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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Imrei Binah, on the monotheism in the first verse of Kri'at Shema, Sha'ar HaKri'at Shema, Sha'ar HaTzitzit and Sha'ar HaTefillin, by "The famous great Rebbe Dov Ber Shai". Kopust, [1821]. Printed by Rabbi Yisrael Yaffe. First edition printed in the lifetime of the second Chabad rebbe, Rabbi Dov Ber Schneerson called the "Middle Rebbe".
21, 56, [1-marked: 67], 55-140 leaves. 20.5 cm. High-quality paper, good-fair condition, worm damages. Restored first and last leaves. Blurred signatures: "Lifshitz", "Yisrael Leib". Elaborate semi-leather binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 55.
21, 56, [1-marked: 67], 55-140 leaves. 20.5 cm. High-quality paper, good-fair condition, worm damages. Restored first and last leaves. Blurred signatures: "Lifshitz", "Yisrael Leib". Elaborate semi-leather binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 55.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
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Sha'arei HaYichud V'HaEmuna, commentary on the Tanya [on Sha'ar HaYichud V'HaEmuna], by Rabbi Aharon HaLevi "The one singular disciple of our great rabbi… Rabbi Shnuer Zalman [from Liadi] who was his student for thirty years and did not move from him until he revealed all the secrets of his wisdom…". Shklow, [1820]. First edition.
Rebbe Aharon HaLevi Horowitz of Strashelye (1766-1829, Encyclopedia L'Chassidut Vol. 1, pp. 147-151), a prominent disciple of the author of the Tanya. After the death of his rabbi in 1813, some of the Chassidim of the Admor HaZaken ordained Rabbi Aharon as his successor. Consequently, Rabbi Aharon established his own court and this instigated a fierce dispute between him and Rebbe Dov Ber ("The Middle Rebbe"), son and successor of the Ba'al HaTanya. The two also disagreed on the exegesis of the Tanya and on other issues of service of G-d. Nonetheless, his compositions and melodies were accepted by Chabad Chassidism. His many writings on Chassidism and Kabbalah were printed and are counted among basic Chassidic literature. Besides the first editions, his books were not reprinted for many years and are therefore rare.
Comlete copy, [18], 4, 4, 9-56, 60, 52, 44, [2], 28, [4] leaves. Mispaginated. Light bluish paper. 16.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Minor restoration to title page and to several leaves. Worm marks to few leaves. Attractive new leather binding.
Stefansky Chassidut no. 582.
Rebbe Aharon HaLevi Horowitz of Strashelye (1766-1829, Encyclopedia L'Chassidut Vol. 1, pp. 147-151), a prominent disciple of the author of the Tanya. After the death of his rabbi in 1813, some of the Chassidim of the Admor HaZaken ordained Rabbi Aharon as his successor. Consequently, Rabbi Aharon established his own court and this instigated a fierce dispute between him and Rebbe Dov Ber ("The Middle Rebbe"), son and successor of the Ba'al HaTanya. The two also disagreed on the exegesis of the Tanya and on other issues of service of G-d. Nonetheless, his compositions and melodies were accepted by Chabad Chassidism. His many writings on Chassidism and Kabbalah were printed and are counted among basic Chassidic literature. Besides the first editions, his books were not reprinted for many years and are therefore rare.
Comlete copy, [18], 4, 4, 9-56, 60, 52, 44, [2], 28, [4] leaves. Mispaginated. Light bluish paper. 16.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Minor restoration to title page and to several leaves. Worm marks to few leaves. Attractive new leather binding.
Stefansky Chassidut no. 582.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Collections of books, Tzemach Tzedek, authored by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson of Lubavitch, first editions printed in Vilna 1870-1884:
• Tzemach Tzedek responsa – Even HaEzer, Parts 1-2. • Tzemach Tzedek responsa – Yoreh Deah Parts 1-3. • Tzemach Tzedek – novellae on the six Sidrei Mishna and on the Talmud. • Tzemach Tzedek – rulings, on all four parts of the Shulchan Aruch, Parts 1-2. [At the end of Choshen Mishpat, on p. 138 are the author's words on the teachings of the Vilna Gaon: "In my lowly state, I did not merit understanding his holy words". Other copies exist in which this leaf was replaced with a "revised" leaf wherein the question was changed to "And this is not a response"].
