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Carei and the region".
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979) was the youngest son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov (1836-1904), and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar of his generation, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. At a young age, he was appointed rabbi of Irshava. In 1925, he was appointed rabbi of Karoly (Carei; in place of R. Shaul Brach who went to serve as rabbi of Kashoi), and in 1934, of Satmar (Satu Mare). In all the places he served as rabbi, he also maintained a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of the faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was one of the founding pillars of the Torah world in the generation following the Holocaust. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States, where he established the Satmar Chassidic community. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem, and as leader of Orthodox Jewry in the United States and throughout the world. His writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.
[2], 3, IV-XVIII, 46 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and light wear. Stamps. New leather binding.
Tiferet HaGershuni, homilies and comments on the Torah by R. Gershon Ashkenazi. Munkacs: Shmuel Zanvil Kahana and his son-in-law Ozer HaKohen Fried, [1902].
Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – on the last leaf is a stamp of the Rebbe from his time in his hometown, Sighet (in his youth, from his father's passing in 1904 until 1906): "Yoel Teitelbaum son of the Tzaddik, Sighet"; and a later stamp from his tenure as Av Beit Din of Carei (1926-1934): "Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Carei and the region".
Inscriptions on the title page and last leaves: "Yoel Teitelbaum – Satmar"; "this book belongs to our master Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Orșeva…"; "this book belongs to our master R. Yoel Teitelbaum, Satmar".
Several Kvitel inscriptions on the first and last leaves.
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979) was the youngest son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov (1836-1904), and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar of his generation, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. At a young age, he was appointed rabbi of Irshava. In 1925, he was appointed rabbi of Karoly (Carei; in place of R. Shaul Brach who went to serve as rabbi of Kashoi), and in 1934, of Satmar (Satu Mare). In all the places he served as rabbi, he also maintained a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of the faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was one of the founding pillars of the Torah world in the generation following the Holocaust. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States, where he established the Satmar Chassidic community. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem, and as leader of Orthodox Jewry in the United States and throughout the world. His writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.
[9], 10-98 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Creases and tears. Margins of several leaves repaired with paper and tape. Fine new leather binding.
Shefa Tal, key to Kabbalah, by R. Shabtai Sheftel Horowitz of Prague. Frankfurt am Main: Shimon Terir Katz Shalit [in press of Johann Kellner], [1719]. Second edition. Kabbalistic illustrations and diagrams.
Distinguished copy.
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum often studied from this copy. On the final page is a handwritten testimony signed by Rebbe Elimelech Alter Panet of Deyzh-Boro Park: "The Rebbe of Satmar had this holy book… on loan from me a few times, and he learned from it many times, [given to him] by my friend… Mr. Menachem Mendel Greenberg – 13 Sivan 5724 [1964], Brooklyn, Elimelech Alter Panet son of R. Y[osef], Av Beit Din of Deyzh…"; Under the inscription of the Rebbe of Deyzh appears a confirmatory inscription signed by the attendant of the Satmar Rebbe, R. Menachem Mendel Greenberg: "I also sign to confirm the above – Menachem Mendel HaKohen Greenberg". Gloss on the margins of 19a – four words apparently handwritten by Rebbe Yoel of Satmar: "Ki Kol is equal in numerical value to Yesod". Glosses in various hands to the margins of some pages.
This copy formerly belonged to R. Mordechai Eliezer Ehrengruber, Av Beit Din of Vranov, author of Nachalat Yosef (disciple of the Shevet Sofer in the Pressburg yeshiva, son-in-law of R. Pinchas Steiner, Av Beit Din of Ilok) – his stamp on the title page: "Mordechai Eliezer Ehrengru[ber], Vranov and the region" - R. Mordechai Eliezer Ehrengruber, Av Beit Din of Vranov, author of Nachalat Yosef (ca. 1868-1942), one of the great rabbis of Hungary. Son-in-law of R. Pinchas Steiner, Av Beit Din of Ilok, author of Briti Shalom. In his youth he learned in the yeshiva of R. Moshe Pollak, Av Beit Din of Bonyhád, and in 1885 he traveled together with his childhood friend and fellow resident of Paks, R. Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, to learn in the Shevet Sofer yeshiva in Pressburg. He later returned to his parents' home and studied under the local authority R. Zusman Sofer. In 1902 he was appointed rabbi of the Beit Midrash in Steinamanger (Szombathely), and in 1908 he was appointed dayan, posek and rabbi of the Talmud Society in Pápa. In 1911 he began to serve as rabbi of Vranov, where he served until his death 32 years later. His only son, R. Hillel Meir Moshe (1892-1919), was a son-in-law of the Arugat HaBosem and a follower of R. Yissachar Dov Rokeach of Belz.
