Collection of letters handwritten and signed by R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin – six letters with interesting contents, from various periods and addressed to various people.
• Letter to the Heichal HaTalmud yeshiva administration, in which R. Zevin suggests delivering a lecture on the commentaries on the Mishnah by R. Meir Simchah HaKohen of Dvinsk, author of Or Sameach, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death. Tel Aviv, Elul 1936.
• Letter to R. Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan) on a team working on editing a book being published by R. Berlin. Tel Aviv, 1935.
• Letter of R. Meir Bar-Ilan on the Union of Russian Refugee Rabbis. Jerusalem, Elul 1948.
• Letter (2 pages) to R. Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel, who had asked him to examine a Yiddish translation of the Talmud. [Jerusalem], 1951.
• Letter to R. Yehudah Leib Levin, Chief Rabbi of Moscow, on transferring his mother Chayah Zevin's remains from her grave in Kiev (where she had been buried 40 years earlier), as the city's cemetery was about to be removed. [Jerusalem], Sivan 1963.
• Lengthy Torah letter to his grandson Nachum [Zevin]. Jerusalem, [Cheshvan] 1964.

R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin (1886-1978), a leading Chabad rabbi in Russia and Eretz Israel. Ordained by the Rogatchover and Rebbe Shemaryahu Noach Schneersohn of Babruysk, he succeeded his father as Rabbi of Kazimirovo and several other communities. He was a prolific writer, editor of the Talmudic Encyclopedia, and a member of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council.

6 letters, all on official stationery. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition.

Assorted collection of letters, signed by rabbis from Syria, Aleppo and Beirut (Lebanon), ca. early 20th century.
Some of the letters included in the collection:
• Letter of the Or Torah committee in Aleppo to Dr. Moshe Gaster of England, signed by the community rabbis: R. Chaim son of Shlomo Nechmad, R. Yehudah Dweck HaKohen, R. Chaim son of Ezra Tawil, R. Ezra Yosef Shayo, R. Reuven Ancona, R. Yaakov Daknish HaKohen, and the secretary of the committee R. Meir Sason Ajami. [Aleppo, ca. 1920s].
• Copying of letter sent by the Chacham Bashi R. Moshe HaLevi, signed by: R. Shaul Katzin, R. Avraham Ades and R. Yitzchak Shrim. [Ca. 1908].
• Letter of R. Aharon Moshe Yedid HaLevi, Rabbi of Beirut. Sivan 1909.
• Several letters from rabbis of Beirut (Lebanon): R. Shabtai Bohbot, R. Shlomo Tajer and R. Bentzion Lichtman.
• Letter from R. Ezra Yitzchak Chamawi.
• Letters from R. Moshe Sofer, director of the Torah school in Beirut.

12 letters. Varying size. Good condition.

"Teachings of our master… teaching the people of G-d the path to follow", bound manuscript (Chabad "Bichel"). [1815]. Hand-Illustrated title page.

Early copying of some 30 letters, discourses and Chasidic homilies by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Alter Rebbe. This copying was made approximately two years after the Alter Rebbe passed away (on 24th Tevet, 1812). When compared with printed versions of the writings of the Baal HaTanya, the essays in the present manuscript contain many additions, omissions and textual variants.

At the beginning of the manuscript, Mahadura Kama of Igeret HaTeshuvah, a part of the Tanya (this version was unknown to the editors of the Mahadura Kama of the Tanya, Brooklyn, 1982), followed by two letters written by the Baal HaTanya after his release from prison in St. Petersburg (letters 2 and 4 of Igeret HaKodesh in the Tanya; letters 73 and 37 of his Igrot Kodesh). At the end of one of these letters appears a copying of the Alter Rebbe's signature, reading: "Shneur Zalman son of R. Baruch".
The present manuscript contains 25 homilies delivered by the Alter Rebbe during the 1790s-1800s, both in Liadi and in Liozna. Towards the end of the Bichel (p. 61b) is a copying of two additional letters written by the Alter Rebbe in 1803 (letters 30 and 1 of Igeret HaKodesh in the Tanya, letters 84 and 82 of his Igrot Kodesh).
On p. 61a, copying of a discourse by the Maggid of Mezeritch (Maggid Devarav LeYaakov, 2005 edition, no. 83, p. 30). To the best of our knowledge and research, the discourse "Lehavin Inyan Nefesh VeRuach", appearing in the present manuscript in leaves 59a-61b, has never been printed.
Some forty blank leaves of a later period are bound at the end of the manuscript, after leaf 64. On the first page is a copying in a different hand of a discourse by the Mitteler Rebbe (Maamarei Admor HaEmtza'i of Lubavitch, IX, p. 1589). The last two pages contain an index of the discourses and letters copied in the manuscript.

Ownership inscriptions and birth records from ca. 1820s-1830s inscribed on last page. Stamp of the "Bikur Cholim Hospital" in Jerusalem.

[1], 2-64 leaves (two columns per page on about half of leaves) + [40] blank leaves (on first page, copying of the discourse by the Mitteler Rebbe; and on last leaves, index and ownership inscriptions). Leaf 55 torn and mostly lacking. 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains. Creases and light wear. Large marginal open tears to title page, repaired with paper, affecting illustrated frame. Tears from ink erosion, affecting frame of title page and text in some places. Worming, affecting text. Stamps. New binding, slightly worn.

Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, EE.011.007.