Auction 59

קודש, חסידות, קבלה, מכתבים, פולמוס, כתבי יד, יודאיקה, סלאוויטא וזיטאמיר, חפצי קודש ועוד – ספרי ביוגרפיה רבים!
Lot 151:Commentary Cheshek Shlomo on the Tosefta of Zra’im, by the well-known forger Shlomo Friedlander. Pressburg 1889

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$150
Lot 152:On the blood libel: Zer HaNitzachon for Rabbi Yosef Shmuel Bloch, on his work in the Blood Libel Affair of Tiszaeszlár. Only edition, Drohobych 1895

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$100
Lot 153:Polemic on the Removal of Dead Bodies: Chayei Olam, first edition Berlin 1905

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$80
Lot 154:“Achad HaAm and his students stood and gave drash and I shall not watch over him”—Masechet Bava Technika, a parody on the war over control of the Hebrew language at the Technion. Jerusalem 1914

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$100
Lot 155:Polemic: ‘Daat HaRabbanim’/’Milchemet Mitzvah’, on women’s participation in elections, by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher. First edition, Warsaw 1920

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$70
Lot 156:Polemic regarding the Warsaw Kollel. Sefer Shut Kvod Yerushalayim. Only edition, Jerusalem 1930.

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$180
Lot 157:Worldwide Polemic: LeDor Acharon, first edition Brooklyn 1937

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$80
Lot 158:Polemic of the Rim Tukochinsky and the Chazon Ish regarding the dateline following the exile of the Lithuanian yeshivot to Shanghai during the Shoah. Sefer HaYomam in the Globe. First edition, Jerusalem 1943

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$50
Lot 159:Pirkei Avot with the Gra’s commentary. First edition of “Derech Avot” by his relative. Vilna 1836

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$120
Lot 160:Heichalot Hazohar with the Gra’s exegesis. First edition, Koenigsberg 1857.

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$130
Lot 161:Shmirat HaLashon with the rare jacket and an interesting stamp. Second edition, author’s lifetime. Vilna 1879

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$100
Lot 162:Rare: “Der Chafetz Chaim”—early booklets on the biography of the Chafetz Chaim. Rabbi Shmuel Fliskin. First edition, Warsaw 1936

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$100
Lot 163:Rare booklet, not listed in bibliographies: Program of the Histadrut of Students of Telz Yeshiva in the US and Canada. New York 1935

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$150
Lot 164:Group of booklets of Telz Yeshivot. New York/Cleveland 1939-45

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$100
Lot 165:Lot of booklets “Knesset Yisrael”, edited by the gaon Rabbi Moshe Karlitz, brother of the Chazon Ish. Vilna 1931-33.

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$70
Lot 166:Lot of books by Maran the Chazon Ish. First editions

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$50
Lot 167:Psalms with maamadot from the library of Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Vilna 1879

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$350
Lot 168:Sefer Meginei Aretz with many significant notes from Rabbi Chaim Menachem Mendel Sherlin. Pretty edition, Warsaw 1863

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$50
Lot 169:Lot of copies from the Steipler’s collection, some with handwritten notes and corrections

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$500
Lot 170:HaPerek Shira from Maran Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky

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$500
Lot 171:Ephemera: Lone leaf with an invitation from the Histadrut of Agudas Yisrael in Vilna. Lithuania, early 20th century.

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$50
Lot 172:“I do not want to connect with them” – a copy of a strongly worded letter from Rabbi Chaim of Brisk against Agudas Yisrael, handwritten by his grandson Rabbi Meshulam David HaLevi Soloveitchik

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$100
Lot 173:Letter with interesting content, handwritten and signed by the gaon Rabbi Meir Lieven, Av Beit Din of Kolelishak, Lithuania, 1902

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$100
Lot 174:Friendly letter with blessings for a shana tova, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Schneur Kotler. Elul 1947

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$300
Lot 175:“Bnei Chayei u’Mezonei, health in body and spirit, blessings for success and all good” – letter signed by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, together with Maran Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Gershon Edelstein and other rabbis

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$300
Lot 176:Rare: volume of issues of the periodical HaDegel. London 1904-1905

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$100
Lot 177:Volume with works by Rabbi Yosef ibn Kaspi: Adoni Kesef, 2 sections | Tam HaKesef—first edition, London 1811-13. With manuscript facsimiles.

