Auction 50 Part 2 Special Premium Auction | Rare Judaica, Letters, Manuscripts, and Sifrei Kodesh
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Jan 12, 2022
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Auction No. 50 It will be held on Wednesday the 10th of the Shevat 5782 • 12.01.2022 • At 19:00 Israel time
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LOT 031:
Three Megillot on Parchment. Europe, 19th Century. Rare. The books of Ruth, Kohelet and Shir HaShirim, written on one parchment. In pleasant Ashkenazi writing. In synagogues which follow the Vilna Gaon’s rulings, the cantor reads the megillot on the three pilgrim festivals with a blessing from ...
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LOT 032:
Leaf handwritten with mikrah and targum. Ashkenaz, 13-14th century, taken from bindings. Block-letter manuscript on parchment, antique, taken from binding. Pretty, calligraphic writing, one page written on both sides, containing a section from the end of Bereishit (Parshat Vayechi), describing ...
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LOT 033:
Manuscript leaf On parchment of Rav Elfas (the Rif)—Italy, 15th century. Handwritten leaf, pretty Italian script, containing an excerpt from the Hilchot Rav Elfas—the Rif on Masechet Brachot, end of the 7th chapter and beginning of the 8th. A few differences from what was printed—not checked ...
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LOT 034:
4 handwritten pages with Chiddushei HaRamban on Masechet Yevamot. 15-16th century (Approx). 4 handwritten pages containing Chiddushei HaRamban on Yevamot, daf 45 and 50 (amud bet). A few differences from the printed version. Pretty, uniform Mizrahi handwriting, probably taken from bindings. ...
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LOT 035:
Collection of sections of antique manuscripts on parchment—Yemen, 15-16th century (approx.). Removed from bindings. A number of antique parchment pages taken from bindings, containing excerpts from mikrah and targum. Yemen, 15=16th century. 1. Bereishit, Parshat Vayetze, Targum in Aramaic. 2. ...
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LOT 036:
Rare segulah daf: Prayer for those sick with smallpox, handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Michael Yonah of Torino (Italy). 18th century. “Master of the Universe and Lord of Lords, ruler of the upper and lower worlds…protect your people and have mercy on it and on your children, the young and old ...
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$300
LOT 037:
“Haskama al HaHashkama” – rare and historic document, a window into a Jewish community in Italy, beginning of the 19th century. An inspiring document, in beautiful Assyrian script. In it, the Jews of the community take it upon themselves to arrive on time for the morning prayer. The title is ...
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LOT 038:
Collection of letters and handwriting from gedolei Yisrael of the 18th century onward. Binder filled with dozens of handwritten pages on a variety of issues from talmidei chachamim: 1. Halachic note written in the margins of a book (torn out), probably by Rabbi Mendele of Desh, son of the ...
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LOT 039:
Rare: manuscript of a siddur for the whole year, in 2 volumes. Habban, Yemen. End of the 19th century. Yemenite manuscript, a siddur for the whole year—complete! Following the nusach of the Jews of Habban, which is similar to that of the Baladim but in this manuscript there are some additions ...
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LOT 040:
Rare manuscript of unprinted practical kabbalah: Mafte’ach Shlomo – Iraq 1932. Copied from an ancient manuscript. Rare manuscript, a copy of the book “Mafte’ach Shlomo” on “magic, goralot, and practical kabbalah, segulot and remedies. Attributed to King Solomon. The book contains vows of 100 ...
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LOT 041:
Ramban on the Torah in rare condition. Pizzaro (Italy), 1514. Foundational work. Commentary by Rabbeinu Moshe ben Nachman (the Ramban) on the Torah, the commentary read widely across the Jewish world and which led many of the greatest of the generations to be astonished at his words; some even ...
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LOT 042:
Sefer HaShorashim by the Radak. Venice 1547. By Rabbeinu David Kimchi, the Radak (one of the Rishonim). An important and foundational work on Hebrew grammar, organized alphabetically. Originally published as part 2 of his book “Michlol”. Printed in Venice by Lord Marco Antonio Justinian. The ...
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LOT 043:
Sefer Michlal Yofi—first edition, Constantinople 1549. Commentaries and discussions on niqqud and grammar, on Tanach, by Rabbi Shlomo ibn Melech. First edition, printed by Moshe ben Eliezer Parnes HaRofeh. [191] leaves. Title page is repaired but has moth damage, moisture stains and mold on ...
