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 39:

LEIBOWITZ, BARUCH BER (Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenitz, 1864-1939). ...


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:

LEIBOWITZ, BARUCH BER (Rosh Yeshiva of Kamenitz, 1864-1939).

Typed Letter Signed and stamped, written in Yiddish on letterhead.


An open letter offering words of spiritual uplift to the supporters of the yeshiva educational systems. He reminds his audience that their generosity sustains hundreds of devote Torah scholars.


Page two only (of 2).

Kamenetz, c., 1930.


R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz was one of the prime disciples of R. Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk, his mentor in Volozhin yeshiva. Later, as Rosh Yeshiva of Knesses Beis Yitzchak, the non-mussar offshoot of the Slabodka yeshiva named for R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, R. Baruch Ber was an exponent of the style of Talmud study first pioneered by his teacher R. Chaim.

His Birkas Shmuel and Shiurei R. Baruch Ber continue to be widely studied in yeshivos to this day.