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979) was the youngest son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov (1836-1904), and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar of his generation, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. At a young age, he was appointed rabbi of Irshava. In 1925, he was appointed rabbi of Karoly (Carei; in place of R. Shaul Brach who went to serve as rabbi of Kashoi), and in 1934, of Satmar (Satu Mare). In all the places he served as rabbi, he also maintained a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of the faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was one of the founding pillars of the Torah world in the generation following the Holocaust. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States, where he established the Satmar Chassidic community. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem, and as leader of Orthodox Jewry in the United States and throughout the world. His writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.
Rebbe Elimelech Alter Panet of Deyzh-Boro Park (1929-2005), Av Beit Din of Zichron Yosef community in Brooklyn, New York, and president and founder of the Mareh Yechezkel Kollel in Eretz Israel. Son of R. Yosef Panet, Av Beit Din of Ileanda and Deyzh (Dej), and grandson of Rebbe Yechezkel Panet, author of Knesset Yechezkel. Son-in-law of R. Yechiel Greenzweig, Av Beit Din of Dolha (Dovhe).
The attendant R. Nisan Menachem Mendel HaKohen Greenberg (known as "R. Mendel Chicago") served for many years as Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum's "hoiz bochur" (living in the Rebbe's house and attending to his needs). In his youth he was a household member of R. Tzvi Hirsch Meisels, Av Beit Din of the She'erit Yisrael community in Chicago, and traveled at his recommendation and advice to study in the Satmar yeshiva in Williamsburg, where he became close with the Rebbe of Satmar. He served as his personal attendant for many years, and in 1959 even accompanied the Rebbe on his trip to Eretz Israel.
[2], 2-16, 18-53, 53-62, 64-66, 66-74, 76-80 leaves. Approx. 34 cm. Most leaves in good condition. Stains, creases and wear. First and last leaves in fair condition – tears and open tears, affecting text; large open tears on the title page, heavily affecting both sides of leaf, and frame; margins of some leaves repaired with paper and tape. Inscriptions and stamps. New leather binding.
Two books owned by R. Shraga Feivish Ashkenazi and his son R. Yosef Ashkenazi, attendants of Rebbe Yoel of Satmar:
1. Sefer HaManhig. Laws, customs, prayers and blessings, by R. Avraham ben Natan HaYarchi (the Raavan). Lviv: D. H. Schrenzel, 1858. Copy belonging to R. Shraga Feivish Ashkenazi in his youth, while living in Safed and before immigrating to Hungary. His stamps on the title page and last leaf: "Shraga Feivish Ashkenazi in Safed"; "Shraga Feivish Ashkenazi in Safed – Fawisch Aschknasi, Saffed" (in Hebrew and Latin characters). Additional stamps inscribed: "My son Ephraim Yosef Dov, born… 12 Kislev, 1911". Short handwritten glosses on margins of some leaves.
[92] leaves. Approx. 21 cm. Good condition. Light stains. Light worming. Reinforced with tape on some margins. Stamps. New leather binding.
2. Sefer HaGan and Derech Moshe, laws, guidance and ethical teachings by R. Yitzchak son of Eliezer and R. Moshe Kahana of Gewitsch (Jevíčko). Piotrków: M. Knoster of Warsaw, [1910]. Copy of R. Efraim Yosef Dov Ashkenazi. His stamps on the title page from when he lived in Carei alongside his teacher, Rebbe Yoel, who served as rabbi of the city: "Ephraim Yosef Dov Ashkenazi, Carei"; his ownership stamp from a later period, after he moved with his Rebbe to Satmar: "Ephraim Yosef Ashkenazi, Satmar".