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LOT 044:
Copy with yichus in rare condition: Bechinat Olam, with the first edition of the commentary from Rabbi Moshe ben Haviv. Ferrara 1552. Bechinat Olam, a foundational work of Jewish thought by Rabbi Yedidya HaPnini (author of the Mivchar HaPninim), a Rishon. This edition contains the first edition ...
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LOT 045:
Rare and special: Set of Shulchan Aruch, Hanau 1626-28. Small format, antique handwritten glosses. Set of the Shulchan Aruch, all four sections with different title pages for each. By Maran Rabbi Yosef Karo, with glosses of the Rama, and, for the first time with this edition, citations for ...
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LOT 046:
Pretty copy in good condition: Shut Beit HaLevi. Venice 1632. Shut from Moharar Yaakov (ben Yisrael) of the Beit HaLevi, printed in Venice. 194 leaves. Introduction by the author. Tear at the upper edge of the title page, no damage to text. Stains, later binding, well-preserved copy in very ...
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LOT 047:
Rare! Sefer Yavin Shmu’ah with many handwritten glosses and chiddushim. First edition from the author’s lifetime, Venice 1639. Handsome copy in rare condition. Sefer Yavin Shmu’ah by Rabbi Shlomo Elgazi, a work on the Sefer Halichot Olam by Rabbi Yeshuah ben Yosef HaLevi from Tlemcen and ...
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LOT 048:
First edition of the book Shnei Luchot HaBrit by Rabbi Yeshaya Horwitz (the Shla HaKadosh). Amtserdam 1648-49. Partially missing copy. Sefer HaShla, with imrot taharoth, chiddushim on Shas, drashot of mussar, and divrei torah on the parshiyot, by Rabbi Yeshaya Horwitz. Printed by Emmanuel ...
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LOT 049:
Dedicated edition of the Shla Nachat. With the title page featuring “Vavei Amudim”. Amsterdam 1698. Partially missing copy. Sefer HaShla by Rabbi Yeshayahu HaLevi Horwitz with “Vavei Amudim” by Rabbi Shabtai Sheptil Horwitz ben HaShla, printed by Emmanuel ben Yosef Attias. This handsome ...
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LOT 050:
Pesach Haggadah, Chaluka d’Rabbanan – first edition, Amsterdam 1695. Sefer Chaluka d’Rabbanan, 3 commentaries on the Pesach Haggadah: the Shnei Luchot HaBrit by Rabbi Yeshaya Horwitz (the Shla HaKadosh), the Mateh Aharon and Kutonet Pasim by the gaon Rabbi Aharon Teumim, and Tzafnat Pane’ach by ...
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LOT 051:
Rare: Five Chumshei Torah, Megillot, and Haftarot, in a small pocket format. Venice 1702-1704. On the title page of the chumash: “Five Chumshei Torah, Five Megillot, and Haftarot, according to the minhag of all the holy communities, reprinted in beautiful letters in line with the holy Amsterdam ...
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LOT 052:
Machzor for the whole year, nusach Ashkenaz, with additions in Polish nusach, pocket format. Offenbach 1734, original leather bindings. Machzor for the whole year, with the five megillot and slichot of Yom Kippur and yotzrot of Shabbat Chol HaMoed…Amsterdam letters [Offenbach], 1734, printed by ...
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LOT 053:
Yom Kippur machzor following the minhag of the community of Carpentras. First edition, only 600 copies produced—Amsterdam 1739. Copy in rare condition. Seder Yamim Nora’im following the minhag of Carpentras, second section for Yom Kippur. Printed by Hertz Levi Rofeh for Rabbi Avraham Montil. ...
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LOT 054:
The first Hebrew book printed in North Africa: Zera Yitzhak—first edition, Tunisia 1768. Copy with yichus. Zera Yitzhak, a work on tractates in Shas, by Rabbi Yitzhak Lombrozo. First (rare) edition. This is probably the first Hebrew book printed in North Africa. Categorized as rare by the ...
