Four books from the library of the Kabbalist Rabbi Ovadia Hedaya. His stamps appear on all the books: • Siddur Tefillat Yesharim, Mincha and Arvit for the festivals. Jerusalem, [c. 1940]. • Eshlei Ravrevei – Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De’ah, two volumes: Part 1 (Simanim 1-111). Vilnius 1894. Part 2 (Simanim 112-202). Vilnius 1894. Both volumes have his inscription and one has his signature as well: “Dedicated to me from someone who wishes to remain anonymous, Ovadia Hedaya”. Chiddushei HaRamban, Part 2 – Tractate Nezikin, Chulin and Nidah. Jerusalem 1929.
The Kabbalist Rabbi Ovadia Hedaya (1890-1969, Otzar HaRabbanim 16544), son of the senior Kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Hedaya. One of the heads of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva. Served as Chief Rabbi and head of the Bet Din of Petach Tikva. Member of the great Bet Din in Jerusalem. Established the Bet-El Kabbalist Yeshiva. The author of the eight volumes of the Yaskil Avdi responsa and of additional books in the subjects of revealed and esoteric realms of the Torah. 4 books. Varying size. Overall good condition.

Sefer Divrei Yitzchak, homiletics, by Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Rabinowitz Av Beit Din of Šiauliai, with Sefer Divrei Chaim, by his son Rabbi Chaim Rabinowitz Chief Av Beit Din of Šiauliai. Piotrków, 1909.
Damaged and incomplete copy. Handwritten notation on the first flyleaf: “Aharon HaCohen of Radin, from the dynasty of my mentor and father-in-law the Chafetz Chaim”; apparently the handwriting is of Rabbi Aharon HaCohen [author of Avodat Hakorbonot], son-in-law of the Chafetz Chaim, who is indicating that the book belongs to the library of his esteemed father-in-law.
4, 98, 101-102, 107-108, 113-128; 17-80 pages (originally: 4, 128; 80 pages; missing: 13 leaves). Dry, brittle paper. Fair-poor condition. Stains, wear and tears. Few worm damages. Detached pages. Damaged and detached binding.

Tosefta, according to the Erfurt and Vienna manuscripts, with sources and variations of versions and index [in German], by Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Tzukermandel. Jerusalem, 1938. Second edition, with "Tosefta completion" by Rabbi Shaul Leiberman, head of the Harry Fischel Institute for Talmudic Research. Additions and other variations [most of the book is a photocopy of the first edition printed in Pozeṿalḳ in 1881, with the appendix printed in Trier in 1882]. Picture-plate, full-page photograph of Vienna manuscript.
On the binding leaves and on the title page are owners' signatures and stamps which were later covered by a sticker, Rabbi "Yitzchak Shlomo Zilberman" of Jerusalem. On the sticker pasted on the flyleaf is a dedication handwritten and signed by Rabbi Schach: "A gift to my dear loved one Rabbi Noach Shimonowitz upon the joyous day of his marriage, the 3rd of Tevet 1945, Jerusalem. From he who loves him, Elazar Menachem Schach".
Rabbi Noach Shimonowitz (1907-1955), was an outstanding Lithuanian Torah scholar, disciple of Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman and Rabbi Baruch ber Leibowitz and close disciple of the Brisker Rav Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’ev Soloveitchik. During the Holocaust, he escaped to Jerusalem and in 1945 he married the daughter of Rabbi Chizkiyahu Mishkovsky Av Beit Din of Krynki. In 1949, he established the Knesset Chizkiyahu Yeshiva in Zichron Ya’akov, and in 1955, a few days after the yeshiva moved to its new premises in Kfar Chassidim, he suddenly died. His brother-in-law Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Mishkovsky succeeded him as head of the yeshiva.
Rabbi Elazar Menachem Schach (1899-2002), became Rabbi Noach’s close friend at the home of their teacher Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’ev of Brisk in Jerusalem. Due to the dire poverty at that time in Jerusalem, Rabbe Schach bought a second-hand gift from the library of the young yeshiva student Rabbi Yitzchak Shlomo Zilberman (1928-2001) who had immigrated from Berlin to Jerusalem in the 1940s and later became famous as a prominent Torah scholar and as a Jewish philosopher erudite in Torah philosophy and in kabalistic wisdom. He established educational institutes and renewed the Charedi yishuv in the Old City of Jerusalem.
63, [1]; 7, [1], 690, [2]; [LXLIV, 3] pages. [2] picture-plates. 23 cm. Good-fair condition, detached leaves and torn binding.

Collection of books from the library of Rabbi Yisrael Freund Av Bet Din of Szàszrégen, with glosses, stamps and signatures by the Szàszrégen rabbis:
• Avnei Milu'im, on Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer, by Rabbi Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller. Stettin, 1860. • Simlah Chadashah – Tvu'ot Shor, on the laws of Yoreh De'ah, by Rabbi Alexander Sender Schorr, with commentaries: Levushei Srad, Da'at Kedoshim, etc. Warsaw, [1901]. • Keren Le'David, responsa on Orach Chaim, Rabbi Eliezer David Greenwald. Satmar, 1929.
• Yad Ramah responsa, on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch and novellae on treatises, Rabbi Moshe Zvi Fuchs. Grosswardein, 1939.
On the flyleaf of Avnei Milu'im is the signature of Hillel Pollack. Rabbi Hillel Pollack (1810-1893, HaChatam Sofer and his Pupils, pages 124-126), a disciple of the Chatam Sofer who called him and his relative and friend, Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein, "Kodesh Hillulim LaHashem". He was the rabbi of Szàszrégen (Hungary) from 1866 until his death.
All the books include glosses written by his grandson Rabbi Yisrael Freund, who also served in the Szàszrégen rabbinate, and was a disciple of the author of “Ktav Sofer” and Rabbi Moshe Zvi Fuchs - author of “Yad Rama”. He was a prominent rabbi in Hungary, and was murdered together with his community in the Holocaust in 1944. In Auschwitz, he delivered a testament to his son, and expressed his wish to print his writings.
In the book “Yad Rama”, written by his teacher Rabbi M. Z. Fuchs, Rabbi Freund writes his comments in awe and self-depreciation before his teacher: “I beg forgiveness from my Master, my Rebbe, I am dust under his feet but what can I do, for I did not understand his meaning… “. His stamp appears in the second book.
Signatures appear in both books. All books include stamps and glosses of his son Rabbi David Yehuda Freund (died 1985), son in law of Rabbi Yechezkel Panet, Rabbi in Batiz, later his father’s “assistant rabbi” in Szàszrégen and thereafter Rabbi of the ”Yere’im” congregation in Bucharest. He survived the Holocaust, married the sister of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kahn, The Rebbe of “Toldot Aharon”, moved to Palestine and served as rabbi in Netanya and then in Jerusalem. He authored “Alufei Yehuda”.
4 books. Varied size. Overall good condition.