Auction 98 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Books Printed in Jerusalem, Letters and Manuscripts, Jewish Ceremonial Art
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Calendar for year 5637 (1877) with festivals, fast days, moladot, tekufot, summary of customs, and Ir David, by R. David Kohen of Vilna. Jerusalem: Agan and Yitzchak Gościnny, [1876].
Page 1 after title page printed in gilt ink, with a printed new year blessing to be filled out by hand, and a stamp of R. David HaKohen of Vilna, author of Ir David.
Ir David is comprised of sentences which all have the numerical value of the year 5637.
[24] leaves. Some leaves may be bound out of place. Two leaves evidently bound backwards (the verso appearing before the recto). 17.5 cm. Especially brittle and dry paper. Fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears and open tears. Title page and other leaves at beginning of book detached. Stamps. Old cardboard binding, torn.
Last eight leaves of the book printed in a different typeface and order and on different paper than first leaves of book (apparently printed at another press).
Rare. Sh. Halevy, no. 272 records a partial copy with only [11] leaves, based on the Jews' College Library copy in London. The present copy is complete.
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Ir David, comprising an enumeration of all negative and positive commandments, and various laws, by R. David Kohen of Vilna. Jerusalem: R. Y. D. Frumkin, 1887.
Comprised of sentences with the numerical value of the year of printing, 5747 (1887).
8; 96 pages. 16.5 cm. Dry paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Open tear to title page, bordering title frame, and another small tear at top, repaired with paper. Light worming. Title page and several other pages faded. New leather binding.
R. David Kohen printed several similar books in the 1870s-1880s comprised of sentences with the numerical value of the year.
Sh. Halevy, no. 595.
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![153-year calendar for years 5648-5800 (1888-2040). Jerusalem: Shmuel HaLevi Zuckerman and partner, [1888].
Title page print](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale98/149_1.jpg "153-Year Calendar – Calendar for 1888-2040 – Jerusalem, 1888 – Illustr")
![153-year calendar for years 5648-5800 (1888-2040). Jerusalem: Shmuel HaLevi Zuckerman and partner, [1888].
Title page print](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale98/149_2.jpg "153-Year Calendar – Calendar for 1888-2040 – Jerusalem, 1888 – Illustr")
153-year calendar for years 5648-5800 (1888-2040). Jerusalem: Shmuel HaLevi Zuckerman and partner, [1888].
Title page printed in gold and blue, with illustrations of the Western Wall and the Tomb of Rachel.
[4] pages (double leaf). Approx. 21 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear. Tears, including small open tears and damage to margins, slightly affecting text in several places (mainly to last page). Unbound (placed in a new case).
Not recorded by Sh. Halevy.
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Sod Yesharim, "a hundred Segulot… cures, wonders and amazing things" by R. Yehudah Aryeh of Modena. Jerusalem: [Yoel Moshe Salomon, 1880?].
Advice, Segulot and cures, also including various magical acts. First printed in Venice, 1595, along with fifty riddles, not included in this edition. Author's name alluded to only in initials appearing on the title page (his authorship is confirmed in his autobiography).
24 pages. 12.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears to several leaves. Close trimming, slightly affecting text of several leaves. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 349.
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Order of gleaning, offering and counting the Omer, with holy sites and a song for Lag BaOmer. Jerusalem: printer not indicated, [ca. 1880].
Incorporates images of holy sites in Eretz Israel throughout.
[8] leaves. Approx. 12 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor creases. Old paper wrapper, with nylon binding.
Rare booklet. Undocumented by Sh. Halevy. Documented in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book based on a copy from a private collection.
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Tefillot HaBoker, prayers based on the teachings of R. Natan of Breslov (disciple of R. Nachman of Breslov). Jerusalem: Y. D. Frumkin, [1881].
[2], 66 pages. 15.5 cm. Somewhat dry and dark paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Light wear. Small marginal tears and open tears to title page and several other leaves. New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 386.
This book is the Ashmoret HaBoker recorded by G. Scholem, Eleh Shemot, Jerusalem 1928, p. [5], no. 4 (recording a copy with 62 pages; Scholem notes he had not seen a complete copy).
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State of the Holy City of Safed and its Ashkenazi residents, by Elazar Rokeach, a resident of Safed. Jerusalem: printed by the publisher of HaChavatzelet [Yisrael Dov Frumkin, 1881].
The book contains a description of Jewish life in Safed, and includes a harsh criticism of R. Refael Silberman, dayan and posek in Safed, and also mentions a dispute between R. Yaakov Berish of Ramin and R. Shmuel Heller.
68 pages. 13.5 cm. Dry paper. Good condition. Stains. Marginal tears to several leaves. Close trimming, affecting page numbers. New nylon binding.
Date of printing after Sh. Halevy. The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book and NLI catalogue give the date as 1874.
Sh. Halevy, no. 372.
