Auction 16 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Torah Reinforcement Leaf with Close to 70 Signatures

Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
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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.
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