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LOT 1:
Gaonus in Tzedakah v’Chesed for the Aniyei Eretz HaKodesh With a Berachah of Simchas Purim and Chayei Nachas — Autograph Letter of the Rebbe of Kalushitz ZTzok”l An autograph letter, entirely in the ksav yad of the Rebbe of Kalushitz ZY”A, bearing his signature. Written on the night of ...
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LOT 2:
Peshavarsk Dynasty: Lengthy Letter from the Holy R’ Yankele of Peshavarsk Zt”l, in the Handwriting of His Son, the Gaon and Tzaddik R’ Leibush of Peshavarsk Shlit"a A lengthy letter from the holy R’ Yankele of Peshavarsk Zt”l, emphasizing the importance of printing the holy writings of the ...
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LOT 3:
Kedushah Elyonah! – The Chumash ‘Mishneh Torah’ of the Holy Gaon R’ Itzikel of Peshavarsk ZYA”A Chumash Devarim with Megillas Koheles, Lublin [no year of printing]. On the title page is the hand signature of the holy gaon R’ Itzikel of Peshavarsk ZY"A The Chumash shows signs of use and ...
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LOT 4:
“You should have rachmanus on the כבוד of הרה״ק מסאטמאר שליט״א!” — the heilige R’ Itzikel of Peshvorsk זצוק״ל The Satmar mosdos polemic in Antwerp: A uniquely rare כתב יד קודש letter from the heilige R’ Itzikel of Peshvorsk זצוק״ל — truly one of a kind. A complete letter in his holy ...
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LOT 5:
Blessings for Children and Healing — A Halachic Tshuva in the Sacred Hand of the Satmar Rebbe, zt”l On the Obligation to Believe in the Power of Prayer — Caution Regarding Kabbalistic Works Printed from Manuscripts — Testimony of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz as Transmitted by His Son, Rabbi ...
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LOT 6:
“Veyizkeh le’hachlish es Amalek ve’es amo” — Reb Amram Blau in a heart-rending letter to the Satmar Rebbe about saving the kever haRambam in Teveria — Adar 1957 A heart-rending letter from the tzaddik and fighter of milchemes Hashem, Reb Amram Blau zt”l, dated 17 Adar 1957, addressed to ...
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LOT 7:
Rav Eliezer Silver seeks to include the Satmar Rebbe and Rav Yonasan Shteif on a Rabbinic Vaad to battle the Assimilationist Sects A handwritten letter from Rabbi Eliezer Silver zt”l, Av Beis Din of Cincinnati and President of the Agudas HaRabbonim of the United States and Canada, written in ...
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LOT 8:
Letter Regarding Pikuach Nefesh – From the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Michael Ber Weismandel ZT"L, Founder of Yeshivas Nitra and Author of Min HaMitzar – 1948 A letter concerning pikuach nefesh, addressed for the grandson of the well-known community leader Rabbi Yaakov Razenheim, from the holy ...
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LOT 9:
A Private, Urgent Letter Regarding a Shidduch — from the heilige R’ Eliezer Zusia of Skulen, 1927 A deeply personal and confidential letter in inyonei shidduchim, written by ksav yad kodsho of the gaon and tzaddik R’ Eliezer Zusia Portugal, Baal Noam Eliezer of Skulen, concerning a proposed ...
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LOT 10:
A Remarkable Letter on Shidduchim — from Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, author of Even HaEzel (1906) A thoughtful, content-rich letter on shidduchim from Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer to Rav Shlomo Carlebach, Av Beis Din of Lubeck. Rav Isser Zalman responds to Rav Shlomo’s inquiry regarding the family ...
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LOT 11:
Letter of the Gedolei HaDor — The Brisker Rav and Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, Baal Even HaEzel Regarding the Hadpasah of Nesivos HaKodesh on Zevachim — Yerushalayim, 1947 A remarkable letter from Maranan the Brisker Rav and Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer, Baal Even HaEzel, addressed to the gaon ...
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LOT 12:
“Lif’ol inyanim u’nisim nifla’im — hepech sidur kochos hateva” Nefesh HaChaim, Vilna–Grodna 1824 — First Edition Nefesh HaChaim, the yesod’dike sefer of deep inyonei taharas halev, deveikus, yirah, and the inner avodah of a Yid, authored by the gaon haEloki R’ Chaim of Volozhin, talmid ...
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LOT 13:
“...The Great Value of the Yeshivos and Their Talmidim, Given Over Heart and Soul to Torah…” R' Aharon Kotler — Kletsk, 1931–5691 A powerful rescue letter from Rav Aharon Kotler, written in Kletsk, 1931, to R' Yoseph Carlebach, Av Beis Din of Altona. The background is painfully familiar: ...