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Mevaseret Zion – printed proclamation, letter at the behest of R. Raphael Meir Panigel, the Marpe, after he was chosen for the position as "Head of the Rabbis and Rishon LeZion", succeeding R. Avraham Ashkenazi (who died in Shevat 1880). The proclamation bears the official stamp of R. Panigel. Jerusalem, Rosh Chodesh Elul 1880.
In this proclamation, R. Panigel announces the appointment of a committee responsible for material matters and another for spiritual matters, to supervise the distribution of funds received by Kollel Jerusalem and to undertake responsibility for the religious requirements of the city.
The proclamation lists the heads of the material committee who are responsible for supervising the distribution of funds received by Kollel Jerusalem to be distributed among orphans, widows and Torah scholars and for tuition, etc. Also listed are names of the heads of the spiritual committee whose task is to supervise the religious needs of the city according to Torah law and Jewish customs.
28.5X38 cm. Good-fair condition. Few stains. Folding creases. Tears to folding marks in the center of the leaf, slightly affecting the text.
Rare, bibliographically unknown proclamation. It does not appear in Sh. Halevy, nor in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, and is not recorded in the NLI catalogue.
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Laws and customs of Erev Pesach coinciding with Shabbat, by R. Chaim Eliezer Hausdorf. Jerusalem: Yitzchak Gościnny, 1883.
Short booklet containing laws of Erev Pesach falling on Shabbat, based on the Shulchan Aruch and later authorities.
On pp. 13-15, order of sale of chametz and text of document of sale, in Yiddish.
16 pages. 17.5 cm. Dry, somewhat brittle paper. Good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 416.
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Ashir VeRash, ethical work in the literary form of a dialogue on the virtue of kindness, by R. Bentzion Alkalai. Jerusalem: Elchanan son of Avraham Yitzchak [Tennenbaum] and Aharon Uziel Rokeach, [1884]. First edition.
Ownership inscriptions and dedications: On title page, self-dedication on receipt of the book from the author, signed "Yehudah Chaim HaKohen" [apparently R. Yehudah Chaim HaKohen Tarab-Maslaton, born in Damascus, Rabbi of Cairo, author of VeZot LiYehudah], with another inscription in the same hand on giving the book to someone else. On verso of title page, printed dedication filled out by hand by the author to "R. Efraim Alkalai"; on leaf [2] ownership inscription and stamps.
The author, R. Bentzion Alkalai (1858-1913), born in Morocco, lost his eyesight at the age of eight but nevertheless became a great Torah scholar. Member of the Beit Din of the Sedei Chemed in Hebron and author of over nine books, which were dictated to his son or disciples; the present dedication was apparently also dictated by him.
[2], 29, [1] leaves. Approx. 19 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears and open tears, slightly affecting text on several leaves. Worming in many places, affecting text. New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, no. 466.
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Shaarei Shamayim, year-round Ashkenazic-rite prayers, travel edition, by Mordechai Adelman. Jerusalem: Y, Gościnny, 1884.
On front and back endpapers and boards, stamps and various inscriptions from England and Paris.
[1], 144 leaves. Approx. 7 cm. Dry paper. Overall good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears and open tears to several leaves. Damage and rubbing marks on title page, slightly affecting title frame. Leather binding, with olive wood boards on front and back ends of binding and the inscription "Jerusalem" on the front of the binding. Damage to binding. Placed in a new cardboard case.
This rare siddur is undocumented by Sh. Halevy.
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The book Kedushat HaAretz, a compilation from the Bible, Talmud, Midrashim and the Zohar, about the sanctity of the Land of Israel, by R. Moshe Wortmann (author of "Romemut Nishmat Yisrael"). Jerusalem: Yitzchak ben Tzvi [Gaszinne], [1885].
Between the title page and the following leaf is bound a folded leaf, with a printed dedication to "the Rabbinic Geonim", and to "the mighty wealthy philanthropists, charity administrators in every place", signed by "Levi Yitzchak Wortmann" – the author's son, describing his dire financial situation and requesting aid and assistance. This leaf is not recorded by Sh. Halevy.
The author, rabbi Moshe Wortmann of Kozhnitz (d. 1874), was renowned throughout Poland as a righteous scholar immersed in Torah day and night. He would frequent the courts of the great tzaddikim, including his teacher and mentor rabbi Chaim Meir Yechiel Shapira the Seraph of Mogielnica, his brother-in-law, rabbi Ze'ev of Józefów, and Rabbi Yerachmiel of Peshischa (Przysucha). He would fast from Shabbat to Shabbat for many years and would distribute all his wealth and possessions to widows and orphans. He ascended to Jerusalem in 1860 and continued his lofty conduct. Among his other books: Romemut Nishmat Yisrael, Tzedah LaDerech, Sefer HaChaim, Divrei Torah, Shivchei HaAretz HaKedosha, and more.
[2], 1-43, 45-51 leaves. Approx. 16 cm. Dry and brittle paper. Fair-good condition. Stains. Wear. Tears to margins of leaves. Uncut gatherings. New leather binding.
Sh. Sh. Halevy, no. 527.
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