Auction 45
Lot 127:
Haggadah Shel Pesach Mit Musick Noten (with musical notes) and English translation, given as a gift from the yeshiva of Rabbeinu Yaakov Josef (RJJ). The back of the binding has an illustration of the portrait of the Rav HaKollel after which the yeshiva is named. Under that is an inscription in Yiddish.
The back and front blank leaves have descriptions of the yeshiva in Yiddish and English: “The yeshiva has more than 650 students, the yeshiva’s expenses are already reaching close to $100,000 a year. It is interesting to note that more than 50% of the students in the yeshiva of Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanan were accepted in the last zman as students of the yeshiva of Yaakov Yosef.
Hard binding in orange with gilded inscriptions, detached, overall good condition.
The RJJ yeshiva was founded in 1903 and named after the chief rabbi Rabbi Yaakov Yoseph [Charif] (1841 – 1902), a student of the Volozhin yeshiva and one of the foremost disciples of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. He served as the rabbi of several communities in Lithuania. He was the first and only chief rabbi of the city of New York and the founder of the Rabbinic Council of America. He was known as a talented speaker, and thousands of people flocked to hear his speeches. Author of the book L’Beit Yaakov. He fought courageously for the kashrut of meat in the U.S. and suffered much persecution due to such. In recent years the masses have begun to visit his grave in the Union Field cemetery near Lakewood after rumors began to spread about miracles personally witnessed by those who prayed there.
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