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 45:

RABINOWITZ, YITZCHOK YA’AKOV.


Start price:
$ 2,500
Estimated price :
$2,500 - $3,500
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875% On the full lot's price and commission
04/04/2024 at Kestenbaum & Company
tags:

RABINOWITZ, YITZCHOK YA’AKOV. (“Reb Itzele Ponevicher, ” 1854–1919).

Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew.


Providing assistance for “HaGaon R. Chaim Yitzchak…” and his desire to find an appropriate pulpit in Lithuania. Continues with Chidushei Torah relating to the topic of Chalitzah.


Two pages, small tear at edge affecting couple letters.
1914.


The Ga’on R. Yitzchak Ya’akov Rabinowitz (R. Itzele Ponivezher) was among the disciples of the Beis HaLevi and studied alongside his son, R. Chaim Soloveitchik. In 1889 R. Itzele headed the Slabodka Yeshiva before leaving to serve the rabbinate of Ponevezh where he founded its famed yeshiva. He was an intellectual giant in Torah and originated new paths in the conceptual understanding of Talmud. R. Itzele’s responsa were posthumously published under the title Zecher Yitzchak.