Auction 57
By Moreshet
Sep 14, 2022
Harav Kook Street 10 Bnei Brak, Israel
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LOT 206:

Volume with 7 important books, most first editions, (some rare). One copy is attributed to Rabbi Simcha Bamberger.

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Volume with 7 important books, most first editions, (some rare). One copy is attributed to Rabbi Simcha Bamberger.

1. Viku’ach Al HaAhava (A Debate over Love), an enriching book by Rabbi Don Yitzhak Abravanel. First Hebrew edition—by the Chevrat Mekitzei Nirdamim, Lik 1871. 15 pages, 96 leaves (maybe missing one leaf from the preliminary leaves before the content of the work).

2. Gilgulei Neshamot by the Rema of Fano, with additions “Meir Ayin” by (and published by) the Admor Rabbi Yerucham Meir Leiner of Izhbitza. Lublin 1907.

3. Yesod Olam, an ancient and foundational work on halachot of calculating leap years and doing kiddush hachodesh, by Rabbi Yitzhak ben Yosef HaYisraeli, a student of the Rosh. Printed in Berlin 1777. Missing the title page and maybe a little more. Housed in the NLI’s Rare Books section. Contains two folded charts/sketches.

4. Ma’amar Yekavu HaMayim, a philosophical article on the creation of the world and on the nature of water and the bodies of water. By Rabbi Shmuel ben Yehuda ibn Tivon, one of the Rishonim. First edition Pressburg 1837. Missing the title page and a number of leaves from the beginning.

5. Even Bachen, droshim from Rabbi Natan Chaim Sohn, Av Beit Din of Pren. First edition, Krotshin 11842. Approbations from Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Ettinger of Berlin and more.

6. Emet HaKabbalah, “will open one’s eyes to proper kabbalah particularly on chazal’s story of the 4 sons during the Haggadah, in a long, broad, deep manner…copied from an ancient manuscript…and edited nicely…the name of the compiler was lost…it appears to be especially ancient”. First (only?) edition, Warsaw 1877. Catalogued in the NLI’s Rare Books section. Otzer HaHaggadot 1477. Brittle paper.


Various conditions, bound together, the front binding is detached, no spine, otherwise not checked thoroughly for missing leaves.


 handwritten by Rabbi Simcha (Simon) Bamberger of Aschaffenburg, son of Rabbi Yitzhak Dov Bamberger of Wurzburg, and father of Rabbi Yitzhak Sekel Bamberger, the district rabbi of Bad-Kissingen (Bavaria). 


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