Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $1,000
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Manuscript, Torah novellae on the Talmud and the Shulchan Aruch, written in the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust by R. Shmuel Menachem Leib, a student of the Avnei Nezer. The manuscript includes novellae in the name of the Avnei Nezer, Rebbe Avraham Borenstein of Sochaczew. [Lodz, 1941].
This manuscript was found in the basement of a destroyed home in the Lodz Ghetto after the Holocaust, by Chanoch Lev, son of the author. Chanoch Lev passed the manuscript on to R. Aharon Yisrael Borenstein, youngest son of the Shem MiShmuel and grandson of the Avnei Nezer, in Tel Aviv, who included some of the novellae in his work "Neot Hadeshe" (Tel Aviv 1974). The story of the manuscript is told in the introduction (p. 13). Other sections of the manuscript are included in "Chiddushei Avnei Nezer al HaShas" and the "Nezer Hatorah" anthologies.
The author composed this manuscript while living in the Lodz Ghetto. In many places he quotes and analyzes the words of his teacher, the Avnei Nezer. The manuscript contains Torah novellae written on the eve of Yom Kippur (Sep. 30 1941), as well as novellae regarding the laws of building a sukkah immediately following Yom Kippur, "in order to go from one mitzvah to another". He ends with a particularly poignant prayer "that G-d give me the strength to once again delve into His holy Torah as in the past. My illness is spreading, and my entire being is a prayer to G-d. Erev Yom Kippur 5702 (1941) during the terrible war. May G-d have mercy on his people and save them from their enemies. Shmuel Menachem ben Sara". The author often signed his name at the end of a chapter: "Shmuel Menachem", "Shmuel Menachem ben Yitzchak", "Shmuel Menachem ben Sara may he be healed from his illness". One of the final pages of the manuscript contains an ethical will from the Sfat Emet, "Given to me by my step-grandfather, R. Avraham Yosef Berman".
80 leaves. 20 cm. High-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Several worn and detached leaves.
Enclosed is an envelope with an inscription handwritten by R. Aharon Borenstein: "Manuscript of Leib of Lodz, who died in the Lodz Ghetto".
This manuscript was found in the basement of a destroyed home in the Lodz Ghetto after the Holocaust, by Chanoch Lev, son of the author. Chanoch Lev passed the manuscript on to R. Aharon Yisrael Borenstein, youngest son of the Shem MiShmuel and grandson of the Avnei Nezer, in Tel Aviv, who included some of the novellae in his work "Neot Hadeshe" (Tel Aviv 1974). The story of the manuscript is told in the introduction (p. 13). Other sections of the manuscript are included in "Chiddushei Avnei Nezer al HaShas" and the "Nezer Hatorah" anthologies.
The author composed this manuscript while living in the Lodz Ghetto. In many places he quotes and analyzes the words of his teacher, the Avnei Nezer. The manuscript contains Torah novellae written on the eve of Yom Kippur (Sep. 30 1941), as well as novellae regarding the laws of building a sukkah immediately following Yom Kippur, "in order to go from one mitzvah to another". He ends with a particularly poignant prayer "that G-d give me the strength to once again delve into His holy Torah as in the past. My illness is spreading, and my entire being is a prayer to G-d. Erev Yom Kippur 5702 (1941) during the terrible war. May G-d have mercy on his people and save them from their enemies. Shmuel Menachem ben Sara". The author often signed his name at the end of a chapter: "Shmuel Menachem", "Shmuel Menachem ben Yitzchak", "Shmuel Menachem ben Sara may he be healed from his illness". One of the final pages of the manuscript contains an ethical will from the Sfat Emet, "Given to me by my step-grandfather, R. Avraham Yosef Berman".
80 leaves. 20 cm. High-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Several worn and detached leaves.
Enclosed is an envelope with an inscription handwritten by R. Aharon Borenstein: "Manuscript of Leib of Lodz, who died in the Lodz Ghetto".
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $400
Sold for: $2,250
Including buyer's premium
Collection of Rabbinical court decisions signed by many rabbis - permission to remarry ("Heter Meah Rabbanim"), given to men whose wives disappeared during the Holocaust and likely perished. Jerusalem, 1946.
Each page contains dozens of handwritten signatures as well as a typewritten description of the testimony given and the court's final ruling [testimonies include horrifying details of selections of women and children in Auschwitz and in Transnistria, Romania]. Some of the documents are incomplete and contain only the final part of the ruling, with the signatures.
The main signatories of each decision were the heads of the respective Batei Din in Jerusalem: R. Zelig Reuven Bengis, R. Pinchas Epstein and R. David Jungreis, heads of the Perushim Beit Din; and R. Yerucham Fishel Bernstein, R. Naftali Zvi Schmerler and R. Yisrael Yitzchak Halevi Reisman, heads of the Chassidic Beit Din.
