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![Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov. Brooklyn, New York, "Thursday Shlach" [24th Sivan] 1985.](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale105/157.jpg "Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov – Sivan, 1985 – Blessings f")
Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,125
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Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov. Brooklyn, New York, "Thursday Shlach" [24th Sivan] 1985.
Scribal writing, with several words handwritten and signed by the Rebbe.
Addressed to his relative R. Elazar Menachem Shapiro who had sent a kvittel and pidyon. The Rebbe blesses him with perfect health, success and divine assistance in all his affairs, and he blesses his wife with an easy pregnancy and to raise their son easily and with satisfaction.
In the conclusion, the Rebbe added about three lines in his own handwriting including blessings for his wife and satisfaction from their children, concluding with his signature.
Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov (1907-2000), the Divrei Shlomo, prominent rebbe in recent times. Son of Rebbe Bentzion Halberstam, the Kedushat Tzion (son of the first Rebbe of Bobov, Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam, grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz). In 1931, his father moved from Bobov to Trzebinia, and appointed him as rabbi in his place in Bobov. Rebbe Shlomo assisted his father in directing the dozens of branches of the large network of yeshivas "Etz Chaim – Bobov" in Galicia. After the Holocaust, he reached the United States where he re-established Bobov Chassidut, founding communities, yeshivas and Torah institutions in the United States and worldwide.
[1] leaf. Official stationery. 26.5 cm. Good condition. Light stains, folding marks and filing holes.
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![Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov. Brooklyn, New York, "Thursday Bereshit" [24th Tishrei] 1](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale105/158.jpg "Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov – Tishrei, 1989 – Blessings")
Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $300
Sold for: $750
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Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov. Brooklyn, New York, "Thursday Bereshit" [24th Tishrei] 1989.
Scribal writing, with the Rebbe's signature (in blue ink).
Addressed to his relative R. Elazar Menachem Shapiro who had sent a kvittel and pidyon. The Rebbe blesses him with perfect health, success and divine assistance in all his affairs, and to raise their son easily, with satisfaction and comfort.
Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov (1907-2000), the Divrei Shlomo, prominent rebbe in recent times. Son of Rebbe Bentzion Halberstam, the Kedushat Tzion (son of the first Rebbe of Bobov, Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam, grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz). In 1931, his father moved from Bobov to Trzebinia, and appointed him as rabbi in his place in Bobov. Rebbe Shlomo assisted his father in directing the dozens of branches of the large network of yeshivas "Etz Chaim – Bobov" in Galicia. After the Holocaust, he reached the United States where he re-established Bobov Chassidut, founding communities, yeshivas and Torah institutions in the United States and worldwide.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and filing holes.
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Letters – Chassidut
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![Delivery Note, signed by Rebbe Yaakov Leiser (Yankele) of Pshevorsk. London-Antwerp, May [Sivan] 1980. English.
Delivery](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale105/159.jpg "Chair of Elijah – Document Signed by Rebbe Yaakov Leiser of Pshevorsk")
Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
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Sold for: $625
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Delivery Note, signed by Rebbe Yaakov Leiser (Yankele) of Pshevorsk. London-Antwerp, May [Sivan] 1980. English.
Delivery note of the Furnolin Company of London, confirming receipt of a Chair of Elijah sent to the Rebbe's Beit Midrash in Antwerp. On the edges of the leaf appears the Rebbe's signature in Latin characters: "Leiser", next to the date of receipt.
This Chair of Elijah serves to this day as the seat for the sandak during circumcisions held in the Beit Midrash in Antwerp.
Rebbe Yaakov Leiser (Reb Yankele) of Pshevorsk (1906-1999), second rebbe of the Pshevorsk dynasty, disciple of the yeshiva of R. David Tevele of Dukla (the Shefa Chaim of Sanz-Klausenburg studied there with him simultaneously). He was intimately close with his teacher, Rebbe Chanah Halberstam of Kolshitz, a fact he requested to have engraved on his tombstone.
Between 1931-196 he served as Rabbi of Jaśliska, later following his father-in-law Rebbe Itzikel of Pshevorsk and accompanying him on all his journeys. During the Holocaust they were sent to the Siberian wilderness. After the war he served as a dayan on agunah issues. In 1977 he was appointed rebbe, succeeding his father-in-law in Antwerp, Belgium. He was an extraordinary Torah scholar with wide-ranging knowledge, a lover of the Jewish people whose blessings brought salvation to many. He was a teller of Chassidic tales, which he transmitted carefully without addition or omission.