[1], 1-36 leaves. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Uneven trimming of sheets; some sheets are untrimmed. New binding.
The famous Chassid R. Shraga Feivish Ashkenazi (born ca. 1885, perished in the Holocaust 1944), faithful attendant of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (both the Rebbe and his attendant were descendants of R. Moshe David Ashkenazi of Töltéstava, father-in-law of the Yitav Lev). Son-in-law of R. Yaakov Yitzchak Unger of Safed (descendant of Rebbe Mordechai David Unger of Dąbrowa). Travelled as an emissary from Eretz Israel at the end of the World War I period and reached Hungary. At the advice of the rabbi of Polaniec, R. Shraga Feivish became intimate with his relative, the Rebbe of Satmar, and became his close assistant and attendant for about 27 years (during the latter's tenures as rabbi of Irshava, Carei and Satmar, until the Holocaust).
His son, R. Efraim Yosef Dov Ashkenazi (1911-2002), attendant and confidant of the Rebbe of Satmar for close to sixty years, and his close assistant on all communal matters. R. Yosef was an exceptionally intelligent Torah scholar, great in Chassidut and fear of God. In the Holocaust, R. Yosef accompanied the Rebbe on his journey in the famous Kastner rescue train, later immigrating with him to Eretz Israel and shortly thereafter moving with him to the United States. He was the owner of the Yerushalayim publishing house in Williamsburg. He edited his Rebbe's books in Halachah and Aggadah and published them (see his introduction to Responsa Divrei Yoel). Author of She'erit Yosef on the Torah.
Responsa Shemen Rokeach, Part I, on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch, by R. Elazar Lev. [Seini, Satmar region: Jacov Wieder, 1909.]
Copy of the first Chassidic Beit Midrash established by the young Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum in Satmar (ca. 1906). Many stamps, including later stamps, after his appointment as rabbi of Satmar in 1934.
Shortly before Rosh Hashanah 1905, about a year and a half after his marriage, Rebbe Yoel left his hometown Sighet for the nearby Satmar. For the High Holiday prayers, a small Chassidic Minyan gathered in his new house. Immediately after coming to the city, Rebbe Yoel opened a small Beit Midrash, and a small group of young followers of his father, the Kedushat Yom Tov (as well as some Sanz-Shinova Chassidim in the city), charmed by his outstanding righteousness and learning, began to consolidate around him. The primary supporter of Rebbe Yoel and his Beit Midrash was the famous Chassidic philanthropist R. Chaim Freund, owner of a large textile factory. In 1911, Rebbe Yoel went to serve as Rabbi in Irshava, and in 1926 he went to serve as Rabbi in Carei. For over twenty years, his followers in Satmar maintained his Beit Midrash in the city, until they managed to recall him in 1934 to serve as Rabbi of Satmar.
Handwritten glosses on the margins of some pages.
On the endpaper and margins of some other pages, signatures of some of Rebbe Yoel of Satmar's students: R. Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Schwartz, one of the Satmar Rebbe's earlier disciples, author of HaMeazreni Chayil and director of the Satmar Yitav Lev institutions in Jerusalem; Avraham Simchah Halpert of Khust; Yaakov Glickman; Anshel Stern; Yaakov Stern; Meir Chaim; Aharon Friedman; Aharon Waldman (also in Latin characters: Valdman Aron); and others.
[2], 104, [1] leaves. Missing leaf [3] at the beginning of the book and five final leaves (pre-subscribers). Approx. 30 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, creases and wear. Tears and worming, lightly affecting text. Bottom third of the title page is torn and missing, affecting the frame and text (also on the reverse side). Reinforced with paper. Inscriptions and stamps. New leather binding.
Four volumes and printer’s sheet from library of Rebbe Chaim Halberstam, Rosh Av Beit Din, dayan and posek in Satmar, with his stamps, signatures and a lengthy gloss in his handwriting:
1-2. Maayenei HaChochmah, on Tractate Bava Metzia, Part I – Mahadura Kama, and Part II – Mahadura Batra, by R. Aryeh Leib Zünz. Warsaw: Shalom Shachna Munk, 1895. Two parts in two volumes. Ownership signatures on title pages of both parts: “Chaim Halberstam”; “Chaim Halberstam of Ratzfert, now in…” (partially cut off); stamp on the title page to Part I: “Chaim Halberstam, residing here in Satmar”.