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LOT 055:
Complete set of mishnayot in their original leather bindings, with strings for closing the volumes—Dyhernfurth 1777. Copy in rare, special condition. Set of 6 sidrei Mishnah in three volumes. The first edition printed with the work “Yesh Seder LaMishnah” by Rabbi Yeshaya Pick (during his ...
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LOT 056:
Rare polemical work warning of modernization and secularism in Europe. A pamphlet called “Olam Chadash” or “Olam Hafuch”. Only edition, London 1789. This pamphlet is called Olam Chadash and Olam Hafuch, because of the new and upside-down things done, as described inside, in our time, may Hashem ...
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$850
LOT 057:
Rare: Sefer Zivchei Kohen on laws of shechita and bedika with all 8 illustrations – first edition (and only), Livorno 1832. Sefer Zivchei Kohen, a summary of laws of shechita and bedika of lungs and laws of nikkur following the minhag of Italian Jewry, with wonderful illustrations made from ...
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LOT 058:
Tikkunei HaZohar printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira. Slavita 1821. Copy owned by rabbis of the Schmerler family. Tikkunei HaZohar “written by the Holy Tana Rabbi Shimon bar Yochay” with additions, printed by the Slavita Rav. 154 leaves. Approbations from Admor Rabbi Ephraim of Sadilkov, and the ...
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LOT 059:
Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat. Printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira, Slavita 1822. Leather binding from the period. “Shulchan Aruch (part 4) Choshen Mishpat…with the Beer Heitev from the Gaon Zecharya Mendel and the addition of Chiddushei Dinim from the Taz and Chiddushei Dinim from the Even ...
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$4,400
LOT 060:
Slavita Psalms: Sefer HaMaggid of the Ketuvim “Psalms and Proverbs”—printed by Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Shapira of Slavita. 1826. Book of Psalms and Proverbs from the series “HaMaggid” from Ketuvim, 5th section with Targum Yonatan, Rashi, and Metzudot, and Yiddish commentary. 216 leaves. This copy ...
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LOT 061:
Rare: Machzor for the Regalim, nusach sfard. Printed by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shapira, Zhitomir 1863. Machzor, second section for the Regalim, printed by the grandson of the SlavitaRav. 148 leaves. 21cm. Moth damage and tears have been repaired, some have damage to text—mainly in the margins of the ...
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LOT 062:
Rare, not listed in bibliographic sources: Slichot, nusach Poland. Printed by the Shapira brothers in Zhitomir 1863. Seder Slichot following the minhag of Lesser Poland and Greater Poland…printed in large letters, organized with the slichot to be said every day such as Erev Yom Kippur and Yom ...
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LOT 063:
Rare, absent in bibliographic literature: Kinot for Tisha B’Av, with Eicha. Printed by the Shapira brothers in Zhitomir 1866. Seder Kinot and Eicha, “and we have now added the Seder Tikkun Shlosha Mishmarot, and Seder Kriya for Tisha B’Av and haftara…everything in its place may it come in peace ...
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$600
LOT 064:
Tikkun Leil Shavuot and Hoshana Raba “b’hashgacha Rabbi Chanina Lipa of Slavita”—Jozefof 1842. Tikkun Leil Shavuot and Hoshana Raba, “with all the maalot from the tikkun printed earlier in Slavita, printed in Jozefof by the press previously in Slavita, overseen by Rabbi Chanina Lipa Shapira of ...
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LOT 065:
First edition of the Siddur Tikkunei Shabbat by Rabbi Moshe of Zolshin. Warsaw 1872. A slightly incomplete copy. Siddur Tikkunei Shabbat…prayers for the whole year and Yom Kippur Katan and prayers of the High Holidays, Viduy founded by our ancient fathers…Masechet Shabbat based on Rav Ovadya of ...
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LOT 066:
Especially rare Chassidic siddur: Seder Or Zarua LaTzaddik—Lemberg 1885. First edition of the commentary by Rabbi Shlomo Klluger on the seder tefilla. Siddur in nusach Sfard, Or Zarua LaTzaddik with Derech HaChaim and Nehora HaShalem, tikkunei Shabbat by Rabbi Moshe of Zolshin, and the first ...
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LOT 067:
Important kabbalistic siddur: Chesed L’Avraham. Mantua 1783. Very good condition. Chesed L’Avraham, a prayerbook organized according to the kavanot of the Arizal, by the kabbalist Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Shalom Toviana of Algeria (also wrote the Etz Chaim and B’Terem Boker). Includes three ...
