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Shofar of Rebbe Dov Ber, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch. Small, narrow shofar. The shofar's wide opening is carved in a serrated pattern. Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of the Rebbe Rayatz: "I hereby gift… the small Shofar of the Mitteler Rebbe. It developed a hole and became Posul in the time of the Rashab while we were still in Lubavitch. My grandfather was distraught that it became Posul. He gave it to me as a gift in 1918 in Rostov". The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
The custom of Chabad rebbes was to blow the shofar themselves for the community to thereby fulfill their obligation. The Mitteler Rebbe reputedly could not blow a shofar [HaMelech BiMesibo, I, p. 52; see footnote there citing a source that it was the Alter Rebbe who could not blow a shofar (see also: Otzar Minhagei Chabad, Elul-Tishrei, p. 107, paragraphs 225-226 and footnote).
Length of shofar: Approx. 17.5 cm. Good condition. Damage.
Included is a wooden box carved and finely decorated, which may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the shofar, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Shofar of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch.
Large, narrow, light-colored and curved shofar. The shofar's wide opening is carved with a wave pattern.
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of the Rebbe Rayatz: "I hereby gift… one of my great-great grandfather's Shofar. The Tzemach Tzedek used this Shofar. I received it as a gift from my grandmother Shterna Sarah the week of my wedding [11 Sivan 1921]". The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
The custom of Chabad rebbes was to blow the shofar themselves for the community to thereby fulfill their obligation. The Lubavitcher Rebbe owned another light-colored shofar attributed to the Tzemach Tzedek, which he used to blow for many years until it cracked, rendering it invalid for use. [Even after its invalidation, the Tzemach Tzedek's shofar remained in place on the Rebbe's table during the blowing of the shofar. Two other shofars placed on his table were a black one from his father R. Levi Yitzchak, attributed to the Rebbe Maharash, and a light one from his father-in-law the Rebbe Rayatz.]
In his old age, the son of the Alter Rebbe, R. Chaim Avraham, used to come to the shofar blowing by the Tzemach Tzedek. The Rebbe Maharash once asked him: Why do you trouble yourself to come here? Can't you arrange a minyan to blow the shofar by you? R. Chaim Avraham answered: The verse states, "Happy is the nation that knows the shofar blast" – not "that blows the shofar". In my minyan, as in all minyans, they only blow the shofar. Here, the person blowing the shofar knows the shofar blast (LeShema Ozen, p. 39; HaTamim VIII, pp. 9-10 [leaf 381]).
Length of the shofar: Approx. 27.5 cm. Good condition. Light damage.
Included is a wooden box that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the shofar, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Shofar of Rebbe Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson, the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch.
Large, narrow, curved shofar. The shofar's wide opening is carved with a wave pattern, and its exterior with a serrated pattern.
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by his granddaughter Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of the Rebbe Rayatz: "I hereby gift… a Shofar of my grandfather the Rashab. He bought it while he was in Germany." The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
The custom of Chabad rebbes was to blow the shofar themselves for the community to thereby fulfill their obligation. The Rebbe Rayatz recounts how three different shofars were set on the table of his father, the Rebbe Rashab, before and after the blowing of the shofar. "Every Rosh Hashanah, my father the Rebbe would line up the shofars before the blowing. On the reading table were set three shofars. One was very long; this was the shofar of the Maharal of Prague…" [Sefer HaSichot, Hebrew translation, p. 14].
The Lubavitcher Rebbe was known to have possessed three different shofars: one light-colored one from his grandfather the Tzemach Tzedek, one black one from his father R. Levi Yitzchak attributed to the Rebbe Maharash, and one from his father-in-law the Rebbe Rayatz.
In an article in HaTamim (IV, p. 87), the author describes the tremulous emotion at the Rebbe Rashab's shofar blowing: "…His holy face and head were wrapped in his Tallit, and a small, still, quiet voice could be heard in a stanza of the well-known Chabad melody in intense devotion, when the call of 'Lamnatzeach' breaks out from the innermost part of his holy heart in powerful excitement and terrible crying, in such a way as to melt even a heart of stone, and the entire congregation broke out in tears of repentance and internal regret…”.
Length of shofar: Approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Cracks and damage.
Included is a small leather-lined suitcase that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the suitcase was given along with the shofar, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Shofar of Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch.
Large, narrow, dark-colored shofar. The shofar's wide opening is carved with a serrated pattern.