Part I: [2], 135 leaves. Part II: [2], 2-71 leaves. Missing final 8 leaves. At the beginning of Part II appears the title page to Part I (the title page was originally bound with this part, since the Rebbe’s signature appears at the top of both title pages). 29.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, tears and damage. Inscriptions and stamps. New bindings.
3. Minchat Kohen, on the laws of Bein HaShemashot, by R. Avraham Pimentel. Lemberg (Lviv): Uri Ze’ev Salat, 1892. His stamps on title page and other leaves, from his period of residence in Ratzfert in his youth: “Chaim Halberstam Ratzfert”; and his stamp on the title page from his period of residence in Satmar: “Chaim Halberstam, residing here in Satmar”.
On the endpapers, signatures of two of his sons: “Mordechai Dov Halberstam” [R. Mottele Halberstam, son-in-law of R. Avraham Steiner of Kerestir, served as Rabbi in Tiszalök and later opened his own Beit Midrash in Miskolc; perished in the Holocaust]; “Yaakov Yitzchak Halberstam” [R. Chaim’s third and youngest son, in 1943 married daughter of R. David Yaakov Brisk, Av Beit Din of Tiszadada; perished in the Holocaust].
On the front endpaper is a Kvittel inscription for a complete recovery written by one of his followers. On title page and additional leaves, stamps of “R. Moshe HaKohen Gross – Geneva” [R. Moshe Gross, an important Belz Chassid, 1916-1980]. Inscription on title page: “I bought this book from R. Avraham Shmuel Schreiber, here in Kamenets”.
[1], 2-88 leaves. 25.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, tears and damage. Repaired with paper. New leather binding.
4. Chanukat HaTorah, collection of novellae by R. Heshel of Cracow. Piotrków: Shlomo Belchatowski, [ca. 1900-1910 – stereotype of first edition, 1900]. Ownership inscription on title page, handwritten and signed by Rebbe Chaim Halberstam during his period of residence in Ratzfert in his youth. Many stamps on title page and other leaves of the Beit Midrash of Rebbe Shalom Eliezer Halberstam in Ratzfert.
[1], 5-16 pages; 91, 90-114 pages. 21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear and tears. Stamps. New leather binding.
5. Leaf from Tractate Gittin, Piskei HaRosh [small format, apparently from one of Lemberg editions ca. 1860-1870, p. 99a]. On the margins of the leaf is a lengthy handwritten gloss signed “Chaim Halberstam”.
[1] leaf. 22 cm. Good condition.
Rebbe Chaim Halberstam (1885-1942), firstborn of Rebbe Shalom Eliezer of Ratzfert (1862-1944). Named for his illustrious paternal grandfather, the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. At a young age he married the daughter of Rebbe Avraham Shalom Pinchas HaLevi Rottenberg of Wolbrom. He was famed for his great holiness and intense prayer, and he was known as a great Torah scholar and posek. He was very beloved by his maternal grandfather, Rebbe Mordechai Dov Twersky of Hornostaipil, who appreciated his great learning and corresponded with him on halachic matters (printed in Emek HaChochmah and Shoshanat HaAmakim). In Shoshanat HaAmakim, his grandfather calls him “my dear grandson, beloved to my heart, nice and pleasant vine, branch full of wisdom, with erudition and right reasoning”, and the like. At the age of 57 he fell sick and did not recover. His funeral took place in Satmar, and he was eulogized by the leader of the local community, Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, and others. His son, R. Alter Meir David took his place as dayan. All his descendants perished in the Holocaust. Opening: $250
Teshuot Chaim, on Rashi's commentary to the Torah, by R. Chaim Yeshayah Halbersberg, author of Misgeret HaShulchan. Lublin: Nechemyah Herschenhorn and Shlomo Shimon Streisberger, 1923.
