Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Sold for: $525
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Manuscript leaves, novellae and Torah writings, in the handwriting of Rabbi Chaim Berlin:
• Two pages, homiletics on the topic of burning chametz. Apparently, part of his commentary on the Passover Haggadah which was never printed. The pamphlet Imrei Chaim with a few compilations by Rabbi Chaim on the Passover Haggadah was printed at the end of the Imrei Shefer commentary on the Haggadah written by his father, the Netziv, (Tel Aviv edition, 1960), but these novellae were not printed there.
• 1 page (on a cover of a book), short inscriptions of homiletics on the subject of vessels of the Mikdash and Pitum HaKetoret.
• 1 leaf, cover of book, with the stamp of Rabbi Chaim Berlin, and an index to the responsa of Rabbi Betzalel Ashkenasi in his handwriting.
The renowned Rabbi Chaim Berlin (1832-1912, Otzar HaRabbanim 5925), eldest son of the Netziv of Volozhin was Chief Rabbi of Moscow and his Torah influence spread all over Russia. Served for a while as head of the Volozhin Yeshiva and its Av Beit Din and in the rabbinate of Kobrin and Yelisavetgrad. One of the most illustrious rabbis of his times in all facets of the Torah. Ascended to Jerusalem in 1906. After the death of Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi Chaim was acknowledged in the merit of his Torah greatness as the rabbi of the Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem, although he refused to officially accept the position.
3 items, varied size and condition. Worm damages.
• Two pages, homiletics on the topic of burning chametz. Apparently, part of his commentary on the Passover Haggadah which was never printed. The pamphlet Imrei Chaim with a few compilations by Rabbi Chaim on the Passover Haggadah was printed at the end of the Imrei Shefer commentary on the Haggadah written by his father, the Netziv, (Tel Aviv edition, 1960), but these novellae were not printed there.
• 1 page (on a cover of a book), short inscriptions of homiletics on the subject of vessels of the Mikdash and Pitum HaKetoret.
• 1 leaf, cover of book, with the stamp of Rabbi Chaim Berlin, and an index to the responsa of Rabbi Betzalel Ashkenasi in his handwriting.
The renowned Rabbi Chaim Berlin (1832-1912, Otzar HaRabbanim 5925), eldest son of the Netziv of Volozhin was Chief Rabbi of Moscow and his Torah influence spread all over Russia. Served for a while as head of the Volozhin Yeshiva and its Av Beit Din and in the rabbinate of Kobrin and Yelisavetgrad. One of the most illustrious rabbis of his times in all facets of the Torah. Ascended to Jerusalem in 1906. After the death of Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi Chaim was acknowledged in the merit of his Torah greatness as the rabbi of the Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem, although he refused to officially accept the position.
3 items, varied size and condition. Worm damages.
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Manuscripts - Ashkenaz
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,188
Including buyer's premium
Kuntress of Torah novellae, about a treatise in Tractate Bava Metzia, in the handwriting of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, with his erasures and corrections, (some which were done at the time of writing and some in a different colored ink from a later time). New York, USA.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), the greatest Torah authority in the US, head of Charedi Jewry and of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah. Head of the Tiferet Yerushalayim Yeshiva in New York. Author of the Igrot Moshe responsa, the Dibrot Moshe novellae on the Talmud and Darash Moshe on the Torah.
5 leaves of official stationery, 28 cm. 10 closely written pages (until the end of the margins), good-fair condition, minor tears to leaf edges.
These novellae were printed in the Moriah compilation (Year 10, Issues 3-4 (111-112), Shevat 1981, pp. 38-47), but apparently were not printed in the Dibrot Moshe series. Added to the end is another passage with a comment on a different topic (Yevamot 55) which apparently was never printed.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), the greatest Torah authority in the US, head of Charedi Jewry and of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah. Head of the Tiferet Yerushalayim Yeshiva in New York. Author of the Igrot Moshe responsa, the Dibrot Moshe novellae on the Talmud and Darash Moshe on the Torah.
