Auction 44

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Sefer Yismach Moshe—signature and stamps of Rabbi Haim Freund, head of the Satmar community—Marmarosh-Sighet, 1906.

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Yismach Moshe on Prophets and Ketuvim from Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, the Av Beit Din of Ohel and forefather of the Satmar dynasty. The title page has the signature “Haim ben Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund…Tuesday of Behar, 1906.” Stamps in Hebrew and Hungarian.


[2], 96 leaves. Stains, good condition.

Rabbi Haim Freund was born in 1865, son to Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund, head of the Satmar community then and who was a student of the Yeitev Lev and the Divrei Haim of Sanz, father of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Freund of Naszód. Rabbi Haim was also a student of the Yeitev Lev in his youth, he studied in the yeshiva of the Maharam Shik and served as head of the Satmar community, succeeding his father. As an old man he moved to Jerusalem, where he died probably in 1948 and was buried in the Sheikh Bader cemetery.

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