For a complete list, please see Hebrew description.
10 books in 5 volumes. Varied size and condition. Good-fair to fair condition.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 502, 503, 504.
• Tzemach Tzedek responsa – Even HaEzer, Parts 1-2. • Tzemach Tzedek responsa – Yoreh Deah Parts 1-3. • Tzemach Tzedek – novellae on the six Sidrei Mishna and on the Talmud. • Tzemach Tzedek – rulings, on all four parts of the Shulchan Aruch, Parts 1-2. [At the end of Choshen Mishpat, on p. 138 are the author's words on the teachings of the Vilna Gaon: "In my lowly state, I did not merit understanding his holy words". Other copies exist in which this leaf was replaced with a "revised" leaf wherein the question was changed to "And this is not a response"].
For a complete list, please see Hebrew description.
10 books in 5 volumes. Varied size and condition. Good-fair to fair condition.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 502, 503, 504.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Four books of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, author of Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch.
• “Tzemach Tzedek”, responsa. Even HaEzer, Part 1. Vilnius, 1870. First edition. (Stamp of Rabbi Avraham Katz Weisbord of Smolensk). • “Tzemach Tzedek”, responsa. Even HaEzer, Part 2. Vilnius, 1872. First edition. • “Derech Emuna”, called also “Sefer HaChakira”, Poltava, [1912]. First edition. Bound with: • "Additions to the book Derech Emuna", and homiletics for Chanukah. Berdychiv, [1913]. First edition.
Four books in three volumes. Varied size and condition.
• “Tzemach Tzedek”, responsa. Even HaEzer, Part 1. Vilnius, 1870. First edition. (Stamp of Rabbi Avraham Katz Weisbord of Smolensk). • “Tzemach Tzedek”, responsa. Even HaEzer, Part 2. Vilnius, 1872. First edition. • “Derech Emuna”, called also “Sefer HaChakira”, Poltava, [1912]. First edition. Bound with: • "Additions to the book Derech Emuna", and homiletics for Chanukah. Berdychiv, [1913]. First edition.
Four books in three volumes. Varied size and condition.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Collection of Chabad Chassidic books, containing books of significant and first editions:
• Likutei Torah, Part 3. Devarim and the Tishrei festivals, compilations of teachings of the Admor HaZaken Rebbe Shnuer Zalman. Zhitomir, 1848. Printed by Rabbi Chanina Lipa, Rabbi Aryeh Leib and Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Shapira. First edition. Stefansky Chassidut no. 297. (Inscription signed by Rabbi "Efraim Eliezer HaCohen [Yoles]). • Derech Mitzvotecha (Part 1), Ta'amei HaMitzvot. By the author of Tzemach Tzedek, Poltava, [1911]. First edition. • Derech Mitzvotecha – Part 2, explanation of words of prayer. By the author of Tzemach Tzedek. Poltava, [1912]. First edition. • Derech Mitzvotecha (Part 1), Ta’amei HaMitzvot. By the author of Tzemach Tzedek, Poltava, [1914]. Second edition. • Derech Emuna – Sefer HaChakira, by the author of Tzemach Tzedek. Poltava, [1912]. First edition. • Chana Ariel, Chabad homiletics on the Torah. Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Epstein Av Beit Din of Homyel. Parts 3-5. Berdychiv, [1912].
6 books, 25-25.5 cm. Varied condition, good to good-fair.
• Likutei Torah, Part 3. Devarim and the Tishrei festivals, compilations of teachings of the Admor HaZaken Rebbe Shnuer Zalman. Zhitomir, 1848. Printed by Rabbi Chanina Lipa, Rabbi Aryeh Leib and Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Shapira. First edition. Stefansky Chassidut no. 297. (Inscription signed by Rabbi "Efraim Eliezer HaCohen [Yoles]). • Derech Mitzvotecha (Part 1), Ta'amei HaMitzvot. By the author of Tzemach Tzedek, Poltava, [1911]. First edition. • Derech Mitzvotecha – Part 2, explanation of words of prayer. By the author of Tzemach Tzedek. Poltava, [1912]. First edition. • Derech Mitzvotecha (Part 1), Ta’amei HaMitzvot. By the author of Tzemach Tzedek, Poltava, [1914]. Second edition. • Derech Emuna – Sefer HaChakira, by the author of Tzemach Tzedek. Poltava, [1912]. First edition. • Chana Ariel, Chabad homiletics on the Torah. Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Epstein Av Beit Din of Homyel. Parts 3-5. Berdychiv, [1912].