5 leaves of official stationery, 28 cm. 10 closely written pages (until the end of the margins), good-fair condition, minor tears to leaf edges.
These novellae were printed in the Moriah compilation (Year 10, Issues 3-4 (111-112), Shevat 1981, pp. 38-47), but apparently were not printed in the Dibrot Moshe series. Added to the end is another passage with a comment on a different topic (Yevamot 55) which apparently was never printed.
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Manuscripts - Ashkenaz
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $600
Sold for: $875
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Avi Ezri novellae on the Rambam Hilchot Kilayim, in the handwriting of the author, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mann Shach.
Rabbi Elazar Menachem-Mann Shach (1898-2002), was born in Lithuania and studied in his youth in Ponevezh, Slobodka and Slutzk yeshivas. Taught in the Klezk Yeshiva in Poland and was head of the Karlin Yeshiva in Luninyets. During the Holocaust years, he ascended to Eretz Israel and taught in the Klezk Yeshiva in Rehovot. Later, was appointed teacher and head of Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. Member and head of Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah, Rabbi Shach led the Torah world for decades. Author of the Avi Ezri series on the Rambam in which he invested much toil and effort. Other books of his teachings were published by his disciples.
3 leaves, written on one side. 33 cm. (the third leaf: 14 cm), newly bound.
Rabbi Elazar Menachem-Mann Shach (1898-2002), was born in Lithuania and studied in his youth in Ponevezh, Slobodka and Slutzk yeshivas. Taught in the Klezk Yeshiva in Poland and was head of the Karlin Yeshiva in Luninyets. During the Holocaust years, he ascended to Eretz Israel and taught in the Klezk Yeshiva in Rehovot. Later, was appointed teacher and head of Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. Member and head of Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah, Rabbi Shach led the Torah world for decades. Author of the Avi Ezri series on the Rambam in which he invested much toil and effort. Other books of his teachings were published by his disciples.
3 leaves, written on one side. 33 cm. (the third leaf: 14 cm), newly bound.
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Manuscripts - Ashkenaz
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,063
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Handwritten leaf, two sermons for Shofar blowing, handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Yossef Shalom Eliashiv. [Jerusalem, Elul, 1946].
The sermons were delivered prior to Shofar blowing on Rosh Hashanah 1947, in the first years of his service as Rabbi of "Hevrat Tife'eret Bachurim". Mussar reproof and awakening for repentance with reference to actual events, in a poetic and clear language. He speaks about "the Shofar as a herald calling to arrange our lives, from the start of the year until its ending, according to the Torah" and to observe the Torah devotedly.
He criticizes the disrespect regarding observing the Torah commandments widely spread among young people, and blames the parents who do not insist on biblical education, until they "see their sons go astray and do not protest". Interesting in particular is his reference to those who do not observe the Torah: "we have a Torah…with 613 commandments, and when we look at youngsters, our future generation, there is not much left of the Torah – no holidays, not observing the Shabbat, no Torah or Tefillin, no Tevilah or Tahara, only one thing is left: when there is trouble they also suffer since they are Jews…one converts and everybody knows that he is like a gentile, and if one does not observe the Shabbat in public he is considered a convert…"
Leaf, ca. 21 cm, 2 densely written pages, 90 lines, handwritten. Good condition.
The sermons were delivered prior to Shofar blowing on Rosh Hashanah 1947, in the first years of his service as Rabbi of "Hevrat Tife'eret Bachurim". Mussar reproof and awakening for repentance with reference to actual events, in a poetic and clear language. He speaks about "the Shofar as a herald calling to arrange our lives, from the start of the year until its ending, according to the Torah" and to observe the Torah devotedly.
