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 31:

KAMAI, ELIYAHU BARUCH (Av Beth Din and Rosh Yeshiva of Mir ...


Start price:
$ 1,000
Estimated price :
$1,000 - $1,500
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
04/04/2024 at Kestenbaum & Company
tags:

KAMAI, ELIYAHU BARUCH (Av Beth Din and Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, 1840-1917).

Autograph Letter Signed and stamped, written in Hebrew to R. Binyamin Goldberg(?).


Warm blessings for the upcoming new year.


One page, small tear at blank margin.

Mir, 26th Ellul, 1901.


One of the very great Lithuanian Rabbis, Telz-born R. Eliyahu Baruch Kamai was appointed at the recommendation of the Beis HaLevi to serve as Rabbi of Karelitz. In 1899 he was called upon to succeed R. Chaim Leib Tikutinsky as Rosh Yeshiva of Mir, which heralded the beginning of a remarkable new era for the storied Yeshiva. R. Eliyahu Baruch’s astounding fluency in all works of Torah infused intense discipline across all levels of the yeshiva. His celebrated successor and son-in-law, R. Eliezer Yehuda Finkel was just one of his many outstanding disciples.