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$70
Lot 178:Pamphlet on chalutza, by Rabbi Aryeh Leib Grosnes. London 1956.

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$50
Lot 179:Americana: Tel Shechakim. First edition, St. Louis 1941

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$50
Lot 180:Americana: Antique letter from rabbis of the US on shlichat haget, signed by the Beit Din of NY. 1861

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$150
Lot 181:Americana: Letter on shlichut haget from 1886. Signed by Rabbi Shlomo Mordechai Ziskind, a rabbi of NY

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$100
Lot 182:Rare: Eleh Toldot, an antique booklet on the biography of Maran Chatam Sofer. Only edition, Pressburg 1876.

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$70
Lot 183:Pesach Haggadah, rare, with commentary of the Chatam Sofer. Lemberg 1868

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$130
Lot 184:Rare, not seen at auction: Pamphlet Chiddushei Aggadah by Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Rosenberg of Unsdorf. Facsimile edition from a manuscript. Unsdorf 1912

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$100
Lot 185:Copy with yichus: Kol Sofer on mishnayot. First edition, Munkacs 1881

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$100
Lot 186:Rare! Copy owned by the author of the Kesef Nivchar: Eshel Avraham, first edition, Livorno 1819

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$150
Lot 187:First time at auction: Machzor for Yom Kippur from Rabbi Mordechai Liechtenstein, hy”d, Rabbi of Chirsch

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$70
Lot 188:Unique: letter handwritten and signed by the gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Glick, Av Beit Din of Tolcsva, addressed to Rabbi Chaim Brody, Av Beit Din of Prague. Tolcsva, 1905

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$300
Lot 189:Letter of shlichut get handwritten and signed by the gaon Rabbi Kalman Kalonymus Lieberman, Av Beit Din of Kosoy, to Rabbi Nachum Ehrenfeld, rabbi of Prague. Kosoy 1896

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$100
Lot 190:Letter of complaint on the sale of mitzvot in Prague, by Rabbi Refael Simetbaum of Gorlitz, addressed to Rabbi Chaim Brody, Av Beit Din of Prague. Bohemia 1915

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$100
Lot 191:Emotional letter from during WWI, from a refugee of the war, Rabbi Avraham Moshe Merills, Av Beit Din of Litovisk, Bohemia. 1914, approx..

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$100
Lot 192:“He should contact Rabbi gaon Zonnenfeld and his posse” – two strongly worded letters regarding the sefer Mishpat HaBechira, by Rabbi Ephraim Binyamin Greenfeld, Av Beit Din of Siats, to Rabbi Chaim Brody, Av Beit Din of Prague. Siats 1923

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$300
Lot 193:“My son … was taken to the army for the war” – letter with interesting content from Rabbi Issachar Dov Friedman, author of the Givat Pinchas. Kirolidorowits, 1919

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$100
Lot 194:Interesting letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yitzhak Zvi Sofer, Av Beit Din of Povrik-Timisoara, regarding the kashrut of cigarettes for Pesach. Timisoara 1924

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$160
Lot 195:Letter handwritten and signed by rabbis Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Brody, dayan in Ungvar and son-in-law of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, and Rabbi Moshe Sofer, Av Beit Din of Tisa-Pired. 1915

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$300
Lot 196:Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Cirelson, Av Beit Din of Kishinev, and member of the Council of Torah Sages. To Rabbi Chaim Brody. Kishinev 1927

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$100
Lot 197:Long halachic teshuva, on the probing of graves, by Rabbi Chaim Brody, Rabbi of Prague. With tshuva handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Cirelson, Av Beit Din of Kishinev. 1929

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$150
Lot 198:Letter from the well-known forger: “The Yerushalmi, Seder Kodshim only Sefardi manuscript in the world”. Rare letter never published handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Friedlander regarding the printing of the false Yerushalmi Kodshim. To Rabbi Chaim Brody, Rabb

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$300
Lot 199:Blessing interspersed with gilded letters for the wedding of Rabbi Chaim Brody to the daughter of Rabbi Nachum Ehrenfeld, Rabbi of Prague. Prague 1899

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$70
Lot 200:Chiddushei Torah on Sefer Avodat HaGershoni of the gaon Rabbi Divrei Chaim of Sanz, Rabbi Eliyahu of Greiditz, and the Shoel u’Meishiv of Lemberg. Unknown author. Eastern Europe, 19th century

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$120

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