6 books, 25-25.5 cm. Varied condition, good to good-fair.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Chabad Chassidism – collection of books and booklets.
For a complete list, please see the Hebrew description.
10 items, varied size and condition.
For a complete list, please see the Hebrew description.
10 items, varied size and condition.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Large collection of Chabad Chassidic books (including bibliographic books on the books of the Admor HaZaken).
For a complete list, please see the Hebrew description.
Approximately 40 books and booklets, varied size and condition. A detailed list will be sent upon request.
For a complete list, please see the Hebrew description.
Approximately 40 books and booklets, varied size and condition. A detailed list will be sent upon request.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Collection of books and booklets, of Chabad Chassidism, some with signatures and dedications. 1876-1953.
For a complete list, please see Hebrew description.
14 items, composed of more than 30 books and booklets. Varied size and condition, good to fair-poor.
For a complete list, please see Hebrew description.
14 items, composed of more than 30 books and booklets. Varied size and condition, good to fair-poor.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Ma'amar Yetzi'at Mitzrayim, first Chassidic essay of 10 essays written by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Epstein Av Beit Din of Homyel, the distinctive disciple of Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, and disciple of his son the "Middle" Rebbe Dov Ber. Vilna, 1877. Only edition. On Page 38 is a handwritten gloss, from the time of printing.
Bound with a manuscript, Ma'amarei Chabad, two long essays, with the teachings of the Rebbe Maharash – Rabbi Shmuel, the fourth of the Lubavitch dynasty. Essays - "Im kesef talve" and "Ki Tisah", written in 1878.
58 pages, printed; [90] handwritten pages. 21.5 cm. High-quality paper, fair condition, worm damages (on text). New binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 318.
Bound with a manuscript, Ma'amarei Chabad, two long essays, with the teachings of the Rebbe Maharash – Rabbi Shmuel, the fourth of the Lubavitch dynasty. Essays - "Im kesef talve" and "Ki Tisah", written in 1878.
58 pages, printed; [90] handwritten pages. 21.5 cm. High-quality paper, fair condition, worm damages (on text). New binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 318.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Manuscript, Chassidic essays of Lubavitch-Chabad Rebbes. Most of the essays are teachings of the Rashab of Lubavitch – Rabbi Shalom Duber Schneerson. 1892-1898.
Most of the pamphlets were written by one person, in attractive handwriting, with comments and corrections in the margins. Essays for Parshat Zachor, teki'at shofar, Bar-Mitzvah, wedding, etc.
Approximately 172 written pages (pagination of Leaves 75-135, with skipped leaves). 22 cm. Varying condition good to fair, worm holes, damages and tears to few leaves, new leather binding.
Most of the pamphlets were written by one person, in attractive handwriting, with comments and corrections in the margins. Essays for Parshat Zachor, teki'at shofar, Bar-Mitzvah, wedding, etc.
Approximately 172 written pages (pagination of Leaves 75-135, with skipped leaves). 22 cm. Varying condition good to fair, worm holes, damages and tears to few leaves, new leather binding.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
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Manuscript, "copy of a letter by the Lubavitch Rebbe", Shalom Dov Ber Schneerson – a copy of his historical letter written on the 10 th of Tamuz 1899.
Among other things he writes: "…Even if these people completely fulfilled G-d's will and his Torah, and even if there were grounds for thinking that they would reach their goal, we are not to heed them in this matter to achieve our redemption by our own strength. Behold, we are not allowed to force the redemption even by insistent entreaties… how much more so by force and material schemes… i.e. we are not allowed to force our way out of exile and this will not be our redemption…". Further in the letter, the Rashab sharply criticizes the Zionist leaders who blaspheme basic Jewish beliefs and fight to destroy the education of Torah and fear of Heaven to exchange it for the "Torah" of the new nationalism.