He criticizes the disrespect regarding observing the Torah commandments widely spread among young people, and blames the parents who do not insist on biblical education, until they "see their sons go astray and do not protest". Interesting in particular is his reference to those who do not observe the Torah: "we have a Torah…with 613 commandments, and when we look at youngsters, our future generation, there is not much left of the Torah – no holidays, not observing the Shabbat, no Torah or Tefillin, no Tevilah or Tahara, only one thing is left: when there is trouble they also suffer since they are Jews…one converts and everybody knows that he is like a gentile, and if one does not observe the Shabbat in public he is considered a convert…"
Leaf, ca. 21 cm, 2 densely written pages, 90 lines, handwritten. Good condition.
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Manuscripts - Ashkenaz
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,125
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Manuscript, Torah novellae by Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz and shi'urim and sayings of leading Lithuanian yeshiva heads. Words of mussar and discourses in the handwriting of "Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz of Volozhin". Vilna, Jerusalem, 1935.
Discourses and Torah lessons heard from Lithuanian rabbis: Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, Rabbi Naftali Trop, Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Rabbi Chaim of Telz, Rabbi Shimon Shkop of Grodno, Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov of Ponovezh, the Gaon of Turik, Rabbi Mordechai Mirois of Radin, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rabbi Baruch Horwitz of Aleksotas, Rabbi Aharon Cohen, Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahane Shapira, and others. Orderly indexes of the notebook's contents.
On the binding is a title page in his handwriting: "Torah novellae on various topics – belongs to Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz of Volozhin, living now in Jerusalem and studying at the Knesset Yisrael Yeshiva (Slabodka) the Hebron Yeshiva 1935, Adar Aleph. I have come to our Holy Land on the first of month of Shevat and to the yeshiva on the 11th of Shevat".
Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz (1913-2011) was born in Volozhin and studied in the Remeiles Yeshiva in Vilna of Rabbi Shlomo Heiman, ascended to Eretz Israel in 1935 and studied at the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem. After his marriage, he began serving as Rosh Metivta at the Tiferet Zion Yeshiva and became close to the Chazon Ish. After a while, he was appointed head of the Ponovezh Yeshiva for younger boys. He taught Torah to students for almost 70 years and was known as one of the leading yeshiva heads in our times. A Torah scholar, highly admired in Torah circles. Many came to him for his counsel, prayers and blessing which were given from the depth of his heart.
Approximately 193 closely written pages, approximately 38/39 lines to a page, 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition, much wear and detached leaves.
Some of the things in this notebook were never printed.
Discourses and Torah lessons heard from Lithuanian rabbis: Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, Rabbi Naftali Trop, Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Rabbi Chaim of Telz, Rabbi Shimon Shkop of Grodno, Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov of Ponovezh, the Gaon of Turik, Rabbi Mordechai Mirois of Radin, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rabbi Baruch Horwitz of Aleksotas, Rabbi Aharon Cohen, Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahane Shapira, and others. Orderly indexes of the notebook's contents.
On the binding is a title page in his handwriting: "Torah novellae on various topics – belongs to Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz of Volozhin, living now in Jerusalem and studying at the Knesset Yisrael Yeshiva (Slabodka) the Hebron Yeshiva 1935, Adar Aleph. I have come to our Holy Land on the first of month of Shevat and to the yeshiva on the 11th of Shevat".
Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz (1913-2011) was born in Volozhin and studied in the Remeiles Yeshiva in Vilna of Rabbi Shlomo Heiman, ascended to Eretz Israel in 1935 and studied at the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem. After his marriage, he began serving as Rosh Metivta at the Tiferet Zion Yeshiva and became close to the Chazon Ish. After a while, he was appointed head of the Ponovezh Yeshiva for younger boys. He taught Torah to students for almost 70 years and was known as one of the leading yeshiva heads in our times. A Torah scholar, highly admired in Torah circles. Many came to him for his counsel, prayers and blessing which were given from the depth of his heart.
Approximately 193 closely written pages, approximately 38/39 lines to a page, 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition, much wear and detached leaves.
Some of the things in this notebook were never printed.
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Manuscripts - Ashkenaz
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