Auction 050 Part 1 Satmar: Rebbes and Rabbis of Satmar-Sighet, Hungary and Transylvania
Hakafot According to the Sighet Custom – Collection of Editions
Five editions of the Hakafot service for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah according to the customs of the Rebbes of Sighet – according to the version recited in the Beit Midrash of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum, the Yitav Lev, Av Beit Din of Sighet, and his son Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Teitelbaum, the Kedushat Yom Tov of Sighet:
1. Hakafot service for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, "brought to press by R. Meir Schwartz who attended the Gaon [the Yitav Lev] in his house". Cracow: Yosef Fisher, 1888. Marginal signature to one page: "Avraham Natan Diamantstein".
2. Hakafot service for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, "brought to press by R. Meir Schwartz who attended the Gaon [the Yitav Lev and his son the Kedushat Yom Tov] in his house". Sighet: Avraham Kaufman, 1904.
3-4. Hakafot service for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, with Korbanot service for Yom Shlosh Esreh Midot – "brought to press by… Moshe HaKohen Kahn serving in the house of the Gaon [the Atzei Chaim], Av Beit Din of Sighet, and his partner… R. Zalman Leib HaKohen Schönbrunn of Sighet". Seini: Yaakov Wieder, 1924.
Two variants, with differences in title page. One of the variants has the signature and a few stamps of R. "Shmuel Zanvil Lebowicz – 5695 [1935]"; signature of R. Yissachar Dov Lebowicz on the back cover.
5. Hakafot service for Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, with Korbanot service for Yom Shlosh Esreh Midot – "brought to press by R. Elchanan Chaim Teitelbaum, grandson of the Yismach Moshe" (on the reverse of the title page). No place or date of printing noted. [Germany, 1948].
5 items. Varying size and condition. Good general condition. New bindings.