Kuntres Maamarim 5682, along with two one-dollar bills for charity, received from Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Brooklyn, New York: Kehot, 1992. "The Rebbe's ninetieth year".
The booklet, printed at the behest of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the occasion of the yahrzeit of his father-in-law the Rebbe Rayatz on 10th Shevat, contains three Chassidic discourses delivered by the Rayatz in 1921, which had been in manuscript. A portrait of the Rebbe Rayatz is printed at the beginning of the booklet, and facsimiles of the copyist's manuscript and a brief biography of the Rebbe Rayatz are printed at the end.

Inscription on title page and margins of both dollar bills: "From the hand of the Rebbe".

The distribution ceremony of the present booklet and dollars are described in Kovetz LeChizuk HaHitkashrut – 29 (pp. 66-68). On the night of 10th Shevat, 1992, the Rebbe distributed the present booklet along with two dollars for charity. The Rebbe distributed about 7000 booklets over the course of three hours, giving brief blessings. The Farbrengen held afterwards began with the study of a section from the newly distributed booklet.

59, [1] pages. Red wrapper. Approx. 23 cm. Booklet and dollar bills in good condition.

Melechet Machshevet, a philosophical study on the Five Books of the Torah, by R. Moshe Chefetz. Venice: Bragadin, [1710]. First edition.
Complete copy with fine margins, including illustrated half-title with detailed copper engraving, leaf with portrait of the author and leaf with geometric diagrams. Additional diagram on leaf 57. Below the portrait of the author is a rhyme alluding to his age at the time of the printing: "a hundred (Meah) years old", referring to the numerical value of the word "Meah", 46 (some mistakenly took the word literally, believing he was in fact 100 years old; see below).

R. Moshe Chefetz (1664-1711), Italian rabbi, scholar and philosopher. Born in Trieste, he was raised in Venice, where he later disseminated Torah. He possessed wide-ranging knowledge of physics and metaphysics, as attested by his works Melechet Machashevet and Chanukat HaBayit. He composed this book to find solace for the untimely passing of his son R. Gershom, author of Yad Charuzim. R. Moshe died at the young age of 48 on 30 Cheshvan, 1711 (R. Mordechai Ghirondi, Toldot Gedolei Yisrael, Trieste 1853, p. 239). R. Shmuel David Luzzatto (Shadal) quotes a tradition transmitted by Italian Torah scholars, which maintains that the sages of his generation, upon hearing of the text of the caption R. Moshe intended to place beneath his portrait in his book, tried to dissuade him from doing so, warning him that it is not something one can make jest of. He did not heed their warning, and passed away within the year (Igrot Shadal, VII, p. 1013).
On the title page of the book is a signature of R. "Yaakov de Medina" – a Livorno Torah scholar in the time of the Chida (served as Dayan in Livorno alongside R. Yaakov Nunez-Vaez and R. Shem Tov ben Samun).
On the leaves of the book are several glosses (some trimmed) in his handwriting. On p. 96b is a gloss relating to the French conquest granting equal rights: "…we see with our own eyes today the French kingdom, where the government […] everyone, the lowly as the great".

[11], 98 leaves. 30.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains and dark stains. Wear and tears. Several leaves partially detached. Worming in a few places. Original binding, with parchment spine, damaged.

Assorted collection of paper items on concerts, Chazanut performances and festival and high holiday prayers. Eretz Israel, Europe, United States and more [1862-1959]. Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German and Polish.
28 printed items. • Title page (color lithograph) of a booklet of tunes for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur prayers by Yosef Goldstein, head cantor of the Stadttempel of Vienna (Berlin, 1862). • Two entry tickets (one for men and one for women) to the dedication of the Beit Tefillat Yisrael synagogue in Mainz (May 26, 1879). • Eighteen tickets to a Chazanut concert of Yossele Rosenblatt, which was to take place on June 21, 1933; however, Rosenblatt passed away at the age of 51 two days earlier (the tickets are unused). • Ten entry tickets to high holiday prayers in various synagogues in New York, with the participation of famous cantors – Reuven Rosenblit, Anshel Konzak, Shimon Derdik and Leon Kortili. • Ticket to Rosh Hashanah prayers in the Great Synagogue of Warsaw, 1937. • Ticket to festive prayer in the hall of the Meah Shearim yeshiva, with participation of cantor Yisrael Stockhammer, Shabbat Shirah 1948. • Visiting card of cantor Moshe Zuckerman. • Ticket of Yeniköy Synagogue in Istanbul. • Notice on a Chazanut performance by prodigy Manessl Nürnberger of Vilna – Frankfurt 1931. • And more.

28 paper items. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition. Inscriptions, postage stamps and ink stamps on some cards.