Two notebooks in the handwriting of Rabbi Moshe Freidiger. [Budapest], 1852.
Sermon for Passover and sermon for Shabbat Parshat Miketz after Chanuka, Ketubot in "Yiddish-Deitch". On the title page of each notebook is a date and signature of Rabbi Moshe Freidiger in Hebrew and Hungarian.
Rabbi Moshe Freidiger, author of "Moshe Yedaber" (1818-1897), son of Rabbi Pinchas Leib Ra'avad of Budapest, astounding Torah scholar and outstanding speaker who refused to fill a rabbinical position. Served as community leader of the Yere’im community in Budapest. His firstborn, Rabbi Avraham Freidiger was the head of the Budapest community (son in law of Rabbi Yitzchak Leib Sofer son of the Ktav Sofer), father of Rabbi Pinchas David Freidiger, (son in law of the Pressburg Rabbi, author of the “Da’at Sofer”).
Two notebooks, [15] leaves; [17] leaves; 18 cm. Good condition. Spotting and wear.

Long letter of words of Torah, on the treatise of women reciting blessings when performing mitzvoth, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Yitzchak Tobias. Ujhely, 1927. The letter was sent to "My disciple the sharp young man… Avraham Avli HaCohen Rappaport".
Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Yitzchak Tobias, an extraordinary Torah scholar, served as dayan in the city of Ujhely. He died in Auschwitz in 1944 [is mentioned in the list of those who perished as Herman Tobias]. See the Sefer Zicharon (book of commemoration) of the Ujhely community (p.75 in the part written in Hungarian).
4 pages, 34 cm. Good condition, tears.

Manuscript: Responsa on Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah and Choshen Mishpat. By Rabbi Mordechai Neta Margolin, Av Beit Din of Snovsk (Russia, Chernihiv district). With a letter of approbation handwritten and signed by Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz, Av Beit Din of Minsk, Tamuz 1923.
A complete work arranged for print, by Rabbi Mordechai Neta Margolin, an outstanding Torah scholar and a Chabad Chassid. He served as Torah authority and Rabbi of the city of Snovsk for more than 40 years. Already in 1882, he received a response from the Netziv of Volozhin (Meshiv Davar responsa, Part 2 Siman 63). The manuscript includes several responsa, written to Rabbi Chaim Eliezer HaCohen Bichovsky [a Chabad Chassid who lived in Snovsk and later moved to Jerusalem. There, in 1924, he published the book Ginzei Nistarot, derived from the treasures of the Cherson Geniza].
The responsa includes a responsum addressed to "The Gaon, the Tzaddik, author of the Chafetz Chaim, at the time he resided in Snovsk" [The Chafetz Chaim arrived in Snovsk with his family and his Yeshiva at the end of World War I, during the winter of 1920. Snovsk was their last refuge during the war before they could return to Radin], and a responsa concerning halachic queries of "Rabbi Eliezer [Kaplan], son-in-law of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch [Levinson], son-in-law of the Chafetz Chaim". Among other things, he mentions matters shown to him by "My friend, very clever and great in Torah and fear of Heaven Rabbi Naftali [Trop], teacher in the Yeshiva of the Chafetz Chaim".
The approbation was written by the renowned Torah scholar Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz (1859-1924), who in his youth was known as the "Genius of Kiev" and studied in Slutzk from the author of Beit HaLevi and in the Volozhin Yeshiva. He was a son-in-law of Rabbi Yerucham Leib "The Great Rabbi of Minsk", author of Or Gadol and his successor in the Minsk rabbinate. He was known as one of the most prominent Lithuanian rabbis and he too was dubbed the "Great Rabbi of Minsk". After the eruption of the communist revolution in 1917, the rabbi was jailed in a Russian prison and released after some time but this did not dampen his spirit and he continued leading his community just as before, in spite of the government's persecution. The remnants of his Torah novellae were covertly smuggled from Russia and printed in the book Mishnat Eliezer (Jerusalem, 1962). This is a rare letter written at that time, in the last half year of his life.
2-55 leaves, 21.5 cm. Fair condition, wear, dirt stains and fungus damage. Sewn notebook, unbound + a glued letter of approbation, 21 cm. Very good condition.

Notebook of the treasury of the Ohel Torah Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Contains the lists of all office expenses as well as the allotments to Kollel students from 1935-1946.
Beit Midrash Ohel Torah, founded by Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman (Author of "Or HaYashar", son-in-law of Rabbi Herzog), and Rabbi Aharon Bialistotzki, one of the first Kollelim for married men in a similar format used for today's Kollelim. The allotments were generous and due to its great demand, only the best Torah students were accepted, most of them alumni of the Chevron Yeshiva and Lithuanian Yeshivot. Many became renowned rabbis. Among them: Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rabbi Binyamin Yehoshua Zilber, Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak Levine, Rabbi Shlomo Tene, Rabbi Moshe Tikochinsky and Rabbi Shalom Shvadron and Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner.
According to the entries in this notebook, it seems that Rabbi Wosner was accepted to the Kollel in Adar Aleph 1940, and in Iyar of the same year Rabbi Elyashiv was accepted to the Kollel and yet from the start Rabbi Elyashiv received the maximum allotment given to the Kollel members.
105 leaves, approximately 190 written pages. 24.5 cm. Very good condition. Original binding.