[1] leaf. Approx. 25 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Creases and minor tears.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $300
Sold for: Unsold
Large collection of over fifty printed Shanah Tovah cards from rabbis, rebbes and their families. Some include handwritten additions. Eretz Israel, United States and elsewhere, ca. 1950s-1990s.
Shanah Tovah cards from R. Shmuel HaLevi Wosner (at various times); R. David Sperber Rabbi of Brașov; R. Yitzchak Weiss Rabbi of Manchester (the Minchat Yitzchak); R. Avraham Shlomo Katz, Rabbi of Riskeve and Kiryat Yoel, Bnei Brak; R. Avraham David Horowitz, Strasbourg; Rebbe Chaim Mordechai Rosenbaum of Nadvorna-Bnei Brak; Rebbe Meir Kahana of Spinka-Jerusalem; Rebbe Nachman Kahana of Spinka-Bnei Brak; Rebbe Meshulam Zusha Twersky of Chernobyl-Bnei Brak; Rebbe Yissachar Berish Eichenstein of Zidichov-Petach Tikva; R. Natan Eichenstein of Tel Aviv; Rebbetzin Brachah Eichenstein of Tel Aviv; Rebbe Asher Mordechai Rosenbaum of Strozhnitz-United States; R. Yehoshua Segal Deutsch, Rabbi of Katamon, Jerusalem; R. Yaakov Shemariah Deutsch, rabbi of the Chatam Sofer community of Petach Tikva; R. Moshe Natan Schick, Budapest; R. Yechiel Michel Shlager, Rabbi of Bukachivtsi and a rabbi in Budapest; R. Avraham Tzvi Weiss Rabbi of Neve Achiezer, Bnei Brak; R. Asher HaLevi Pollak, Kfar Ata; R. Yosef Yehoshua Gross, the Rabbi of Carei, Bnei Brak; R. Eliezer Mordechai Efraim Fishel-Sofer, rabbi of the Pupa Kehillot Yaakov community, Jerusalem; Rebbe Eliezer Hager of Seret-Vizhnitz-Haifa; Rebbe Asher Yeshayah HaLevi Rottenberg of Koson; Rebbe Mordechai David Teitelbaum of Hussakov-Beersheba; and others.
44 printed cards. Varying size. Overall good condition. Some with handwritten inscriptions.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $4,000
Including buyer's premium
Huge collection of over 360 letters from rabbis and emissaries, tzedakah collectors and philanthropists from around the world: Europe, Russia (including from the northernmost Jewish communities in Siberia, Lapland, Finland and elsewhere), the United States and Canada, England and South Africa, and various other countries. [Ca. 1880s-1910s].
Most of the letters in the present collection were addressed to R. Shmuel Salant, Rabbi of Jerusalem, and the Vaad HaKlali in Jerusalem. Some are also addressed to other rabbis who assisted him in administrating the city's tzedakah funds: R. Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim (the Aderet); R. Yitzchak Blazer, the Rabbi of St. Petersburg; R. Chaim Berlin, the Rabbi of Moscow; R. Dov Ber Abramowitz, and other rabbis and Torah scholars of the Vaad HaKlali and other institutions in the city.
R. Shmuel Salant (1816-1909), immigrated from Salant to Eretz Israel in 1841 to serve as posek and rabbi of the Perushim community of disciples of the Vilna Gaon in Jerusalem. His father-in-law R. Yosef Zundel Salant immigrated to Jerusalem in the same period.
In his capacity as rabbi of Jerusalem, a position he held for close to seventy years, he founded the educational and charitable institutions in the city, established the Beit Din and strengthened the Ashkenazi community. He was renowned for his brilliance and pragmatic approach to halachic ruling and in running communal matters in Jerusalem and worldwide.
Over 360 letters. Varying size and condition. The collection has not been thoroughly examined, and is being sold as is.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,250
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Manuscript, records and memories handwritten and signed by R. Yechezkel Zwebner, grandson of R. Avraham Shag Rabbi of Kobersdorf. Jerusalem, ca. 1877-1880.
Inside front cover, ownership inscription on purchase of the notebook in 1877. The notebook includes various financial accounts of sums received, debts and deposits (some relating to the building of the Mea Shearim neighborhood in those years), and lists of addresses of rabbis and philanthropists outside of Eretz Israel. The notebook mentions the names of well-known rabbis and activists from Jerusalem and outside of Eretz Israel.
On leaf 7, he wrote family inscriptions with dates of events in his and his family's life
R. Yechezkel Shag-Zwebner (1857-1944), son of R. Yehudah Leib son of R. Avraham Shag-Zwebner Rabbi of Kobersdorf, a Torah scholar of Jerusalem, activist and public figure, administrator of the Hungarian kollel and a founder of the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem and the Petach Tikva moshava.