Copy of R. Moshe Aryeh (Rama) Freund, from his tenure as dayan and posek in Satmar (after the Holocaust). His stamps (somewhat faded) at the beginning of the book: "Moshe Aryeh Freund, dayan and posek of Satmar". Stamp of R. Yitzchak Hershkovitz.
R. Moshe Aryeh Freund (1904-1996), son of R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Bonyhád and grandson of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Freund of Năsăud. Served as dayan and posek in Satmar and Av Beit Din of Năsăud. After the Holocaust, he served for a short time as Av Beit Din of Satmar. He later immigrated to Jerusalem and served as dean of the Satmar Yitav Lev yeshiva and as a posek in the city. After the passing of his teacher, Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar in 1979, he took up his position as Rosh Av Beit Din of the Edah HaCharedit, and after the passing of the Minchat Yitzchak in 1989, he was appointed to his position as Gaon Av Beit Din of the Edah HaCharedit.
[1], 2-52 leaves. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and mold stains. Minor defects. Stamps. New leather binding.
Torat Chatat by R. Moshe Isserles (the Rama), with Minchat Yaakov and Torat HaShelamim by R. Yaakov Reischer, Vikuach Mayim Chaim by R. Chaim son of Betzalel of Friedberg (brother of the Maharal of Prague), Damesek Eliezer by R. Eliezer son of Yehoshua of Szczebrzeszyn (Shebreshin), and additional commentaries. Piotrków: Yitzchak Shlomowitch, 1903. Divisional title pages for Torat HaShelamim, Vikuach Mayim Chaim and Damesek Eliezer.
Copy of R. Moshe Aryeh (Rama) Freund, from his tenure as dayan and posek in Satmar (after the Holocaust). His stamps appear on the title page and margins of other leaves: "Moshe Aryeh Freund, dayan and posek of Satmar".
This copy was previously in possession of his father, R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Radna and Huedin. On the margins of the title page, an ownership inscription (partially cut off) handwritten by his son, R. Moshe Aryeh Freund: "…the Tzaddik R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Randa and the region, Aryeh".
Handwritten glosses on the margins of several pages.
R. Moshe Aryeh Freund (1904-1996), son of R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Bonyhád and grandson of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Freund of Năsăud. Served as dayan and posek in Satmar and Av Beit Din of Năsăud. After the Holocaust, he served for a short time as Av Beit Din of Satmar. He later immigrated to Jerusalem and served as dean of the Satmar Yitav Lev yeshiva and as a posek in the city. After the passing of his teacher, Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar in 1979, he took up his position as Rosh Av Beit Din of the Edah HaCharedit, and after the passing of the Minchat Yitzchak in 1989, he was appointed to his position as Gaon Av Beit Din of the Edah HaCharedit.
His father, R. Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Radna and Huedin (ca. 1873-1940), son of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Freund of Năsăud, son of R. Moshe Aryeh Freund, leader of Sighet community. In his youth he lived in Sighet and attended the Yitav Lev of Sighet. In 1906 he was appointed Av Beit Din of Radna, and after the passing of his father-in-law R. Ze'ev Goldberger in 1917, he accepted a position as Rabbi in Huedin, where he served for about twenty years. He traveled often to Sanz Tzaddikim, and particularly kept the company of his teacher, the Divrei Yechezkel of Shinova. After his passing, Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar eulogized him as "unique in his generation in the trait of humility" (Mara DeUvda, III, p. 290). His novellae are printed in Ateret Yehoshua on the Torah and Talmud.
[2], 67; [1], 2-21; 11; 11; 9, [1]; [2], 3-26 leaves. Approx. 30 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Creases and tears. Open tears on the margins of the title page and on first two pages, affecting text, restored with paper (verso of title page pasted to a blank leaf). Stamps. New leather binding.
Tehillim with commentary Imrot Tehorot, by R. Eliezer HaLevi Horowitz, Av Beit Din of Tarnogród. Sighet: Moshe Blumenfeld and his son-in-law Yechiel Michel David, [1900]. Two title pages (second title page is expanded).
The first Chassidic commentary on Tehillim to be printed, by R. Eliezer HaLevi Horowitz, Av Beit Din of Tarnogród (died 1806). Disciple of R. Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov and R. Elimelech of Lizhensk, and a peer and disciple to the Chozeh of Lublin and the Maggid of Kozhnitz.
