Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov Yeshiva – Jerusalem, 1888 – Signatures of Rabbis and Heads of Society – Rare
Opening: $300
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov yeshiva. Jerusalem: [Y. D. Frumkin, 1888].
Printed booklet, filled out by hand, with signatures and stamps.
Contains statutes of the Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov yeshiva founded in Meah Shearim in honor of R. Meir Auerbach, and letters of recommendation to donate to the yeshiva from many rabbis.
On the verso of the title page appear the signatures in the handwriting of R. Yisrael Yaakov Segal Rabbi of Płońsk, R. Aharon son of R. Yaakov Yehuda Leib Löwy, and R. Menachem Natan Auerbach son of R. Shlomo Rabbi of Luntschitz.
On the final page appear the signatures of the three rabbis mentioned above and additional signatures (mostly from members of the Löwy and Baharan families): R. Avraham Dayan of Przasnysz, R. Mordechai Levi, R. "Avraham Eliezer Levi", R. Avraham Baharan, R. Asher Leizer Löwy, R. Yisrael Chaim, and R. Menachem Mendel son of R. Yehuda David.
Many stamps of R. ""Yitzchak Yosef Chazan (1842-1928), author of "Siach Yitzchak" (Poltava, 1913), son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Płock.
16 pages. 17.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming and open tears, affecting text, repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 634 (printer named after Sh. Halevy).
Rare. To the best of our knowledge, this book has not previously been put up for auction.