[28] written pages (numbering interrupted on some pages). 14.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, wear and creases. Original binding.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,375
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Group of three letters relating to the Yoshvei Yaavetz yeshiva, established in Jerusalem to support Torah scholars and learners from Hungary. Jerusalem, Av 1905:
• Large double leaf, with letter from yeshiva administration to donors, signed by yeshiva deans: R. Meir Yitzchak Friedman, R. Yosef Tzvi Wissenstern and R. Avraham Aharon HaLevi Prager; a letter (5 lines) handwritten and signed by R. Moshe Nachum Wallenstein, head of the Jerusalem Beit Din; letter (3 lines) handwritten and signed by R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld; letter (7 lines) with signatures and stamps of the Chassidic Beit Din in Jerusalem.
• Handwritten leaf with signatures of ten chairmen of the yeshiva committee, with handwritten and signed assent by R. Yosef Tzvi Wissenstern.
• Double leaf (4 written leaves), with a draft of yeshiva statutes.
3 items. Varying size and condition.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,188
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Kosher certification for sale of etrogim of Eretz Israel grown in Petach Tikva, with full signature of R. Moshe Yosef Hoffman, the Dayan of Pupa. Jerusalem, 5th Av 1914.
Handwritten kosher certification for sale of etrogim of R. Chaim Avraham Zwebner, from farmers in Petach Tikva, whom he praises as a G-d-fearing and reliable individuals.
R. Moshe Yosef Hoffman, "the Dayan of Pupa" (1843-1928), was a leading Torah scholar of Hungary and Jerusalem. He was born in Szerdahely (Dunajská Streda) in 1843 to his father R. Michael Hoffman, a disciple of the Chatam Sofer. He was a disciple of R. Yehudah Aszod, and later studied under the Ktav Sofer. He was appointed dayan and posek of Pupa (Pápa) in 1882. In 1909 he immigrated to Jerusalem, where he established his Beit Midrash (known to this day as that of the Dayan of Pupa). He was one of the foremost authorities in Jerusalem, and was renowned as a wonderworker whose blessings were fulfilled. His famous disciples include R. Shabtai Sheftel Weiss, Rabbi of Nagysimonyi, and R. Yehoshua Buxbaum, Rabbi of Galanta. R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rabbi of Jerusalem, also considered him one of his teachers. His books include Mei Be'er and Mayim Chaim.
The recipient of the certification, R. Chaim Avraham Shag-Zwebner (1883-1959), son of R. Yechezkel Shag-Zwebner and grandson of R. Avraham Shag Rabbi of Kobersdorf. Served in many organizations, including as president of the Religious Council, administrator of the school for the blind and Bikur Cholim, and a founder of the Achva secret society and president of its highest Jerusalem lodge, a founder of Mizrachi in Eretz Israel and a member of the first Knesset.
[1] leaf. 14.5X23 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear and minor tears. Filing holes.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,375
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"Informing the Jewish community of Eretz Israel" – draft handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook of a printed poster he published, regarding the elections to the Assembly of Representatives. Jerusalem, [Nisan 1920].
With deletions and changes handwritten by R. Kook. The draft is worded somewhat differently than the final version published at the time in the newspapers and printed posters – see enclosed material. For example, the concluding line with blessings is worded differently in the draft, while the final version is written on the margins of the page.
This poster was written after a gathering of the rabbis of Eretz Israel in Nisan 1920, discussing women's suffrage, which decided that women's participation in elections is inconsistent with Jewish tradition and attitudes.
[1] leaf, 29 cm. Official stationery, written on both sides. Good-fair condition. Minor tears and wear. Filing holes.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $800
Sold for: $2,750
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Huge assorted collection of over 240 documents from the archive of the Vaad HaKlali in Jerusalem: letters, certificates, receipts, commitments, payment authorizations, lists of beneficiaries, notes and various paper items. Most written on official stationeries of the kollels and Torah and charitable institutions of Jerusalem, with official stamps, and signatures of kollel officials. Jerusalem, ca. 1890s-1940s.
A rare window into the halukka system's distribution of funds, and the support and economic and organizational activity of kollels and public institutions in Jerusalem, documenting many individuals from the Ashkenazic Old Yishuv. The items include, for example, instructions to pay kollel members who won funding from Montefiore's funds, administrated by the Vaad HaKlali; instructions for payments for urgent matters such as sickness; signed commitments to repay loans from future halukka funds, including signed notes from officials who took loans from the Vaad HaKlali during World War I, committing to repay them within three months of the end of the war.
