Auction 96 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Books Printed in Jerusalem, Letters and Manuscripts
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Mevaseret Tzion, supplement to volume 14, issue 11 of HaChavatzelet, Tevet 1884. Jerusalem: Yisrael Dov Frumkin (publisher of HaChavatzelet), 1884.
Supplement to HaChavatzelet newspaper, published monthly, news on current events in Eretz Israel. Four booklets were published in total: the supplement to issue 11 (the present item) and issues 15, 34 and 40.
[1], 32 pages. With printed front wrapper, but without back wrapper containing contents and an advertisement. 20.5 cm. Fair condition. Especially dry and brittle paper. Some stains. Tears, including open tears to margins of wrapper and many other leaves. Detached leaves and gatherings. New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 458 (one of four).
Mishlei Sharh, in Judeo-Arabic, translated by Meir Sason Sofer in Syria. Jerusalem: Agan, 1884.
Arabic translation (in Hebrew script) to the book of Mishlei.
20 leaves. 18.5 cm. Dry, somewhat brittle paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Small tears to several leaves, partially repaired with paper filling. Faded ink on one leaf. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 460.
Commentaries on Tehillim by Yaavetz, R. Meir Arama and R. Ovadiah Seforno. Edited by R. Tzvi Hirsch HaKohen. Jerusalem: Yitzchak son of Tzvi Gościnny, [1884]. Date on title page given as 1885.
Partial copy, containing only first two leaves.
2 leaves. 25 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Many tears, including open tears, affecting title frame and text, repaired with paper filling. New leather binding.
Printing of this book was interrupted before completion. The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (entry 000305840) records 12 leaves, while Sh. Halevy records 6. The present copy contains only the first 2 leaves, containing the approbations and the (incomplete) preface by the publisher.
Sh. Halevy, no. 443.
Benei Yitzchak, homilies for various occasions by R. Yitzchak Akshoti, with Kol Shachal, additional homilies, selections and novellae on the Talmud by his younger brother R. Shabtai Akshoti. Jerusalem: Moshe Peretz and brothers Avraham and Yitzchak Gagin, with Shmuel HaLevi Zuckerman, [1884]. Divisional title page for Kol Shachal.
On the top of the page is a dedication handwritten and signed by the author of Kol Shachal and publisher, R. Shabtai Akshoti, gifting it to Moshe Sapir.
At the beginning of Kol Shachal is a lengthy and highly interesting introduction by the author of the book and publisher of both books, R. Shabtai Akshoti, telling of his life events before immigrating to Eretz Israel in 1870.
Both books in one volume. Benei Yischak: [3], 135, [2] leaves. Kol Shachal: [2], 69, [2] leaves. Approx. 36 cm. Dry paper. Most leaves in good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. Marginal worming to some leaves. Old binding, with leather spine. Wear, damage and worming to binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 445, 446.
Zecher Olam, letter by Rivkah Lipa daughter of R. Moshe Meishel Luria, sent to her family. Jerusalem: Yitzchak Gościnny, 1884. Second edition, Hebrew and Yiddish.
The booklet contains a letter written by Rivkah Lipa to her sons and brother in Cracow (as she goes on to note, some of them had immigrated to the United States and other countries), stressing her illustrious parentage, her trials and tribulations in Eretz Israel and her visits to gravesites of Tzaddikim in Eretz Israel, with encouragement to keep the Torah and mitzvot.
On the last leaf the author thanks R. Chaim Berlin and his wife, R. Zalman Levin and his wife, and many of her family members.
On the front title page is a handwritten dedication by the author, in Yiddish, with her signature: "from me, Rivkah Lipa daughter of R. [---] [Mei]shel Luria…". The dedication is incomplete due to tears on the leaf.
[1], 14, [1] leaves. Leaves bound out of sequence. Leaves 13-14 bound after leaf 8, and leaves 9-10 bound after leaf 12. 19.5 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Fair condition. Stains. Many tears, and open tears around margins of all leaves, affecting text to several leaves, including title page and endpaper (containing dedication), restored with paper filling (the entire book has been professionally restored). New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 450.
