Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Torah Reinforcement Leaf with Close to 70 Signatures
Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
Including buyer's premium
Leaf with numerous signatures, the following bit of inscription appears on the leaf header"All the regulations detailed in the previous leaf¦ [are meant] to reinforce Torah practice, and they have taken upon themselves to fulfill everything that is mentioned there, and with faith they have signed [this leaf]". [Bialystok? c.1840].
Over 70 signatures, based on the names, it appears that the signatories belonged to a group of Torah scholars in the town of Bialystok and its surroundings dating back to the early 1840's. Featured signatures: Rabbi Gershon¦; Rabbi Menachem Nachum Tsazmir [1806-1886, disciple of the Chatam Sofer, was ABD of Zalishtshik, wandered in several places in the towns of Lithuania and Poland as well]; Rabbi Yechiel Duber Volkovisky [among the noble-men of Bialystok, Rabbi Eliezer Ha-Babli author of the Sefer Ha-Tzava learned at his Beit Midrash for about forty two years]. Rabbi Moshe Eliezer Eisenstadt [apparently the grandfather of Rabbi Dr. Moshe Eliezer Eisenstadt, 1869-1944]; Rabbi Mordechai son of Rabbi Shimon [Rabbi Mordechai Rogoznitzki, who emigrated from Bialystok to Jerusalem and whose name is signed on Kollel documents from Horodna between 1870-1880]; Rabbi David Avraham Kempner [1821-1892, author of Le-Mateh Yehuda, native of Polzk resident of Bialystok; Rabbi Chaim Shaul son of Rabbi Mordechai Pines of Volkovysk and many more names.
2pp. 31cm approx. Fair condition, tears, tear affecting the header's text.
Over 70 signatures, based on the names, it appears that the signatories belonged to a group of Torah scholars in the town of Bialystok and its surroundings dating back to the early 1840's. Featured signatures: Rabbi Gershon¦; Rabbi Menachem Nachum Tsazmir [1806-1886, disciple of the Chatam Sofer, was ABD of Zalishtshik, wandered in several places in the towns of Lithuania and Poland as well]; Rabbi Yechiel Duber Volkovisky [among the noble-men of Bialystok, Rabbi Eliezer Ha-Babli author of the Sefer Ha-Tzava learned at his Beit Midrash for about forty two years]. Rabbi Moshe Eliezer Eisenstadt [apparently the grandfather of Rabbi Dr. Moshe Eliezer Eisenstadt, 1869-1944]; Rabbi Mordechai son of Rabbi Shimon [Rabbi Mordechai Rogoznitzki, who emigrated from Bialystok to Jerusalem and whose name is signed on Kollel documents from Horodna between 1870-1880]; Rabbi David Avraham Kempner [1821-1892, author of Le-Mateh Yehuda, native of Polzk resident of Bialystok; Rabbi Chaim Shaul son of Rabbi Mordechai Pines of Volkovysk and many more names.
2pp. 31cm approx. Fair condition, tears, tear affecting the header's text.
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