Bidspirit auction | Collection of Antique Talmud Bavli

Collection of Antique Talmud Bavli Volumes – Frankfurt an der Oder 1736, Sulzbach 1755–1763, and More. - 1. Tractate Bava Batra – Frankfurt an der Oder, 1736. With the approbation of the great Rabbi Moshe ben Avraham Broda, Av Beit Din of Worms. 2. Volumes from the Talmud Set Printed in Sulzbach (1755–1763) – Including: Tractates Berachot, Rosh Hashanah, Ta’anit, Yoma, Sukkah, Shekalim, Megillah, Seder Zera’im, Arakhin, Temurah, Keritot, Me’ilah, Yevamot, Ketubot, and Kiddushin. Should these volumes be burned?! This edition of the Talmud was at the center of a significant and wide-reaching controversy. When the printing began, the Proops printing house in Amsterdam claimed they had exclusive rights — granted by the Council of the Four Lands — to print the Talmud for a 25-year period, as stated in their printing endorsements for their Talmud edition (Amsterdam, 1752–1765). Over time, harsh rulings were issued by the Council of the Four Lands, including decrees to burn or bury the tractates printed in Sulzbach, due to the Sulzbach printers' infringement on the Amsterdam printers' privileges. These decisions were published in the Council’s records (Pinkas Va’ad Arba Aratzot, §§ 398–399, pp. 403–405). Like all proper polemics, this one too led to rabbinic correspondence and strong opinions on both sides, as well as protest pamphlets from each camp. The famed Noda B’Yehuda was asked to intervene and attempted to mediate between the sides. See R. N. N. Rabinowitz, Maamar al Hadpasat HaTalmud (Jerusalem, 1952), pp. 120–121. As for using these volumes after they had already been printed, a halachic ruling was issued by Rabbi Yosef Steinhardt of Fürth in a responsum to Rabbi Shaul of Amsterdam (Responsa Zikhron Yosef, Choshen Mishpat). He writes: “In my humble opinion, it is absolutely clear, as the noonday sun, that it is permissible to study from the Sulzbach edition of the Talmud, even if it was printed under a ban...” In some tractates, portions of the title pages are printed in red ink. All title pages feature the printer’s emblem with the inscription “Zalman the Printer.” Includes an old ownership inscription: Meir Yitzchak Goldberg. 3 . Tractate Yoma – Lemberg, 1862. 4. Tractate Beitzah from the Babylonian Talmud – “With classic commentaries as previously printed, and new additions.” Published by Or Torah, Budapest. Based on the first volume, this edition was printed in 1942.