Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,188
Including buyer's premium
Varied collection of letters and documents, signed receipts and printed decorated leaves (some in color and gold ink), including letters from Safed rabbis and rulings. Safed, ca. 1876-1928.
• Ruling signed by R. "Moshe son of R. Sh. of Rudnik", R. "Refael son of the late rabbi, dayan and posek" [R. Refael Zilberman] and R. "Yosef Aryeh son of R. Shlomo HaKohen". Safed, Tammuz 1876. • Letter addressed to R. Moshe Grünwald Rabbi of Khust (author of Arugat HaBosem), signed by R. Menachem Mendel son of R. Yitzchak of Deyzh, R. Moshe Deutsch of Reteag and R. Yitzchak Blau. Safed, Kislev 1902. • Letter in calligraphic script, addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore, acknowledging his donation for brides and the infirm, signed by R. Moshe Charag (trustee of the Austrian Kollel). Safed, Kislev 1884. • Receipt from the Austrian Kollel, with the signatures of seven trustees and leaders of the Kollel. Safed, Nissan 1892. • Letter addressed to rabbis in the United States, on behalf of the Bar Yochai yeshiva in Meron and the old age home, with the signatures of 19 community leaders in Safed, including the signature of R. Yaakov Tzvi Bahr, R. Eliezer Bronfeld, R. Yosef Tzvi Geiger (a renowned Safed artist and activist, at the turn of the 20th century). Safed, Shevat 1925. • Letter regarding the Ezrat HaGalil organization of New York, signed by 11 gabbaim of Safed synagogues. Safed, Sivan 1928.
16 paper items. Size and condition vary. Overall good to good-fair condition.
• Ruling signed by R. "Moshe son of R. Sh. of Rudnik", R. "Refael son of the late rabbi, dayan and posek" [R. Refael Zilberman] and R. "Yosef Aryeh son of R. Shlomo HaKohen". Safed, Tammuz 1876. • Letter addressed to R. Moshe Grünwald Rabbi of Khust (author of Arugat HaBosem), signed by R. Menachem Mendel son of R. Yitzchak of Deyzh, R. Moshe Deutsch of Reteag and R. Yitzchak Blau. Safed, Kislev 1902. • Letter in calligraphic script, addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore, acknowledging his donation for brides and the infirm, signed by R. Moshe Charag (trustee of the Austrian Kollel). Safed, Kislev 1884. • Receipt from the Austrian Kollel, with the signatures of seven trustees and leaders of the Kollel. Safed, Nissan 1892. • Letter addressed to rabbis in the United States, on behalf of the Bar Yochai yeshiva in Meron and the old age home, with the signatures of 19 community leaders in Safed, including the signature of R. Yaakov Tzvi Bahr, R. Eliezer Bronfeld, R. Yosef Tzvi Geiger (a renowned Safed artist and activist, at the turn of the 20th century). Safed, Shevat 1925. • Letter regarding the Ezrat HaGalil organization of New York, signed by 11 gabbaim of Safed synagogues. Safed, Sivan 1928.
16 paper items. Size and condition vary. Overall good to good-fair condition.
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Eretz Israel: Jerusalem, Safed and Elsewhere –
Letters, Documents and Books
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Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of letters and manuscripts, mostly handwritten by R. Berish Salz (a rabbi of Safed), and some handwritten by other Safed rabbis. Safed, ca. 1910s-1930s.
The collection includes: • Tena'im for the betrothal of R. Berish son of R. Avraham Salz, to the daughter of R. Yaakov Yitzchak Unger of Safed, in Cheshvan 1911. • Drafts of letters and essays of Torah thoughts, handwritten by R. Berish Salz, including: Draft of a letter to R. Nachum Weidenfeld, author of Chazon Nachum, signed by R. Berish ("servant to worshippers of G-d, Yissachar Berish Salz son of R. Ch.A. Salz, grandson of the Taz"); draft of a letter with his signature, containing an essay on the topic of Matza made from wheat grown in an unpunctured pot, 1930s (he mentions his teacher the Ridvaz, rabbi of Safed, and suggests to give the essay to R. Sh.A. Weber to have it printed in the Kol Torah monthly); transcript of responsa by his teacher, R. Sh.A. Alfandari; collection of "Torah novellae heard from my father", Safed, 1941 (written by another person, possibly the son of R. Berish Salz. Contains a copy of a transcript of a letter sent to R. Y.M. Charlap, dated 13th Tammuz 1941); and other drafts of letters and notes of Torah novellae.