Includes approbations from first edition, including that of R. Aryeh Leibush Lipschitz, author of Aryeh DeVei Ila’i, Av Beit Din of Vishnitsa (son-in-law of Yismach Moshe of Ujhel), who tells in his approbation that he met the author in his youth: “…I merited to enjoy his light and I knew him then in my youth… and he was full of delight and truthful sharpness… whoever saw him recognized the great light of his holiness and temperance, as I knew for a fact while I lived in Shinova…”.
Copy of R. David Moskowitz, Rabbi of Bonyhád – his stamps on the title page and endpapers: “David Moskowitz – Kerestir” - R. David Moskowitz of Bonyhád (1909-1985) was born in Kerestir (Bodrogkeresztúr). Son-in-law (by his first marriage) of the Vayaged Yaakov of Pápa. After the Holocaust, he served as rabbi of Bonyhád and Miskolc. In the 1950s, he immigrated to Jerusalem, serving as posek in the Edah HaCharedit. Reputed as a holy, pious and ascetic man, wondrous stories of his holiness and fiery fear of God abound. He edited the books of his teachers, the Levush Mordechai of Mád and the Keren LeDavid of Satmar. A leading Belzer chassid, he was also close to the Skver, Dushinsky and Satmar Chassidic courts (in the period between the passing of Rebbe Aharon of Belz and the appointment of the current Rebbe, Belz chassidim would gather to pray during the High Holidays in the Belz yeshiva in Jerusalem, and would honor the rabbi of Bonyhád with conducting the Mussaf prayers – prayer usually led by the Rebbe).
[9], 8-431, [1] leaves. Without additional leaf of approbations and [11] leaves with names of pre-subscribers, which were added only to some prints. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Creases and wear. Light damage. New leather binding.
Tehillim with commentary Olelot Yehudah by R. Yehudah Greenwald, Av Beit Din of Satmar, author of Zichron Yehudah, with "Iggeret Musar of the Ramban" and "Tzetel Katan of R. Elimelech". Satmar: Meir Leib Hirsch, 1927. First edition.
The present copy was owned by the author's nephew, R. Avraham Chanoch Friedman, dayan and posek of Satmar, who gave it as a wedding gift to R. Avraham son of the philanthropist R. Moshe Shiman [R. Moshe Shiman is mentioned in the list of donors at the end of the book]. At the top of the title page is a handwritten dedication: "wedding gift to… Avraham son of the philanthropist R. Moshe Shiman from her for his wedding day, and may they be a good match and merit to build a faithful Jewish home… from his friend, Avraham Chanoch Friedman, local dayan and posek"; under the dedication appears his stamp: "Avraham Chanoch Friedman, dayan and posek of the orthodox community, Satmar".
The approbation of this R. Avraham Chanoch Friedman is printed at the beginning of the book, attesting that he gave R. Chaim Tzvi Zimmend, "a faithful and very dear student of R. Yehudah Greenwald", the author's manuscript on Tehillim: "I hereby give him this column as proof that I happily gave him copies of the commentary Olelot Yehudah on Tehillim which the holy author left behind".
In the list of signatories in the city of Carei at the end of the book appear the names of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar and his son-in-law R. Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Mayer-Teitelbaum.
Rabbi Avraham Chanoch Friedman (1866-1944; perished in the Holocaust), son of the Chatam Sofer's daughter, close disciple and confidant of his uncle Rabbi Yehudah Greenwald, who adopted him as a son and married him to his niece. He edited and published the works of his teacher Rabbi Greenwald and of his grandfather the Chatam Sofer. He served for decades as a dayan and posek in Satmar (from 1905), directed a large yeshiva in it, and served as Rabbi of the Machazikei Torah Ashkenazi synagogue in the city. He was a supporter of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum's appointment as Rebbe of Satmar.
[4], 256, [10] leaves. 22.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Open tear on the margins of leaf 89, affecting the margins of the text. Stamps. Gilt edges. Fine new leather binding.
Variant – in the present copy, [10] leaves are printed at the end of the book in which many more names are added to the list of "donors" and "signatories"; in most copies only [4] leaves are printed.