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of the Rebbe Rayatz: "I hereby gift… the black Shofar my father used while in America in 1929-1930. Rabbi Dovid Shifrin gave it to him upon his arrival to New York in Elul. He gave it to me as a gift upon his return to Europe in 1930. It arrived in one of the shipments at the end of World War II". The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
The custom of Chabad rebbes was to blow the shofar themselves for the community to thereby fulfill their obligation. The Rebbe Rayatz recounts how three different shofars were set on the table of his father, the Rebbe Rashab, before and after the blowing of the shofar. "Every Rosh Hashanah, my father the Rebbe would line up the shofars before the blowing. On the reading table were set three shofars. One was very long; this was the shofar of the Maharal of Prague…" [Sefer HaSichot, Hebrew translation, p. 14].
The Lubavitcher Rebbe was known to have possessed three different shofars: one light-colored one from his grandfather the Tzemach Tzedek, one black one from his father R. Levi Yitzchak attributed to the Rebbe Maharash, and one from his father-in-law the Rebbe Rayatz.
The visit of the Rebbe Rayatz to the United States
Some two years after his release from the Soviet prison and settling in Riga, the Rebbe Rayatz traveled to the United States. The purpose of the visit, which lasted for close to a year (Elul 1929-Tamuz 1930), was to muster public support for Russian Jews and to encourage and strengthen American Jewry. Wherever he went, the Rayatz campaigned to strengthen and fortify Torah observance, and promote Shabbat observance, laying tefillin and establishing Torah and Chassidut classes. He founded Agudas Chassidei Chabad and women's societies to promote family purity. On Shabbat, he would hold gatherings and deliver Chassidic teachings, and on weekdays, he would convene various meetings and receive people in private audiences. Towards the end of the trip, the Rayatz met with Herbert Hoover, president of the United States, in the White House, and thanked the president for the freedom of religion given to American Jewry and for the help his government provides to Jews throughout the world. The Rayatz ended his visit on Thursday, 21 Tammuz, 1930. He set sail from the port of New York on SS Bremen, and after spending several weeks in the Marienbad health spa, he returned in the middle of Elul 1930 to his home in Riga.
The Chassid R. David Shifrin (d. 1943) was one of the first Chassidim of the Rebbe in the United States, a founder of Agudas Chassidei Chabad in the United States in 1924, and secretary of the Agudah. He also kept the company of the Rebbe Maharash.
Length of shofar: 33 cm. Good condition. Cracks and damage.
Included is a wooden box that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the shofar, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Challah cover of Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch.
Velvet and fabric, embroidered with gilt and colored strings. In the center of the textile: a bottle of wine and a goblet, a challah and a pair of candlesticks with lit Shabbat candles; surrounded by verses recited in the Kiddush. The top of the textile is inscribed Shabbat Shalom, and vine branches extend from both sides with greenish beads sewn upon them, patterned as a grape cluster.
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of the Rebbe Rayatz: "I hereby gift… the Challah Dekel that my father used for many years in Russia, Latvia and Poland. It arrived in one of the shipments after World War II. My father gave it to me as a gift". The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
Approx. 65x53 cm. Good condition. Damage and light wear.
Included is a wooden box that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the Challah cover, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Lot 197 Three Silver Kiddush Cups Bought by the Rebbe Rashab for his Three Granddaughters for Pesach
Three small silver Kiddush cups bought by Rebbe Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson, the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch, as a gift for his granddaughters – the young daughters of the Rebbe Rayatz, sisters Chana, Chaya Mushka and Sheina Schneerson – for the four cups of the Pesach Seder night.
Three small Kiddush cups, decorated with illustrations and vegetal motifs. Silver (84), marked: Kiev – 1899-1904; two of them (with identical decorations) are marked with the maker's mark Г.Р [G.R], and the third is marked with the maker's mark ИЕЗ [IEZ; Israel Eseevich Zakhoder].
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), the eldest sister: "I hereby gift… the three small Kiddush cups that my grandfather [the Rashab] bought me and my sisters. We drank wine by the Seder at my grandfather's as young girls". The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
Three cups. 3.5x4.5 cm. Good condition.
Included is a wooden box that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the cups, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Three handkerchiefs of Rebbe Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson – the Rebbe Rashab of Lubavitch.
Various patterns and colors.