R. Yissachar Berish Salz (1893-1961), a leading Safed rabbi. An outstanding Torah scholar and kabbalist, he devoted his entire life to Torah study, and served as dean and posek in Safed. He came from one of the oldest families of the Safed community. His father was R. Chaim Avraham Salz (descendant of R. David HaLevi, the Taz) and his father-in-law was R. Yaakov Yitzchak Unger (descendant of Rebbe Mordechai David Unger of Dombrowa). He was a close disciple of the Ridvaz (R. Yaakov David Wilowsky, rabbi of Safed) and dean of the latter's yeshiva Bnei Yaakov – Ridvaz in Safed. He was also a close disciple and confidant of R. Sh.A. Alfandari, during the latter's tenure as rabbi of Safed, and served as scribe in his Beit Din (this collection includes responsa from R. Alfandari, who was a Torah scholar of Turkey and the East, arranged and written in Ashkenazic script, presumably that of R. Berish Salz. These responsa are printed in the book Responsa of the Saba Kaddisha). He exchanged halachic and friendly correspondence with R. Tzvi Pesach Frank and other rabbis in Eretz Israel.
55 written leaves. Size and condition vary.
The collection includes: • Tena'im for the betrothal of R. Berish son of R. Avraham Salz, to the daughter of R. Yaakov Yitzchak Unger of Safed, in Cheshvan 1911. • Drafts of letters and essays of Torah thoughts, handwritten by R. Berish Salz, including: Draft of a letter to R. Nachum Weidenfeld, author of Chazon Nachum, signed by R. Berish ("servant to worshippers of G-d, Yissachar Berish Salz son of R. Ch.A. Salz, grandson of the Taz"); draft of a letter with his signature, containing an essay on the topic of Matza made from wheat grown in an unpunctured pot, 1930s (he mentions his teacher the Ridvaz, rabbi of Safed, and suggests to give the essay to R. Sh.A. Weber to have it printed in the Kol Torah monthly); transcript of responsa by his teacher, R. Sh.A. Alfandari; collection of "Torah novellae heard from my father", Safed, 1941 (written by another person, possibly the son of R. Berish Salz. Contains a copy of a transcript of a letter sent to R. Y.M. Charlap, dated 13th Tammuz 1941); and other drafts of letters and notes of Torah novellae.
R. Yissachar Berish Salz (1893-1961), a leading Safed rabbi. An outstanding Torah scholar and kabbalist, he devoted his entire life to Torah study, and served as dean and posek in Safed. He came from one of the oldest families of the Safed community. His father was R. Chaim Avraham Salz (descendant of R. David HaLevi, the Taz) and his father-in-law was R. Yaakov Yitzchak Unger (descendant of Rebbe Mordechai David Unger of Dombrowa). He was a close disciple of the Ridvaz (R. Yaakov David Wilowsky, rabbi of Safed) and dean of the latter's yeshiva Bnei Yaakov – Ridvaz in Safed. He was also a close disciple and confidant of R. Sh.A. Alfandari, during the latter's tenure as rabbi of Safed, and served as scribe in his Beit Din (this collection includes responsa from R. Alfandari, who was a Torah scholar of Turkey and the East, arranged and written in Ashkenazic script, presumably that of R. Berish Salz. These responsa are printed in the book Responsa of the Saba Kaddisha). He exchanged halachic and friendly correspondence with R. Tzvi Pesach Frank and other rabbis in Eretz Israel.
55 written leaves. Size and condition vary.
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Eretz Israel: Jerusalem, Safed and Elsewhere –
Letters, Documents and Books
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Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Two lengthy letters handwritten and signed by R. Nissan Eckstein Rabbi of Kuzhnitza (Kuźnica). Kuzhnitza (Grodno region), Sivan 1929 / Av 1929.
Both letters were sent to his good friend, R. Aharon Kohen (later a dean of the Hebron yeshiva). In the first letter, he congratulates him for his marriage to the daughter of "the outstanding Torah scholar, R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein". The letter continues with three pages of Torah novellae on the Talmudic topics of Hekdesh and Arachin.
In the second letter, dated Sunday of Parashat Re'eh 1929 (the day after the terrible Shabbat of the Hebron massacre, 18th Av 1929), R. Nissan at first continues discussing these topics. In the middle of the third page, he stops recording his Torah thoughts and instead, writes a lamentation poem he composed upon hearing the terrible news of the massacre of the yeshiva students in Hebron.
In the lamentation, he provides a graphic description of the massacre of the holy yeshiva students. He describes how the beautiful sounds of their Torah study were abruptly disrupted, and how their souls, together with the Torah they studied, rose to the Heavens, where our holy forefathers came out of their graves in Me'arat HaMachpela to greet them. He depicts the terrified yeshiva students hiding from the mobs, and highlights the disparity between the lowly murderers and the noble victims, who in their dying moments, while being savagely attacked, attempted to save their friends by shielding them with their own body.
R. Nissan Eckstein (perished in the Holocaust), outstanding Torah scholar, one of the leading young rabbis of Lithuania. He was an associate of R. Shimon Shkop and R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski.
2 letters: [1] double leaf, 20 cm; [1] double leaf, 35 cm (altogether 8 written pages). Condition varies, first letter in good condition, second letter with wear and tears (repaired with tape).