Printed booklet, Kol MeHeichal, polemic against the people of the New Yishuv who opposed the Halukka system of charity distribution in Eretz Israel. [Jerusalem: Yoel Moshe Salomon, 1885]. Printed without title page.
The booklet contains the printed signatures of about eighty leaders of the Ashkenazi Perushim and Chassidic communities.
The author of the booklet is apparently the famous traveler R. Yaakov Sapir. The author describes the economic contributions of the Old Yishuv in contrast to the passivity of the new settlers, and goes on to describe the strain on the Halukka donations in Jerusalem as a result of refugees from the pogroms in Russia and Romania in 1881.
This booklet raised much interest in its time, and was the Old Yishuv's official response to the polemic against the Halukka institutions.
8 pages. 20.5 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Fair condition. Many stains. Wear. Many tears, including open tears, partially repaired with tape. Old binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 529 (who calls this "an especially rare booklet").
Recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book project based on a photocopy.
![El Cuento Maravioso [Marvelous Tale], anthology of stories in Ladino. Jerusalem: Shmuel HaLevi Zuckerman and partners, [1886]](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale96/214_2.jpg "El Cuento Maravioso – Anthology of Stories in Ladino – Jerusalem, 1886")
![El Cuento Maravioso [Marvelous Tale], anthology of stories in Ladino. Jerusalem: Shmuel HaLevi Zuckerman and partners, [1886]](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale96/214_1.jpg "El Cuento Maravioso – Anthology of Stories in Ladino – Jerusalem, 1886")
El Cuento Maravioso [Marvelous Tale], anthology of stories in Ladino. Jerusalem: Shmuel HaLevi Zuckerman and partners, [1886]. Two parts in two volumes.
Anthology of wondrous and ancient tales in Ladino, in two parts.
Two volumes. Volume I: 320 pages. Volume II: 184 pages. Approx. 16 cm. Dry, brittle paper in first volume. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear. Tears, including tears to title page, and a large open tear to one leaf in volume II, affecting text, partially repaired with paper filling. Worming, affecting text. New bindings (non-uniform).
Sh. Halevy, no. 562.
![Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, with Shetilei Zeitim commentary, by R. David Mizrachi of Sanaa. Jerusalem: [Hirschenson – HaTzvi]](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale96/215.jpg "Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim – With Shetilei Zeitim Commentary – Jerusal")
Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, with Shetilei Zeitim commentary, by R. David Mizrachi of Sanaa. Jerusalem: [Hirschenson – HaTzvi], 1886-1895.
Commentary on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, with main text and some glosses of the Rama. The author writes that he omitted glosses of the Rama that contradict the Shulchan Aruch as well as those with customs not prevalent in Yemen, although the printers added the glosses omitted by the author. The book includes two works by R. Yaakov Mordechai Hirschenson, Mei Be'er (incorporated into Be'er HaGolah) and Einot Mayim, until section 392, when the printing was interrupted in 1886.
[6], 97; 198, [1]; 156, [1] leaves. 25 cm. Dry paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, including small marginal tears to title page and open tears to last leaf, affecting text, repaired with paper filling. Worming, affecting text. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 565.
Letter to the American philanthropist R. Dov Manischewitz and his wife Nesha, regarding the donations collected from the United States for the poor of Jerusalem, with the signatures and stamps of the Jerusalem Torah scholars and heads of the Vaad HaKlali, appointees of the kollels. Jerusalem, Kislev 1904.
Ten signatories: R. "Yitzchak Blazer" [the Rabbi of St. Petersburg, disciple of R. Yisrael Salanter]; R. Menachem Mendel Rabin [head of the Chassidic settlement in Jerusalem, son of R. Shmuel Aharon, Rabbi of Korczyna, author of Masa Meiron]; R. Elimelech Perlman [an important activist and leader of the Chassidic community of Jerusalem, son of R. Yisrael Isser Perlman, Rabbi of Rozwadów and son-in-law of R. Baruch Binyamin Ze'ev Wolf Weinstock, the first Chassidic dayan in Jerusalem]; R. Eliyahu Ze'ev Wolfsohn; R. Gedaliah Nachman Broder; R. Asher Dov Sussman; R. Yitzchak Eliezer Charlap; R. Moshe Ze'ev Silberman; R. Meir Adler [son-in-law of Rebbe Elazar Mendel Bidermann of Lelov]; and R. "Dov Ber Abramowitz – secretary" [a rabbi of St. Louis, United States, and a head of the Vaad HaKlali in Eretz Israel and the United States].