Written on official stationery of Rabbi "Pesach ben Rabbi Chanoch Hendel Freidland" from the city of Kremenchuk. Rabbi Pesach Freidland (1869-1942), son of Rabbi Chanoch Hendel Freidland [1850-1914, Av Beit Din of Porechye, Babruysk region], student at the Volozhin Yeshiva. A founder of the Zionist Union Nes Tziona. Delegate at the convention of Jewish Public Activists from the entire Tsarist Russia who convened in Kovno in 1910. He was an active member of the Mizrachi Union from the beginning of its establishment. Delegate of the Mizrachi convention in Lida in 1903 and a Mizrachi delegate to all the Zionist congresses from the second congress until the thirteenth. In 1922, he moved to Jerusalem and was one of the founders of the Mizrachi Bank.
4 pages, 21 cm. good condition.
Among other things he writes: "…Even if these people completely fulfilled G-d's will and his Torah, and even if there were grounds for thinking that they would reach their goal, we are not to heed them in this matter to achieve our redemption by our own strength. Behold, we are not allowed to force the redemption even by insistent entreaties… how much more so by force and material schemes… i.e. we are not allowed to force our way out of exile and this will not be our redemption…". Further in the letter, the Rashab sharply criticizes the Zionist leaders who blaspheme basic Jewish beliefs and fight to destroy the education of Torah and fear of Heaven to exchange it for the "Torah" of the new nationalism.
Written on official stationery of Rabbi "Pesach ben Rabbi Chanoch Hendel Freidland" from the city of Kremenchuk. Rabbi Pesach Freidland (1869-1942), son of Rabbi Chanoch Hendel Freidland [1850-1914, Av Beit Din of Porechye, Babruysk region], student at the Volozhin Yeshiva. A founder of the Zionist Union Nes Tziona. Delegate at the convention of Jewish Public Activists from the entire Tsarist Russia who convened in Kovno in 1910. He was an active member of the Mizrachi Union from the beginning of its establishment. Delegate of the Mizrachi convention in Lida in 1903 and a Mizrachi delegate to all the Zionist congresses from the second congress until the thirteenth. In 1922, he moved to Jerusalem and was one of the founders of the Mizrachi Bank.
4 pages, 21 cm. good condition.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,500
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Letter in Yiddish in the handwriting of Rebbetzin Chaya Shterna Schneerson wife of the Rebbe the Rashab, sent to "My honorable and modest friend Musha Chaya". Tishrei 1928.
Rebbetzin Sarah Shterna – the fifth rebbetzin of the Chabad dynasty, was born in 1859 to her father Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak of Ovruch son of the Tzemach Tzedek and to her mother, daughter of Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael of Cherkasy, son-in-law of the Middle Rebbe. In 1865, her betrothal to the Rashab was celebrated in the home of her illustrious grandfather, author of the Tzemach Tzedek (the bride and groom were 5 years old at the time), and their marriage took place ten years later in 1875. In 1940, she immigrated with her only son the Rebbe the Rayatz to the USA and in 1942 she died. She was renowned for her righteousness and her wisdom. The girls' school network Beit Sarah established by her son the Rayatz, was named after her.
1 leaf, 27 cm. 11 handwritten lines. Good condition, creases and folding marks.
Rebbetzin Sarah Shterna – the fifth rebbetzin of the Chabad dynasty, was born in 1859 to her father Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak of Ovruch son of the Tzemach Tzedek and to her mother, daughter of Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael of Cherkasy, son-in-law of the Middle Rebbe. In 1865, her betrothal to the Rashab was celebrated in the home of her illustrious grandfather, author of the Tzemach Tzedek (the bride and groom were 5 years old at the time), and their marriage took place ten years later in 1875. In 1940, she immigrated with her only son the Rebbe the Rayatz to the USA and in 1942 she died. She was renowned for her righteousness and her wisdom. The girls' school network Beit Sarah established by her son the Rayatz, was named after her.
1 leaf, 27 cm. 11 handwritten lines. Good condition, creases and folding marks.
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