Bidspirit auction | Four Chumashim Owned and Used

Four Chumashim Owned and Used by R. Moshe Aryeh Freund – Various Editions - Lot of four Chumashim owned and used by R. Moshe Aryeh Freund in prewar Satmar, as follows: Chumash Sefer Shemos - with Ohr Hachaim, Lemberg 1885. Tefillos for Shabbos in Nusach Sefard at end. With stamps of R. Moshe Aryeh Freund and Baruch Bendit Katz. Pages 62 and 385 are torn and mostly missing.  Chumash Sefer Vayikra - with Ohr Hachaim, Vilna 1924. With stamps of R. Moshe Aryeh Freund. On the flyleaf are detailed inscriptions, handwritten by R. Freund, recording the birth of his son Baruch and his daughter Chava. Sadly, both of them perished in the Holocaust. Also seen on the flyleaf are various other ownership inscriptions, including: “Menachem Yehuda Fleischmann from Rachov”, “Avraham Fleischmann”, “Yitzchok Bretler”, and others. In moderate condition, with tears and signs of wear, sometimes with loss of text. No binding.   Chumash Sefer Devarim - with Ohr Hachaim, Vilna (?). Copy lacking first 15 leaves or so. With ownership inscriptions of R. Moshe Aryeh’s son R. Zev, who also perished in the Holocaust. “Zev Freund from Bonyhad”, and “Zev Freund of Satmar”. Moderate condition. This volume does not bear any stamps of R. Moshe Aryeh - only inscriptions of his son R. Zev. Chumash Sefer Bamidbar - with Ohr Hachaim, Vilna (?). Title page lacking, and following 2 leaves are torn with damage and loss. With stamps of R. Moshe Aryeh Freund. Also bears the ownership stamps of R. Simcha Yissachar Ber Hakohen Sander. Also seen is the stamp of Alter Steinmetz - bookbinder of Satmar and surrounding areas, who apparently bound this volume.    R. Moshe Aryeh Freund (1903–1996), Av Beis Din of the Eidah HaChareidis in Jerusalem from 1979 until his death. He was born in Bonyhad, Hungary, to R. Yisroel Freund, the local Av Beis Din, and grandson of the Admor of Nasod, R. Yehoshua Freund. Prior to the outbreak of WWII, he served as Rosh Yeshiva and Av Beis Bin in Satmar, Romania. He was the sole survivor of his family, as his wife and nine children were murdered by the Nazis. Rebuilding his life after the war, he immigrated to Eretz Yisroel in 1951, leading the Satmar community in Jerusalem and authoring the seminal halachic work Ateres Yehoshua, by which he was affectionately known. Renowned for his piety, zealotry, and unyielding commitment to traditional Judaism, he influenced generations of students and was succeeded by R. Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky and R. Yaakov Fisher upon his passing at age 92.