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of the Rebbe Rayatz: "I hereby gift… three handkerchiefs from my grandfather the Rashab". The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
Approx. 33x32 to 35.5x36 cm. Good condition. Stains.
Included is a metal box that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the handkerchiefs, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Handkerchief of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Transparent white fabric. The initials MS are embroidered in the right corner of the handkerchief, inside a heart-like decoration (the initials of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Schneerson).
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by his nephew R. Shalom Dov Ber (Barry) Gurary, only grandson of the Rebbe Rayatz (son of his daughter Rebbetzin Chana and her husband R. Shemaryahu Gurary): "I hereby gift… a handkerchief of my uncle [the Lubavitcher Rebbe] with his initials on it. Once during a family meal at my grandfather's apartment [the Rebbe Rayatz] I had a very bad cold and was sneezing a lot. My uncle gave me his handkerchief. After washing it I wanted to return it and my uncle told me to keep it. It has his initials MS on it". The letter is dated March 25, 1990.
Approx. 34x32 cm. Good condition.
Included is a wooden box that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the handkerchief, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Table runner of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Long, narrow piece of fabric to be placed on top of a larger tablecloth for decoration. Fine lacework; oval medallions appear on both sides of the fabric with the initials MSM embroidered onto each – the initials of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Menachem Mendel Schneerson).
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by his sister-in-law Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of the Rebbe Rayatz: "I hereby gift… the table runner with the monogram MMS. My sister [Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson] bought it as a gift for my brother-in-law [the Lubavitcher Rebbe] in the early 40's. When they moved to President Street [the Rebbe and Rebbetzin moved from New York Avenue to President Street in 1955] Moussia [Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka] said that they hadn't used it in a few years. She gave it to me and I put it away." The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
Approx. 40x97 cm. Good condition.
Included is a fine wooden box with a cover decorated in hand-illustrated flowers and birds that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the table runner, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Clock of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In 1949 the Rebbe gifted it to his nephew R. Shalom Ber (Barry) Gurary.
An eight-day clock, a mechanical clock with a winding mechanism lasting eight days (product of Switzerland, ca. 1940s). The clock is set in a brown, leather case; the outer covering of the case is inscribed with a gilt decoration of the letters M. S. – the initials of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Menachem Schneerson).
Letter of authenticity enclosed (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by his nephew R. Shalom Ber (Barry) Gurary, only grandson of the Rebbe Rayatz (son of his daughter Rebbetzin Chana and her husband R. Shemaryahu Gurary): "I hereby gift… the eight day alarm clock which my uncle [the Lubavitcher Rebbe] gave me as a gift in 1949. I was waking late and my uncle gave me his clock. It has his initials MS on it". The letter is dated March 18, 1990.
Approx. 10.5x10 cm. The winding mechanism was not examined for functionality. Tears and damage. The inner part (the clock) is detached from the case.
Included is a wooden box that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the clock, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
Two colorful silk scarves, with different colors and patterns, of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Enclosed is a letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by Rebbetzin Chana Gurary (1899-1991), eldest daughter of the Rebbe Rayatz: "I hereby gift… two silk scarves worn by my sister [Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka] and I [Rebbetzin Chana] in the 1950's-1960's". The letter is dated March 18, 1990.
Approx. 65x67 to 75x75 cm. Good condition. Light wear.
"Who, What, When, Where – Interesting and Curious Facts from the Tanach, Talmud and Midrash" (Yiddish), edited by Nissan Mindel, Gershon Kranzler and Uriel Zimmer. Brooklyn, New York: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, 1964.
Collection of facts and stories from Jewish history that were published between 1942-1964 in the popular column Mah Nishtanah of the Yiddish monthly Shmuessen Mit Kinder Un Yugent; with many illustrations.
The book was gifted by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to his nephew R. Shalom Dov Ber (Barry) Gurary. In an enclosed letter of authenticity (handwritten note in English, signed in Hebrew), Barry Gurary describes how he received the book from his uncle: "I hereby gift… the book ווער-וואס-ווען-וואו that my uncle handed me once while visiting my parents during Tishrei [in their apartment in the third story of 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn] and my uncle was running out of his office [on the first story of 770]. He quickly returned in to his room and handed me this book. I was polite I took it and just put it on the bookshelf in my house". The letter is dated March 4, 1990.
[5], 6-75, [4] pages. 25.5 cm. Good condition. Light wear. Original binding.