Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
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Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
September 3, 2014
Opening: $300
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Contact notebook, of the office of Rebbe Ya'akov Halberstam of Tschakowa, printed leaves completed by hand with various details, requests and names for which to pray and for blessings, in the handwriting of the Rebbe and his assistants. US, c. 1944-1947.
Printed leaves with the title "Notes for the Holy Sites in the Holy Land" – with place to fill in various details for keeping contact with the many people who applied for his assistance: What do they request? When did they apply and who directed them? From which country did they arrive and from which city? To which rebbes were they connected in the past? How much "Pidyon funds" did they give? What language do they speak? Also entered is an address for contact and for sending receipts.
Rebbe Ya'akov Halberstam of Tschakowa (1897-1968), son of Rabbi Sinai the Rebbe of Żmigród, (son of Rabbi Baruch of Gorlice, son of the author of the Divrei Chaim) son-in-law of Rebbe Shalom of (Shotz) Suceava. From 1925 he served as Av Beit din of Tschakowa. In 1934, he dreamt of the approaching Holocaust, left the rabbinate and ascended to Jerusalem, there he established his Beit Midrash. During the Holocaust he was in the US and was very active in the Vaad HaHatzala and in Kiruv. After the Holocaust he returned to Israel to his wife and children but most of the year he stayed in the US. His sons are the famous Torah scholars Rabbi Moshe Halberstam and Rabbi Naftali Halberstam the Rebbi of Tschakowa, one of the heads of the Eda HaCharedit.
More than 160 leaves, approximately 24 cm. Fair condition, wear and spotting. Bound with metal rings of a binder (without the binder covers).
Printed leaves with the title "Notes for the Holy Sites in the Holy Land" – with place to fill in various details for keeping contact with the many people who applied for his assistance: What do they request? When did they apply and who directed them? From which country did they arrive and from which city? To which rebbes were they connected in the past? How much "Pidyon funds" did they give? What language do they speak? Also entered is an address for contact and for sending receipts.
Rebbe Ya'akov Halberstam of Tschakowa (1897-1968), son of Rabbi Sinai the Rebbe of Żmigród, (son of Rabbi Baruch of Gorlice, son of the author of the Divrei Chaim) son-in-law of Rebbe Shalom of (Shotz) Suceava. From 1925 he served as Av Beit din of Tschakowa. In 1934, he dreamt of the approaching Holocaust, left the rabbinate and ascended to Jerusalem, there he established his Beit Midrash. During the Holocaust he was in the US and was very active in the Vaad HaHatzala and in Kiruv. After the Holocaust he returned to Israel to his wife and children but most of the year he stayed in the US. His sons are the famous Torah scholars Rabbi Moshe Halberstam and Rabbi Naftali Halberstam the Rebbi of Tschakowa, one of the heads of the Eda HaCharedit.
More than 160 leaves, approximately 24 cm. Fair condition, wear and spotting. Bound with metal rings of a binder (without the binder covers).
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Chassidism – Signatures and Dedications, Manuscripts and Letters
Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
September 3, 2014
Opening: $400
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Letter of receipt and blessings signed by Rebbe Avraham Elimelech Perlow. [Karlin, 1920s – 1930s].
Rebbe Avraham Elimelech Perlow (1981-1943, Encyclopedia L'Chassidut Vol. 1, p. 57), the most famous among the Rebbe's six sons, the Yanuka Rabbi Yisrael of Stolin (the Frankfurter) who died in 1822 and was buried in Frankfurt. Most of his father's Chassidim in Russia and in Eretz Israel followed him and to prevent a dispute with his brother, Rebbe Moshe of Stolin, he moved and established his court in Karlin near Pinsk and established the Karlin Yeshiva in Luninyets. He perished in the Holocaust together with his children.
Official stationery. [1] leaf, 21 cm. Fair condition, restored tears.
Rebbe Avraham Elimelech Perlow (1981-1943, Encyclopedia L'Chassidut Vol. 1, p. 57), the most famous among the Rebbe's six sons, the Yanuka Rabbi Yisrael of Stolin (the Frankfurter) who died in 1822 and was buried in Frankfurt. Most of his father's Chassidim in Russia and in Eretz Israel followed him and to prevent a dispute with his brother, Rebbe Moshe of Stolin, he moved and established his court in Karlin near Pinsk and established the Karlin Yeshiva in Luninyets. He perished in the Holocaust together with his children.
Official stationery. [1] leaf, 21 cm. Fair condition, restored tears.
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Chassidism – Signatures and Dedications, Manuscripts and Letters
Manuscripts and Letters
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Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
September 3, 2014
Opening: $300
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
Collection of letters and invitations with handwritten inscriptions, by rabbis and rebbes, recent times. [Eretz Israel and the US, 20/21 century].
Letters from the following rebbes: Rabbi Chanoch of Sochaczew, Rabbi Alter Kahana of Zhydachiv-Spinka, Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Meir Hager of Vishnitz, Ya'akov Moskowitz of Suceava, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Leifer of Nadvorna, Rabbi Moshe Elyakim Beria Cahana of Spinka, Rabbi Ya'akov Meir Shechter a leader of Breslev Chassidism. And the Rebbes of Makov, Komarno, Narol, Neustadt etc.
Attached is a memorial booklet (photos from the HaModia newspaper) which was printed after the death of the Gerrer Rebbe author of Beit Yisrael, in 1977.
16 items, including 14 letters and signed invitations.
Letters from the following rebbes: Rabbi Chanoch of Sochaczew, Rabbi Alter Kahana of Zhydachiv-Spinka, Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Meir Hager of Vishnitz, Ya'akov Moskowitz of Suceava, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Leifer of Nadvorna, Rabbi Moshe Elyakim Beria Cahana of Spinka, Rabbi Ya'akov Meir Shechter a leader of Breslev Chassidism. And the Rebbes of Makov, Komarno, Narol, Neustadt etc.
Attached is a memorial booklet (photos from the HaModia newspaper) which was printed after the death of the Gerrer Rebbe author of Beit Yisrael, in 1977.
16 items, including 14 letters and signed invitations.
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Chassidism – Signatures and Dedications, Manuscripts and Letters
Manuscripts and Letters
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