Handwritten halachic ruling, containing a summary of the arguments by the claimant and the defendant, as well as their signatures on the arbitration agreement, signed by Rabbi "Moshe Mintz of Brod". [Oven-Yashan, today Budapest), Cheshvan 1794. Rabbi Moshe Mintz [died in 1831, Ozar Ha’Rabbanim 14912] was a prominent Hungarian Torah scholar of his times. Rabbi of Oven Yashan (Old Buda; nowadays part of Budapest, Hungary) for many years, he left his imprint upon the Jewish community. He established a yeshiva gedola and had many disciples, including Rabbi Bendit Goitein, author of Kesef Nivchar, Av Beit Din of Hogyesz. Many of his disciples also attended the yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer. Author of the Maharam Mintz responsa (Prague 1827). [1] Leaf, 36.5 cm, good condition, wear and folding marks. Placed in an elaborate leather binding.

Letter by the Beit Din of Greiditz, signed by the Rabbi of the city, Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai, and the dayanim Rabbi Shimon son of Rabbi Moshe and Rabbi Yekutiel son of Rabbi Moshe of Lublin. Greiditz, Tevet 1812. The letter was sent to the Beit Din of Hamburg, headed by the Ra'avad Rabbi Lezil, regarding a debt to a widow from Greiditz by a person who moved to Hamburg. Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai, Av Beit Din of Greiditz (ca. 1730-1813), was a disciple of Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz and disciple and son-in-law of Rabbi Gedalya Tiktin, Av Beit Din of Swarzędz. After the death of his father-in-law in 1779, he adopted his young brother-in-law Avraham [who was seven years old at the time] and raised him like his own son and taught him Torah [he became the renowned Rabbi Avraham Tiktin who served as Av Beit Din of Breslau. Rabbi Tiktin mentions his brother-in-law and teacher in the introduction to his book, Petach HaBayit, and calls him a "true Torah genius and tsaddik"]. In 1795, he was appointed Av Beit Din of Greiditz and was celebrated as one of the greatest Torah scholars of his generation. His novellae were recently printed from a manuscript in the book "Chiddushei Rabbi Mordechai of Greiditz" (Jerusalem, 1981). Leaf, 33 cm. Good-fair condition, folding marks, stains and minor tears. On the reverse side of the leaf is an inscription of an address and the remnants of a wax stamp of the Greiditz community.

Varied collection of letters from various countries: Germany and Holland, France, Lithuania and Romania. Most of the letter were sent to the Bing family in Amsterdam, c. 1850-1870. Among the letters: · Letter by Rabbi Yosef Isaacson. Rotterdam, 1863. [Rabbi Yosef Isaacson (1813-1885) second son-in-law of the author of Aruch LaNer, served in the rabbinate of various German cities, and from 1849-1869 served in the Rotterdam (Holland) rabbinate]. · Letter by Rabbi Asher son of R' Meir Stern. Hamburg, c. 1860. [Rabbi Asher Anshel Stern (1820-1888), Av Beit Din of Hamburg, son-in-law of Rabbi Natan Adler Av Beit Din of London, author of Netina LaGer. Served 37 years in the Hamburg rabbinate]. · Letters by Rabbi Shimon Simcha Bamberger, to his sister-in-law, the wife of Carl Bing. Augsburg, 1870. [Rabbi Shimon Simcha Bamberger (1832-1898), son of the Würzburg rabbi and son-in-law of Rabbi Ya'akov Tedoska-Ashkenazi of Paris. Av Beit Din of Fischach and Aschaffenburg. Wrote: Sha'arei Simcha, Avodat HaLevi'im, Kol Simcha, etc.]. · Letters signed "The convert Avraham son of Avraham Avinu", Amsterdam, 1872. · Various letters from Holland, Paris and Germany, to the Bing family [c. 1850-1870]. · Letter by Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Klein, to Dr. Yelinek of Vienna. Brisk 1882. [Rabbi Yisrael Chaim Klein Av Beit Din of Maišiagala and Kharkiv. Authored a commentary on Sefer HaNefesh by Rabbi Shem Tov Falkira. Son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel head of the Minsk Yeshiva]. · Inheritance bill, with many signatures. Fălticeni, [1851]. Copy of the bill into Romanian from 1886, signed by the rabbi of the city Rabbi Yehoshua Falik Ze'ev Wolfson [1835-1910]. Etc. 30 items, size and condition vary. Letters in Hebrew, Yiddish, German and other languages.

Long letter, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Shmuel David Yungreiss. Balassagyarmat, Kislev 1880. Responsum to Torah novellae on matters of Choshen Mishpat, sent by Rabbi Yitzchak Weiss from the city of Ököritó [1840-mid 1890's, author of Toldot Yitzchak, disciple of the author of Ktav Sofer, son of Rabbi Shimon Ozer Weiss]. Rabbi Yungreiss opens with an apology: "I am very busy with my disciples, however I will respond according to the free time I can find because 'One should not pass by a mitzvah' and my disciples are here before me". He signs: "I will conclude with great blessings, your friend who loves you, written and signed at the crack of dawn of the 2nd of Kislev 1881. Shmuel David HaLevi". Rabbi Shmuel David HaLevi Yungreiss, (1838-1892), son of Rabbi Shraga Feish Yungreiss (Av Beit Din of Stężyca, disciple of the Chatam Sofer), and son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Asher Anshel Yungreiss, (Av Beit Din of Csenger, author of Menuchat Asher, famed as a holy wonder-worker). Studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva with the author of the Ktav Sofer who granted him semicha for the rabbinate. From 1868, he served in the Balassagyarmat rabbinate where he established his Yeshiva Gedola. He sat wrapped in his tallit and crowned with tefillin until noon and would then deliver his discourses to his disciples. His diligence was legendary and even while walking from place to place his lips would murmur words of Torah. He was also well known for his genius and holiness and always conducted himself with piety and halachic stringencies. He travelled twice a year to Siget to bask in the presence of the Rebbe, author of Yitav Lev and after the latter's death he travelled a few times to Mukacheve to the Rebbe, author of Shem Shlomo [once, when he received an Aliya to the Torah in the Beit Midrash of the Mukacheve Rebbe, the author of Darkei Teshuva whispered to his father the Rebbe, that the motions of the Rabbi of Balassagyarmat show that he studies Kabbalah. His father answered him, "I have already discussed revealed and hidden Torah with the Rabbi of Balassagyarmat and I know that he is greatly erudite also in the secrets of the holy Torah"]. Some of his Torah novellae were printed in Jerusalem in 1958, in the first volume of responsa of the Maharsheda. This letter has not yet been printed. Leaf, 21 cm. Two closely written pages, approximately 55 lines. Brittle paper, fair condition, wear and minor tears to margins + another leaf with the recipient's address in the handwriting of the sender.