In the margins of the signatures is a letter with the signatures of the rabbis of the city, R. Shmuel Salant and R. Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim (the Aderet): "We too greet you and bless you with success and sign with a blessing".
R. Yitzchak Blazer – known as R. Itzele Peterburger (1837-1907), prominent disciple of R. Yisrael Salanter, and disseminator of the Musar movement in the Lithuanian yeshivas. Leading Torah scholar of his times, a Musar personality known for his holiness. At the instruction of R. Salanter he began to serve as Rabbi of St. Petersburg in 1862; in 1878 he resigned and moved to Kovno, and headed the Kovno Kollel starting in 1880. Later he also resigned from this position in order to continue his service of God as a private individual. During all of these periods, he would deliver Musar sermons in the Knesset Yisrael yeshiva in Slabodka, near Kovno. In 1902 he began preparing to immigrate to Eretz Israel, to which end he sold his house and property in Kovno, finally arriving in Eretz Israel in 1904. At his arrival in Jaffa, he was received in a ceremony attended by many leading Jerusalem rabbis. During this period R. Itzele directed the Vilna Kollel in Jerusalem and headed the Vaad HaKlali of charitable institutions in Jerusalem. Author of Responsa Pri Yitzchak in two parts.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 28 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark dampstains. Wear and folds. Repaired with paper on verso.
Huge collection of over 200 letters from rabbis, gabba'im and philanthropists from all over the world: United States, Europe, South Africa, and various other countries. [Ca. 1890s-1900s].
The letters were sent to R. Shmuel Salant, Rabbi of Jerusalem. Some are also addressed to the other rabbis who assisted him in administering the city's tzedakah funds: R. Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim (the Aderet); R. Yitzchak Blazer of St. Petersburg; R. Chaim Berlin of Moscow; and other rabbis and gabba'im from the Vaad HaKlali and additional 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 practical approach to halachic ruling and in running communal matters in Jerusalem and worldwide.
Over 200 letters. Size and condition varies.
Large collection of letters and documents, halachic decisions, receipts and additional papers, from the estate of R. Shalom Yosef Alshich, head of the Yemenite Beit Din in Israel, including letters and documents signed by him and sent to him, including many signatures of Yemenite rabbis in Jerusalem.
The Yemenite rabbis and community leaders whose signatures appear on documents in the collection include: R. Avraham Chaim Nadaf, R. Shalom Yosef Iraqi, Chaim son of David Jamal, Yehudah son of Avraham Shalom Chabshush, R. Yosef Chiya HaLevi Alshich, and others.
This lot includes a halachic decision from 1901 signed by R. Yosef Nisim Burla (1828-1903, head of the Sephardic Beit Din in Jerusalem) and R. Vidal Chanoch Angel (dayan and head of the Beit Din, head of the Beit El kabbalistic yeshiva, d. 1907); and a record of testimony from 1930 signed by the witness "Amram Aburbeh" (1892-1967; dayan in Jerusalem and Chief Rabbi of Petach Tikva; author of Netivei Am books).
Also includes: Various visiting cards of R. Shalom Yosef Alshich and Shanah Tovah cards, invitations and printed items of the Yemenite Community Committee, and more.
R. Shalom son of Yosef HaLevi Alshich (1859-1944), a prominent kabbalist and head of the Yemenite Beit Din of Jerusalem and Chief Rabbi of the Yemenite community. Born in Sanaa, Yemen, he was a disciple of R. Chaim Korach and R. Yichya Badichi. He immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he strengthened Yemenite institutions in Jerusalem. He taught at the kabbalistic yeshivas Beit El and Rechovot HaNahar. He wrote commentaries on Yemenite piyyutim and himself composed many piyyutim expressing the Jewish longing to return to Eretz Israel.
