Auction 105: Rabbinic Autograph Letters & Passover Haggadot.
By Kestenbaum & Company
Apr 4, 2024
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

The auction commences with a first edition of the Segulah-book "Raziel HaMalach" (Lot 1); followed by books that were owned by significant rabbis: 


R. Shlomo Ganzfried (Lot 5); The Aruch Hashulchan (Lot 6); R. Meir Shapira of Lublin (Lot 68)


The most valuable lot offered is a Sefer that was personally owned by, and has a long personal inscription in the hand of, R. Chaim Volozhiner (Lot 4).


The auction contains many excellent offerings of Autograph Letters including:


The first Rebbe of Sadigura, R. Avraham Ya'akov (Lot 13); The Chofetz Chaim (Lots 17-20); The Ohr Same’ach (Lot 41); The Kesav Sofer (Lot 58); Reb Chaim Brisker (Lot 59); The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and her sister (Lots 50-51); and dozens more of such letters.


Autograph manuscripts of note are those from R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov (Lot 9A); The Tiferes Yisroel (Lot 40); and a 14th-century Ramba'n manuscript (Lot 9).


As per annual tradition, this pre-Pesach auction features a wide selection of Passover Hagadot:


The rare, the exotic and the curious; with examples from 1545 through until 2008.


Among particularly Early examples: Lot 87 (Venice, 1545); Lot 88 (Riva di Trento, 1561) and Lot 95 (Salonika, 1569).


Beautifully illustrated Hagadoth include: Lot 93 (Venice, 1740); Lot 85 (India, 1874) and Lot 115 (The Avner Moriah Hagadah).


Historically significant Hagadoth include Lot 72 (American/Canadian/Anglo-related) and many examples from Germany, India, Jerusalem; as well as first edition Hagadah commentaries by the Vilna Gaon (Lot 96), R. Ya'akov Emden (Lot 78); and ending with several facsimile editions. 



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LOT 17:

CHOFETZ CHAIM.

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Sold for: $25,000
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$ 25,000
Estimated price :
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Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
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CHOFETZ CHAIM.

(R. Yisroel Meir Kagan). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to R. David Potash, on letterhead stationery of ‘Israel Meir Hakohen, author Chofetz Chaim and Mishnah Berurah’ (Hebrew) and ‘Rabin I.M. Kagan, Radun’ (Polish).


A beautiful Letter with extended blessings for the New Year: "To my honorable and outstanding friend, a seeker of charity and kindness, R. David Potash… As the year draws to its close, I hereby extend my blessings… May Gd renew a year of life, peace, blessing and success in all endeavors, and may his eyes see the salvation of the Jewish people and the raising of the prestige of the Torah, in accordance with the wishes of his friend who blesses him with a Kethiva VeChathima Tovah – Yisrael Meir HaKohen of Radin."


One page (approx. 10 lines). Folds. 4to.
Radun, 20th Ellul, 1926.


An outstanding letter, written in full by the Chofetz Chaim, replete with Blessings. Addressed to the wealthy Russian philanthropist R. David Potash in Tel Aviv (who invested much effort in assisting the Chafetz Chaim with his proposed plans to immigrate to Eretz Israel).

See also: Lot 19.


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