LOT 202: Signature of Rabbi Meir Ables, Av Beit Din of Kitze, a student of the Chatam Sofer. Sefer Sha’agas Aryeh, Brunn 1797. Shaagas Aryeh by Rabbi Aryeh Yehuda Leib, with the signature of the gaon Rabbi Meir Ables, Av Beit Din of Kitze and a student of the Chatam Sofer. 79 leaves. A few worming ...
LOT 203: Copy given as a gift by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch: 4 volumes of the Chumash “Totza’ot Chaim”—first edition, Amsterdam 1764-66. Chumashim given as a gift by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried to his son-in-law Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Brody, who served as a dayan in Ungvar. 4 ...
LOT 207: Otzer HaShorashim, second section. Copy owned by Rabbi Yehuda Greenwald. First edition, Vienna 1808. Otzer HaShorashim, second section, including Hebrew and Yiddish, from symbol 40 (mem) to symbol 400 (taf), from Yehuda Leib ben Zeev. 270 leaves. Leather binding from the period of printing ...
LOT 208: Sefer Arugas HaBosem—first edition, Khust 1913. Copy owned by Rabbi Moshe Zvi Landau of Kleinvardin, a student of the author. Sefer Arugas HaBosem on the Torah, 2 sections, by the gaon Rabbi Moshe ben Rabbi Amram Greenwald of Khust, a leading Hungarian rabbi and well-known Rosh Yeshiva, a ...
LOT 209: Psalms “Shaarei Chaim” by Rabbi Chaim Sofer, the Machaneh Chaim. With handwritten dedication from the author’s son, Rabbi Yosef Zvi Sofer, Av Beit Din of Hajdúsámson. Psalms with the commentary Shaarei Chaim, by the Gahatz Rabbi Chaim Sofer, author of the Machaneh Chaim, one of the greatest ...
LOT 214: Extremely rare, not in libraries: Shulchan Aruch Orech Chaim, printed by the Yafeh brothers, Kapost 1814. Shulchan Aruch Orech Chaim, with the Rama, Beer HaGola, and Beer Heitev[!] printed by the partners Yehuda, Israel, and Menachem Nachum, sons of Feivush Yafeh. [3], 5-175; 107, [1] leaves. A ...
LOT 219: Pretty copy: Meginei Aretz, Shulchan Aruch Orech Chaim. Pritned by Rabbi Moshe Shapira, Slavita 1827, including the rare “time chart” (luach hazmanim)!. Sefer Meginei Aretz—Shulchan Aruch Orech Chaim—printed by the Rav of Slavita. With many approbations including from the Admor Rabbi Mordechai ...
LOT 220: Pretty copy: Beer Mayim Chaim, two sections in one volume—Shapira printing, Zhytomyr 1860. Sefer Beer Mayim Chaim, a foundational Chassidic work, the teachings of Rabbi Chaim Tirrer of Chernowitz—printed by the partners, grandsons of the Slavita Rav, Rabbi Chanina Lipa and Rabbi Yehoshua ...
LOT 221: Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Shapira printing, Zhytomyr 1860. Large format. Machzor for RH and YK, minhag of Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, with a commentary in Hebrew and Yiddish copied into spoken language (Judeo-Deutsch). First section, printed by the partners ...
LOT 223: Tikkunei Shabbat, minhag Sfard, printed by Shapira. Zhytomyr 1848, partially missing copy. Includes the Pesach Haggadah and additional leaves from other copies. Siddur Tikkunei Shabbat with the Derech HaChaim following minhag Sfard, printed by the partners, grandsons of the Slavita Rav Rabbi ...
LOT 225: A foundational work of chassidus: Sefer Maor v’Shemesh, first edition Breslau 1842. Sefer Maor v’Shemesh, “the holy notebook on the Five Books of Torah and remazim of the Yamim Nora’im and Three Regalim and some likkutim” from the Admor Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman HaLevi Epstein, one of the closest ...
LOT 227: 2 chassidic works, first editions. Divrei Shmuel (Niklasburg) and Kedushat Levi on Pirkei Avot. Lemberg 1862. Volume with two first-edition Chassidic works: 1. Divrei Shmuel, a Chassidic work on the Torah by Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka of Niklasburg, printed for the first time here based on ...
LOT 229: 2 books of Kosnitz (Kozienice), first editions and rare: Vayachel Moshe on the Psalms & Likkutei Mahara (chassidus). First editions, Lemberg 1868-72. Small volume with two books from Kosnitz, first (rare) editions): Vayachel Moshe, a commentary on Psalms by the Admor Rabbi Moshe Elyakim ...
LOT 230: Bigdei Srad (by the Arvei Nahal) and Pri Hadar. First edition, Krotshin/Vilna, 1852/67 - from the library of the gaon Rabbi Chaim Berlin, with handwritten lines by him. Sefer Bigdei Srad, halachot of treifus for animals and birds, by the gaon Rabbi David Shlomo Eibeschitz, author of the Arvei ...
LOT 231: Well-preserved, pretty copy: Rare Chassidic siddur—Kohelet Shlomo by the Admor Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlov hy”d. First edition, Maramures-Sighet, 1907, with a leaf not listed in bibliographies. Prayers for the entire year, minhag sfard, published by the Admor Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlov of Bolchov ...
LOT 241: Rare chassidus: Beer Menachem by Rabbi Menachem Brody of Koliv, the son-in-law of the Rahak of Tosh. First edition, Nyíregyháza 1937. Rare printing. Sefer Beer Menachem, “sheds light on the Torah…through the Besht…who left behind him a blessing, the Admor … Maran Menachem Brody…successor of his ...
LOT 242: Extremely rare! Not listed bibliographically. Marganita d’Admor the HaKadosh v’Tahor of Ruzhin. Jerusalem, after 1940. “I took it upon myself to gather holy maamarim from Maran Kadosh Yisrael of Ruzhin…which are still only passed orally by elder chassidim, and to write them down in order to ...
LOT 243: Brit Kehunat Olam—first edition of the Chassidic commentary Shaar Shimon. Jerusalem 1949-50. Sefer Brit Kehunat Olam on the three sections, a Chassidic, kabbalistic work by Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Katz, Av Beit Din of Koritz and Ostraha. Now printed with the commentary Shaar Shimon by the kabbalist ...
LOT 244: Two sections of Chok L’Yisrael from a rare, holy printer. Chassidic edition, Radovil 1819. Partially missing copies. Chumash Chok L’Yisrael, “we added mussar…and halacha from the Rambam and other poskim…for every day and also for Friday a Mishnah and gemara and kabbalah and mussar and psak ...
LOT 250: Lot of three biographical works. Two on Maran the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and one, Sefer Toldot Shmuel, on Rabbi Shmuel Rosenberg, Av Beit Din of Unsdorf. Lot of three books bound together. 1. Sefer Zechareinu LeChaim, part 1, “in which are told for the youngest generation stories and miracles ...
LOT 251: Collection of Chassidic books from Munkacs + Sefer Segulah: Kedushat Levi. Munkacs 1938-40. Lot of 5 chassidic books: 1. Sefer Toldot Rabbeinu, about the Admor Rabbi Haim Eliezer Shapira of Munkacs, the Minchas Eliezer. Published by Rabbi David Kahane shoel u’bodek, with the approbation of the ...
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