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LOT 14:
“...I Await and Yearn for Salvation” — A Letter from Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Leib Bloch of Telz Chol HaMoed Sukkos 1927–5688 A heartfelt rescue letter from Rav Yosef Leib Bloch, Av Beis Din of Telz and Rosh Yeshivah of the famed Telz Yeshivah, addressed to R' Yoseph Carlebach, Av Beis Din ...
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LOT 15:
A Handwritten Letter of Recommendation from Rav Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, Av Beis Din of Telz — Elul 1930 A warm, personal recommendation penned in the handwriting of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, son of Rav Yosef Leib, Av Beis Din of Telz — addressed to Rav Yosef Carlebach of Altona. The letter ...
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LOT 16:
“Kol Kiyumah B’Sakanah Ayumah” — A Plea to Save Slabodka Yeshiva --from the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Yitzchak Isaac Sher (1930) A powerful rescue letter from Rav Yitzchak Isaac Sher, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael – Slabodka, addressed to Rav Yosef Carlebach of Altona. He writes with ...
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LOT 17:
A Heartfelt Plea to Save Yeshivas Slabodka — in the Hand of Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein (Tishrei 1927) A deeply moving letter, entirely in the ksav yad of Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rosh Yeshivas Slabodka, addressed to Rav Yosef Carlebach, Av Beis Din of Altona, seeking urgent assistance ...
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LOT 18:
A Remarkable Letter from Maran R’ Shimon Shkop — Grodno, 1922 A warm and fascinating letter from the ksav yad of R’ Shimon Yehudah HaKohen Shkop, written to R’ Shlomo Carlebach, Av Beis Din of Lubeck, requesting assistance. In the letter, he recalls their earlier meeting at the simchah of R’ ...
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LOT 19:
“Saving the Ponevezh Yeshivah” — A Letter from the Ponevezher Rav, Berlin 1930 A heartfelt hishtadlus letter from Harav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, written in Berlin in 1930, to R' Yosef Carlebach, Rav of Altona. Rav Kahaneman opens with sincere thanks for helping secure one hundred dollars for ...
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LOT 20:
A Letter of Bracha for the New Rav of Altona — from Rav Avraham Kalmanowitz-Av Beis Din of Rakov Rosh Yehsiva of Mir (1925) A warm, dignified letter sent on the occasion of Rav Yosef Carlebach’s appointment as Rav of Altona — together with congratulations on the birth of his son — written by ...
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LOT 21:
“שחוטי חוץ” — A Halachic Letter from Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski A fully handwritten, signed halachic letter from Maran Rav Chaim Ozer, dated 1938–5698, addressed to a shochet in Australia. The background is striking. At the request of a meat merchant, this shochet had exported large ...
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LOT 22:
“LeChaletz HaYeshivah MiMatzavah HaKasheh” A Rescue Letter from Maran the Chafetz Chaim — 1927 A rescue letter dated 4 Menachem Av 5687 (1927), written by the Maran, the Sar HaTorah v’HaMussar of Klal Yisrael Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan ZYA”A of Radin-the Chafetz Chaim. Addressed to the ...
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LOT 23:
“…Ha’inyan ha’niskav shel chizuk haTorah haKedoshah…” A letter from the Sar HaTorah R’ Yitzchok Elchonon of Kovno — 1888 A letter on behalf of hachasakas haTorah, from the ksav yad of Maran R’ Yitzchok Elchonon Spektor, Av Beis Din of Kovno, addressed to the gaon R’ Zechariah Lipschitz of ...
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LOT 24:
A Warm Hishtadlus Letter from the Kovner Rav A beautiful letter of hishtadlus dated 12 Tishrei 1918, from the gaon Rabbi Avraham Dovber Kahana Shapira, Rav of Kovno, to R' Alexander Carlebach, son of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach of Lubeck. Rav Shapira writes with warmth and derech eretz, speaking ...
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LOT 25:
Letter of Warning and Rescue! From Maran HaGaon Rabbi Meir Shapiro, Rosh Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin – Lublin 1934 Letter from Maran HaGaon Rabbi Meir Shapiro zt”l, Rosh Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, to his relative Rabbi Yosef [Aharon Schor], Av Beis Din of Hrubeshov. In the letter, the Gaon ...
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LOT 26:
"ודי בזיון וחרפות יהיה בשביל היהדות החרדית כולה" A letter from R’ Meir Shapiro for the completion of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin — 1925 A heartfelt letter from the ksav yad of R’ Meir Shapiro, Av Beis Din and Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, addressed to R’ Yosef Carlebach, asking him ...