Both letters were sent to his good friend, R. Aharon Kohen (later a dean of the Hebron yeshiva). In the first letter, he congratulates him for his marriage to the daughter of "the outstanding Torah scholar, R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein". The letter continues with three pages of Torah novellae on the Talmudic topics of Hekdesh and Arachin.
In the second letter, dated Sunday of Parashat Re'eh 1929 (the day after the terrible Shabbat of the Hebron massacre, 18th Av 1929), R. Nissan at first continues discussing these topics. In the middle of the third page, he stops recording his Torah thoughts and instead, writes a lamentation poem he composed upon hearing the terrible news of the massacre of the yeshiva students in Hebron.
In the lamentation, he provides a graphic description of the massacre of the holy yeshiva students. He describes how the beautiful sounds of their Torah study were abruptly disrupted, and how their souls, together with the Torah they studied, rose to the Heavens, where our holy forefathers came out of their graves in Me'arat HaMachpela to greet them. He depicts the terrified yeshiva students hiding from the mobs, and highlights the disparity between the lowly murderers and the noble victims, who in their dying moments, while being savagely attacked, attempted to save their friends by shielding them with their own body.
R. Nissan Eckstein (perished in the Holocaust), outstanding Torah scholar, one of the leading young rabbis of Lithuania. He was an associate of R. Shimon Shkop and R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski.
2 letters: [1] double leaf, 20 cm; [1] double leaf, 35 cm (altogether 8 written pages). Condition varies, first letter in good condition, second letter with wear and tears (repaired with tape).
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Eretz Israel: Jerusalem, Safed and Elsewhere –
Letters, Documents and Books
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Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $300
Unsold
Certificate of ordination for a shochet, signed by the shochet and bodek R. Avraham Rom, and by the dayanim of the Beit Din: R. Yosef Gershon Horowitz, R. Eliyahu Rom and R. Avraham David Rosenthal. With several lines handwritten and signed by the head of the Beit Din, R. Tzvi Pesach Frank. Jerusalem, 1941.
Large calligraphic certificate, in black and red ink. The recipient of this ordination is R. Yehoshua Baruch Levy "student of the Torat Emet yeshiva" (Chabad yeshiva), who was tested on his expertise in sharpening and inspecting the knife, slaughtering, and examination of the lungs.
The first signatory on this certificate, the renowned shochet R. Avraham Rom (1903-1963), son of R. Yonah Rom of Birzh, a rabbi of Jerusalem. He was renowned as an expert shochet and outstanding Torah scholar, and many relied on his rulings. Interestingly, after R. Avraham Rom passed away, R. Yosef Shalom Elyashiv stopped eating meat, since he was wary of trusting the rulings of any other shochet.
[1] leaf. 45 cm. Thick card. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases.
Large calligraphic certificate, in black and red ink. The recipient of this ordination is R. Yehoshua Baruch Levy "student of the Torat Emet yeshiva" (Chabad yeshiva), who was tested on his expertise in sharpening and inspecting the knife, slaughtering, and examination of the lungs.
The first signatory on this certificate, the renowned shochet R. Avraham Rom (1903-1963), son of R. Yonah Rom of Birzh, a rabbi of Jerusalem. He was renowned as an expert shochet and outstanding Torah scholar, and many relied on his rulings. Interestingly, after R. Avraham Rom passed away, R. Yosef Shalom Elyashiv stopped eating meat, since he was wary of trusting the rulings of any other shochet.
[1] leaf. 45 cm. Thick card. Good-fair condition. Stains and creases.
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Eretz Israel: Jerusalem, Safed and Elsewhere –
Letters, Documents and Books
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Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
September 15, 2020
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Large handwritten certificate – ordination for a shohet, signed by the Sephardic rabbis of Jerusalem: R. Ovadia Hedaya, R. Salman Hugi Aboudi and R. Ovadia Yosef. Jerusalem, 1968.
Scribal script on a large sheet of paper. Ordination as shochet for R. Moshe son of R. Refael Shraga (descendant of the Or Shraga of Yazd). The ordination is signed by R. Ezra Yair, head of the shochatim in Jerusalem, followed by the signatures of the rabbis of Jerusalem.
[1] double leaf. 41.5 cm. Fair condition. Large, dark dampstains. Folding marks, wear and tears (repaired with tape in several places).
Scribal script on a large sheet of paper. Ordination as shochet for R. Moshe son of R. Refael Shraga (descendant of the Or Shraga of Yazd). The ordination is signed by R. Ezra Yair, head of the shochatim in Jerusalem, followed by the signatures of the rabbis of Jerusalem.
[1] double leaf. 41.5 cm. Fair condition. Large, dark dampstains. Folding marks, wear and tears (repaired with tape in several places).
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Eretz Israel: Jerusalem, Safed and Elsewhere –
Letters, Documents and Books
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