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LOT 068:
Book of Tehillim of the Head of the Ma’aravim Community, Rabbi David son of Shimon, the Devash. Psalms Naeh L’Hodot, first edition Livorno 1865. A book of Tehillim with the commentary Naeh L’Hodot, by Rabbi Nissim Avraham Ashkenazi (born in Izmir and served as dayan in the beit din of Rabbi ...
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LOT 069:
“That man should know that the torments are for his own good” – an excerpt from a drash handwritten by the Reish Galuta of Bavel, the Ben Ish Hai. Daf segula. Segulah: a leaf handwritten by Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim ben Eliyahu – the Ben Ish Chai of Baghdad. From a drash in which he explicates on ...
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LOT 070:
Hundreds of handwritten notes by Rabbi Moshe Sav’on of Oran, on the Shut Rashba, Wein 1812. Hundreds of notes, including dozens of lengthy comments, handwritten by Rabbi Moshe Sav’on of Oran, one of Algeria’s greatest sages and kabbalists, on the work Shut Rashba, printed in Vienna in 1812. ...
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LOT 071:
Long and interesting (historical) tshuva handwritten by Rabbi Ovadya Yosef. During the peace talks with Egypt. Long halachic tshuva handwritten by Rabbi Ovadya Yosef, in answer to a some journalists’ question as to whether or not it was permitted to travel to Egypt. “In answer to the religious ...
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LOT 072:
Kodesh kedoshim: Handwritten amulets and goralot by various kabbalists, from Rav Khadouri’s home, some used by him personally. 1. Tefila Nora’ah v’Kedosha and a prayer for a person in difficulties, with kavanot and names. 2. Daf with segulot from the book “Refuah v’Chaim MiYerushalayim” 3. 3 ...
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LOT 073:
Huge collection of handwritten amulets for all subjects—Persia, North Africa, Yemen, Morocco, Iraq, Israel; 19-20th centuries. Huge collection of rare handwritten amulets, with angelic oaths, kabbalistic illustrations, and holy names. Collected from a wide variety of Mizrahi areas: Persia ...
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LOT 074:
Documents from the Chevra Kadisha of Paris and the local Jewish community. Paris, beginning of the 20th century. Lot of various documents from the “Chevra Kadisha of Paris”, and the local Jewish community. Between 1889-1932. Contains official reports, receipts, accounting reports, and a bunch of ...
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LOT 075:
Large archive, family history of the Rivlin family and the Old Yishuv. Original letters, students of the Gra, rare printed Jerusalem artifacts. Large archive of hundreds of pages, documents, newspaper clippings, rabbinical letters, and more…mainly dealing with the Jerusalem Rivlin family and the ...
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LOT 076:
Museum-worthy item with important historical testimony: A Kollel booklet of the Etz Chaim yeshiva, with a summary of correspondence, particularly America—Jerusalem 1929-31. Booklet of the Etz Chaim yeshiva in Jerusalem—288 pages of summaries of letters sent from the US and Canada to the Etz ...
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LOT 077:
Collection of receipts handwritten by gedolim, tzaddikim, and Admorim between 1904-1952. Exciting collection of receipts certifying support for the Vaad Klali Kollel, received by gedolim in the prior generations, who handwrote their certification of receipt of monthly support. Most members of ...
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LOT 078:
Handwriting and signature of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld Ga’avad of the Eida Charedit, on calling for a public fast as a result of the bloodshed of 1929. A call for a public fast on Erev Rosh Chodesh Elul 1929, following the bloody disturbances which took place in Chevron on Shabbat the 18th of ...
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LOT 079:
Polemical work: A protest letter from American rabbis, including the Ridbaz and Rabbi Shalom Elchanan Yafeh, regarding the machloket over the American Kollel. “And we are already tired of the controversy that prevails in our holy land” – a protest letter addressed to the Bikkur Cholim hospital ...
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LOT 080:
Discovery: handwritten note from the author Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik(?) on the Beis HaLevi on the Torah—first edition, Warsaw 1884. Beis HaLevi on Drosh and Mili d’Agadetah—drashot organized by parshah from Bereishit to Ki Tisa. First edition, Warsaw 1884. Two title pages (separate ...
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