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LOT 27:
A Strong Letter Against Going to the Courts of the Zionists – From the ‘Tschabiner Rav’ ZYA”A, Teves 1958 A forceful letter against going to the civil courts of the Zionists, from the Gaon HaAdir Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld, the Tschabiner Rav ZYA”A – Teves 5718. The Gaon writes somewhat in ...
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LOT 28:
A Letter from the Gaon R’ Eliyahu Chaim Meisel, Av Beis Din of Lodz — 1894 A warm letter from the ksav yad of the renowned gaon R’ Eliyahu Chaim Meisel, Av Beis Din of Lodz, addressed to the gaon R’ Yisroel Yehonason Yerushalimski, Av Beis Din of Orla — a nephew of the writer. Dated 2 Sivan ...
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LOT 29:
A Teshuvah LeHalachah from the Gaon, the Aruch LaNer — Altona, 1865 An halachic responsum from the famed gaon R’ Yaakov Ettlinger, Baal Aruch LaNer, regarding dinei taharah, addressed to the gaon R’ Yitzchok Dov Bamberger, the Würzburger Rav. Written in Altona, 20 Elul 1865. The body of the ...
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LOT 30:
Hesped for Nashim Tzidkaniyos — In the Ksav Yad of the Gaon, Baal Tiferes Yisroel — 1842 A hesped for Nashim Tzidkaniyos , written in Lashon Kodesh and in Ashkenaz (in Hebrew letters), in the ksav yad of the gaon R’ Yisroel Lipschitz, Baal Tiferes Yisroel on Mishnayos. At the head of the ...
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LOT 31:
Kuntres Drushos from the rDerashos from the Gaon R’ Yitzchok Bernays of Hamburg — Rav Muvhak of R’ Shamshon Raphael Hirsch--Unpublished! An autograph manuscript, filled with derashos penned at different times, written in the distinct style and lashon of one of the towering gedolim of ...
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LOT 32:
Kuntres Tefillos — Minhag Ashkenaz for the Chazzan and Shatz, Written on Klaf — 1727 A remarkable siddur-kuntres prepared for the chazzan ha’korei ba’bimah, written in beautiful Ashkenazi ksav on klaf by the sofer R’ Zelig Asher b”r Yehoshua, dated 1727. The kuntres opens with the berachah ...
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LOT 33:
“Kol Ha’Omran Hu Ben Olam HaBa U’Mishtaker Elef Zehuvim” Seder Me’ah Brachos — Amsterdam 1687 (תמ״ז) Seder Brachos (Me’ah Brachos), issued by R’ Binyamin Shneur Godines, with a Ladino/Spanish translation drawn from the manuscripts of R’ Yitzchak ben Matisyahu Abuhav, with additions. ...
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LOT 34:
Sefer HaKavanos of the Arizal — Venice 1620 – First Edition — Printed in the Year of the Petirah of Rabbeinu the Maharchu ZY”A Sefer HaKavanos — sodas ha’tefillah and kavanos al pi kabbalah and the minhagim of Rabbeinu Yitzchak Luria, the Arizal — arranged and prepared for print by the ...
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LOT 35:
Kodesh HaKodoshim — The Siddur HaAri of R’ Tzvi Meir HaKohen Rabinowitz of Radomsk With Hagahos in His Ksav Yad Siddur HaAri (Lvov 1866), arranged by the mekubal R’ Shabsai of Rashkov, among the talmidim of the Baal Shem Tov. This siddur was especially cherished by many of the early ...
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LOT 36:
For the First Time — The Holy Signature of the Tiferes Shlomo ZYA”A On a Hesped for Maran the Chavos Daas — First Edition Sefer Avel Yachid — a hesped on the petirah of Rabbi Yaakov of Lisa ZT”l, author of the Chavos Daas and Nesivos HaMishpat — delivered in 1831 by R’ Avraham Dov Berish ...
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LOT 37:
“Ein Tefillaso Chozeres Reikam” — Siddur HaShlah, Amsterdam 1742 Important Second Edition of Shaar HaShamayim! Siddur Shaar HaShamayim, with the peirush of R’ Yeshayah ben R’ Avraham HaLevi Horowitz — the Shlah HaKadosh — according to the minhag of Poland, Reisin, Lita, and Moravia. ...
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LOT 38:
A Sacred Treasure — The Satmar Rebbe’s Personal Yaavetz Siddur A rare and deeply revered siddur used for over a decade by the Rebbe — the towering leader of Hungarian Jewry, whose tefillos melted hearts and awakened an entire generation to avodas Hashem. This is the famed Siddur Beis Yaakov ...