These include signatures by administrators of Torah and charitable institutions in Jerusalem; officials of the Vaad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael; officials of the kollels Shomrei HaChomot; Galicia; Warsaw Ezrat Yisrael; Volhynia, Ukraine and Zhitomir; Belarus, Grodno and Chabad; Slonim, Karlin, Pinsk and Koidanov; Vizhnitz and Kosov; Romania, Bucharest, Maramureș, Moldova, Wallachia and Bessarabia; Bukovina; and America.
See Hebrew description for a list of individuals whose signatures appear in the present collection.
Approx. 250 paper items. Varying size and condition.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $6,250
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Large collection of over 150 letters and reports signed by rabbis, tzedakah collectors and various donors, addressed to Kollel Shomrei HaChomot – the Hungarian kollel. Hungary and Transylvania, and various countries, most ca. 1920s-1930s (a few earlier or later).
The rabbis whose signatures appear in the present collection include: • R. Yosef Elimelech Kahana, Rabbi of Ungvár (Uzhhorod) and president of the kollel. • R. Yeshayah Kleinman, dayan and posek of Kövesd, Kerestir and Satmar (nephew of R. Yeshayale of Kerestir). • R. Shmuel Zanvil Kahana-Fränkel, president of the Orthodox Bureau in Budapest. • R. Meir Chaim Ungar, Rabbi of Lackenbach (and after the Holocaust in Jerusalem). • R. Tzvi HaKohen Dick, head of the Ujhel Beit Din. • R. Yisrael Hillel Yitzchak HaKohen Steiner, Rabbi of Ilok. • R. Yerachmiel Katzburg, Rabbi of Ózd. • R. Peretz Tuviah Stein, Rabbi of Diósgyőr. • R. Nechemiah Weinberger, preacher in Marghita (with stamp of his grandfather, R. Yehoshua Aharon Tzvi Weinberger, Rabbi of Marghita). • Rebbe Yitzchak Mayer (the third) of Kalisz, author of Gedolim Tzaddikim (apparently perished in Holocaust, of the Premishlan dynasty, served as Rabbi of Magdeburg in 1930). • R. Yom Tov Lipa Goldman, dayan in Deutschkreutz. • R. Shmuel David Reinitz, posek in Tornaľa. • R. Yitzchak Shlomo Bruck of Ungvár (Uzhhorod), author of Sedei Besamim (3 letters). • R. Moshe Chaim Grünfeld, Rabbi of Sajószentpéter (perished in Holocaust, 1944). • R. Shmuel Segal Austerlitz, Rabbi of Miskolc (served as Chief Rabbi of Miskolc from 1914, d. 1939). • R. Moshe Yaakov Beck, Rabbi of Alsóapsa (Nyzhnya Apsha), head of the Sighet Beit Din after the Holocaust and rabbi in the Ahavat Torah community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. • R. Tzvi Hirsch HaKohen Kahn, Rabbi of Derecske (d. 1971). • And others.
Over 150 letters, postcards and paper items. Some on official stationery. Varying size and condition. Some with open tears and singeing (saved from fire), affecting text.
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Letters – Chassidut
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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Jan 27, 2026
Opening: $700
Sold for: $1,750
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Large assorted collection of about 80 letters, drafts and documents – from the archive of the scribe and secretary of the Munkacs kollel in Jerusalem, R. Menachem Bentzion Shapiro, author of Or Shivat HaYamim. Jerusalem and Munkacs, ca. 1920s-1940s.
A rare and extensive historical documentation of the Tiferet Tzvi kollel of the Munkacs community in Jerusalem in the 1920s-1940s. The collection includes letters sent to the Minchat Elazar of Munkacs and the directors of the kollel in Munkacs, lists of beneficiaries, authorizations, receipts, contracts and various documents, most written on the kollel's official stationery – representing the kollel's administration in Eretz Israel, appointment of officials, disputes and disagreements, distribution of funds, building of Batei Munkacs and other topics.
The collection also includes many letters from the Shapiro family (including his son, R. David Shapiro, author of Bnei Tzion, and his brother-in-law R. Yitzchak Frankel of Khust, a member of the Jerusalem Beit Din), addressed to and from Munkacs and Jerusalem.
See Hebrew description for a detailed list of the contents of the collection.
80 paper items. Varying size and condition. Overall good to fair condition. Some items in poor condition, with large dampstains affecting text, and open tears affecting text.
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Letters – Chassidut
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