Among the signatories: R. Meir Chaim Unger, (rabbi of Lackenbach); R. Yosef Adler (rabbi of Torda); R. Mordechai Chaim Slonim (Rebbe of Slonim); R. Yosef Meir Kahana (Rebbe of Spinka); R. Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (Rebbe of Sassov, who was in Jerusalem at the time with his father-in-law, the Satmar Rebbe); R. Shmuel Halevi Wosner, (at that time a rabbi in Jerusalem); R. Avraham Yitzchak Kahn (later the Rebbe of Toldot Aharon); R. Mordechai Goldman (later the Rebbe of Zvill); R. Shalom Safrin (Rebbe of Komarna); R. Gershon Lapidot; R. Yisrael Yaakov Fisher (later head of the Eida Hacharedit); R. Avraham Aharonovitz; R. Asher Zelig Margolis, and others. For a more detailed list of signatories, see the Hebrew description.
7 leaves. Size and condition vary. Stains and wear. Two of the leaves have dampstains and erasures.
Each page contains dozens of handwritten signatures as well as a typewritten description of the testimony given and the court's final ruling [testimonies include horrifying details of selections of women and children in Auschwitz and in Transnistria, Romania]. Some of the documents are incomplete and contain only the final part of the ruling, with the signatures.
The main signatories of each decision were the heads of the respective Batei Din in Jerusalem: R. Zelig Reuven Bengis, R. Pinchas Epstein and R. David Jungreis, heads of the Perushim Beit Din; and R. Yerucham Fishel Bernstein, R. Naftali Zvi Schmerler and R. Yisrael Yitzchak Halevi Reisman, heads of the Chassidic Beit Din.
Among the signatories: R. Meir Chaim Unger, (rabbi of Lackenbach); R. Yosef Adler (rabbi of Torda); R. Mordechai Chaim Slonim (Rebbe of Slonim); R. Yosef Meir Kahana (Rebbe of Spinka); R. Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum (Rebbe of Sassov, who was in Jerusalem at the time with his father-in-law, the Satmar Rebbe); R. Shmuel Halevi Wosner, (at that time a rabbi in Jerusalem); R. Avraham Yitzchak Kahn (later the Rebbe of Toldot Aharon); R. Mordechai Goldman (later the Rebbe of Zvill); R. Shalom Safrin (Rebbe of Komarna); R. Gershon Lapidot; R. Yisrael Yaakov Fisher (later head of the Eida Hacharedit); R. Avraham Aharonovitz; R. Asher Zelig Margolis, and others. For a more detailed list of signatories, see the Hebrew description.
7 leaves. Size and condition vary. Stains and wear. Two of the leaves have dampstains and erasures.
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Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 12, 2017
Opening: $2,000
Unsold
Babylonian Talmud - complete set. Munich-Heidelberg, 1948. "Published by the Union of Rabbis in the American Occupation Zone in Germany".
After WWII, the demand for Talmud and holy books by surviving Jews congregated in the DP camps exceeded the few copies that were available for the refugees. From 1946, the "Union of Rabbis" in Germany, with the assistance of the American army and the JDC began to print the Talmud for survivors. At first, only a few tractates were printed in various formats. In 1948, the present edition - a complete edition of the Talmud - was printed for the first time. Each volume contains two title pages. The first title page was especially designed to commemorate the printing of the Talmud on the scorched soil of Germany; on the upper part is an illustration of a Jewish town with the caption "From slavery to redemption and from darkness to great light"; on the lower part of the title page is an illustration of barbed wire fences and a labor camp, with the captions: "Labor camp in Germany during Nazi era", "They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts" (Psalms 119).
19 volumes. 39 cm. Good condition. Slight staining. Ownership inscriptions and markings in several volumes. Original binding; damage to bindings and spines. Several sections are printed on brittle, lower quality paper.
After WWII, the demand for Talmud and holy books by surviving Jews congregated in the DP camps exceeded the few copies that were available for the refugees. From 1946, the "Union of Rabbis" in Germany, with the assistance of the American army and the JDC began to print the Talmud for survivors. At first, only a few tractates were printed in various formats. In 1948, the present edition - a complete edition of the Talmud - was printed for the first time. Each volume contains two title pages. The first title page was especially designed to commemorate the printing of the Talmud on the scorched soil of Germany; on the upper part is an illustration of a Jewish town with the caption "From slavery to redemption and from darkness to great light"; on the lower part of the title page is an illustration of barbed wire fences and a labor camp, with the captions: "Labor camp in Germany during Nazi era", "They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts" (Psalms 119).
19 volumes. 39 cm. Good condition. Slight staining. Ownership inscriptions and markings in several volumes. Original binding; damage to bindings and spines. Several sections are printed on brittle, lower quality paper.
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