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LOT 39:
Tikkun Leil Shavuos, Slavita 1820 — in Splendid Condition Seder Tikkun Leil Shavuos and Hoshana Rabbah — arranged al pi ha’seder of the Shelah and the kavanos haShemos from the Arizal. Printed with exceptional beauty and hiddur in the holy press of Slavuta, by the heilige R’ Moshe Shapiro ...
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LOT 40:
Nevi’im Rishonim u’Acharonim u’Kesuvim — Zhitomir 1856–1857 Nevi’im Rishonim, Nevi’im Acharonim, and Kesuvim — with the classic commentaries Metzudas Dovid and Metzudas Tzion , and additional mefarshim. Printed in the renowned Zitomir press of R’ Aryeh Leib, grandson of the Rav of Slavita ...
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LOT 41:
Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — Zitomyr, 1854 A machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, according to the minhag of Reisin, Lita, Polin, Piem, and Mehrin, with a Hebrew-Teitsch (Yiddish) translation. Printed by R’ Chanina Lipa and R’ Yehoshua Heshel Shapira in Zitomyr, 1854 — ...
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LOT 42:
Machzor for Shalosh Regalim – Zhitomir 1858 Machzor for the Shalosh Regalim, Part II, according to the minhag of Reisin, Lita, Polin, Piem, and Mehrin, with a Hebrew-Teitsch (Yiddish) translation. Printed by R’ Chanina Lipa and R’ Yehoshua Heshel Shapira in Zhitomir , 1858 — from the ...
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LOT 43:
Shishah Sidrei Mishnah, with Tosafos Chadashim — Zytomyr 1851–1861 A complete six-volume set of Mishnayos printed by the famed press of the grandchildren of the Slavuta printers in Zytomyr. Four Sedarim (1851): Zeraim, Moed, Nashim, Nezikin — with Tosafos Yom Tov, Rabbeinu Ovadiah of ...
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LOT 44:
Yad HaChazakah of the Rambam — Venice 1550–1551 The Edition Entangled in the Feud that Led to the Burning of the Talmud Rambam, Sefer Yad HaChazakah, chelek sheini, on the seder Hafla’ah and Shoftim, together with the Maggid Mishneh, Migdal Oz, and the hagahos of the Maharam of Padua. ...
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LOT 45:
Beis Yosef — Choshen Mishpat, Sabbioneta 1559 First Edition — With Early Italian Hagahos and Censor Restorations Beis Yosef on Tur Choshen Mishpat, by Rabbeinu Yosef Karo ZY”A. Printed in Sabbioneta, 1559 — first edition. On the title page appears an early Italian ksav yad inscription: ...
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LOT 46:
A Cry from Chevron — The Shlichus of the Chid”a Livorno, 1775 — a unique a single-leaf proclamation A printed כרוז issued on behalf of the Jewish community of Chevron, following a terrible libel by the local ruler after his son fell into a Jewish outhouse and died. The community was placed ...
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LOT 47:
“אמנם הכל תלוי במזל” — A Tzedakah Letter from the Grandson of the Pnei Yehoshua (1794) A rare letter of recommendation and appeal for assistance, written by Rabbi Yissachar Berish Bernstein, Av Beis Din of Hanover — son of the gaon R’ Aryeh Leib, author of Pnei Aryeh, and grandson of the ...
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LOT 48:
Pulmus HaBitul! “Ve’Heitev Charah Li Al Zeh” —Autograph Letter of the Gaon Yisroel, the Shoel U’Meishiv ZY”A A letter addressed to the gaon R’ Yehoshua Nussbaum, Dayan of Zikov, regarding the halachic question whether mei ha’lishah or chittin mechumatzin may be counted toward the cheshbon of ...
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LOT 49:
Shu”t Geonei Basrai — Turka, 1764, First Edition With the signature of the Beis Meir Shu”t Geonei Basrai, a collection of teshuvos from leading Acharonim — among them the Sma, the Bach, Tosafos Yom Tov, and others. Printed in Turka, 1764 — first edition. On the leaf before the title page ...
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LOT 50:
Noda BiYehudah — First Edition (Tinyana) Inscribed by the Author’s Son R’ Shmuel Landau, with Extensive Hagahos of the Mechaber’s Talmid R’ Mordechai Ber of Yanikov Shu”t Noda BiYehudah, Tinyana, two parts — teshuvos of the gaon R’ Yechezkel Segal HaLevi Landau, Av Beis Din of Prague. ...
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