Over 50 items, including 27 signed letters and documents. Varying size. Most in overall good condition.
Assorted collection of letters, emissary letters and letters to philanthropists, and letters on various matters and documents, from Sephardic rabbis and Torah scholars from Jerusalem. Jerusalem, ca. 1880s-1930s:
• Emissary letter from the Beit El kabbalistic yeshiva for the emissary R. Moshe Ben-Shushan, signed by the yeshiva deans – R. Shalom Hedaya, R. Naftali Baruch, R. Yeshuah Ben-Shushan and R. Avraham Azriel. [Jerusalem, ca. 1930s].
• Letter to R. Refael Tzarfati and the philanthropist Yachya Amoyal, requesting assistance for the Beit El kabbalistic yeshiva, signed by the yeshiva deans – R. Shalom Hedaya, R. Naftali Baruch, R. Shmuel Azran, R. Yeshuah Ben-Shushan and R. Avraham Azriel. [Jerusalem, ca. 1930s].
• Letter to the philanthropist Moshe Sikirra, a request for assistance for the poor of Jerusalem before the Passover festival, signed by the Rishon LeTzion R. Eliyahu Moshe Panigel, R. Mordechai Yisrael, R. Chaim David Sornaga and R. Shmuel Nisim. Jerusalem, Adar 1929.
• Three letters from the Sephardic Beit Din. Letter on divorce matters sent to R. Uziel, signed by dayanim R. Shmuel Nisim, R. Shlomo Hedaya and R. Chaim Eliyah HaLevi. Jerusalem, Tamuz 1912; certificate declaring Avraham son of Chaim Chason unmarried, signed by dayanim R. Chaim Eliyah HaLevi, R. Shmuel Moshe Mizrachi and R. Shalom Hedaya. Jerusalem, Elul 1912; certificate declaring Bat Sheva daughter of R. Yitzchak HaLevi unmarried, signed by dayanim R. Shmuel Nisim, R. Shalom Hedaya and R. Avraham Bijajo. Jerusalem, Iyar 1914.
• Letter signed and stamped by R. Moshe Franko, "Chacham Bashi in Jerusalem", to R. Bentzion Uziel. Jerusalem, Av 1914.
• Letter from the Maghrebi community council, sent to R. Refael Chaim Moshe Ben-Naim (Rachaman) in Gibraltar, signed and stamped by rabbis of Jerusalem and Maghrebi community officials – R. Nachman Betito, Rabbi of the Maghrebi community; R. Eliyahu Yaakov Ajimi; R. Shimon Ashriki; R. Shmuel Alaluf; and R. Yaakov Ben-Atar. Jerusalem, Tishrei 1912.
• Letter of the Maghrebi Beit Din in Jerusalem, sent to R. Bentzion Uziel, Rabbi of Tel Aviv, signed by the dayanim R. Shmuel Azran, R. Yosef Shlush and R. Shalom Azulai. Jerusalem, Tamuz 1931.
• Printed emissary letter (in gilt ink) for the emissary of the Maghrebi community R. Shlomo Kohen Zaguri, with (printed) signatures of R. Avraham Abikhzir, R. Yosef Shlush, R. Shalom Azulai, R. Amram Aburbeh and community officials. Rohld press, Jerusalem. Filled in by hand, mentioning "Sefrou" and the philanthropist "Amram Attiya", with stamp of R. Shlomo HaKohen Sikli, Sivan 1936.
• Letter containing an appeal from the General Orphanage, signed by R. Avraham Pilosof, R. Yosef HaLevi, R. Chanania Gavriel and R. Avraham Azriel. Jerusalem, Elul 1914.
• Letter signed by R. Nisim Danon, head of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, regarding the Blumenthal orphanage. Jerusalem, Shevat 1919.
• Handwritten inscription (in Ashkenazic script) of money accounts, signed by R. Yaakov Shaul Elyashar. Jerusalem, Tishrei 1887.
13 items, including 12 items with the rabbis' signatures. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition.