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LOT 1:
Glory of the Italian Printing Presses! The First Machzor that was Printed with a Commentary: Two Sections of the Machzor per the Custom of Rome, First Edition of Kimcha DeAvishuna and the Sforno - Bologna, 1540. Machzor per the Custom of Rome, First Edition of two important commentaries: Kimcha ...
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LOT 2:
Valuable Treasure! Hundreds of Glosses Handwritten by the Italian Geonim Rabbi Shneur Ibn Danan and Rabbi Pinchas Anav on the Sheets of a Complete and Rare Set of the Sefer Yesod Rav Alfas - First Edition of Shiltei Hagiborim Sabbioneta, 1554-1555. Exalted discovery more than 250 years old! ...
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LOT 3:
Rare! She'elot Lehachacham Rabbi Shaul Hacohen with Commentaries on Moreh Nevochim - Single Edition Venice, 1574. "She'elot Lehachacham Rabbi Shaul Hacohen, questions to the sage Rabbi Shaul Hacohen asked by the Divine philosopher Don Yitzchak Abarbanel, a commentary on some chapters of Moreh ...
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LOT 4:
Chavatzelet Hasharon - Commentary by Rabbeinu the Alshich Hakadosh on Sefer Daniel - Printed in the Author's Lifetime! Venice, 1591. Chavatzelet Hasharon - commentary on Sefer Daniel with the text - by Rabbeinu Moshe Alshich - Juan di Gara Press - Venice, 1591 - second edition in the author's ...
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LOT 5:
Volume with Two Books by Rabbi Shmuel Hagiz of Fes: Mevakesh Hashem / Devar Shmuel - Juan di Gara Press - First Edition in the Author's Lifetime Venice, 1596. Sefer Mevakesh Hashem- sermons on Seder Parashiyot HaTorah - by Rabbi Shmuel Hagiz of Fes (Morocco) - Juan di Gara Press - Venice, 1596 ...
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LOT 6:
Fine Copy with All (!) the Rare Indices Leaves which are Bibliographically Not Listed: Midrash Shmuel on Pirkei Avot by Rabbi Shmuel di Uzeda - Third Edition in the Author's Lifetime Venice, 1600. Sefer Midrash Shmuel, elucidation on Pirkei Avot, with the text and Rashi's commentary, by the ...
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LOT 7:
Fine Copy in an Ancient Leather Binding: Selichot per the Custom of the Ashkenazim of Italy - Venice, 1600. "Selichot with fine commentaries compiled and edited per the custom of the Ashkenazic community [of Italy]... and at its beginning there is a Viduy and some Selichot and Akeidot and ...
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LOT 8:
Rare Treasure! Fine Complete Set in Ancient Wooden and Leather Bindings! Talmud Bavli Printed by Emanuel Benvenisti - Amsterdam, 1644-1648. Complete set of the Talmud Bavli, "with Rashi's commentary and Tosfot and Piskei Tosfot and Rabbeinu Asher and the Rambam's commentary on the ...
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LOT 9:
The First Bible in Yiddish - Amsterdam, 1676-1679 with the Leaf with the Table of Haftarot and the Metaken's Apology. Torah Nevi'im and Ketuvim in Yiddish - Amsterdam, 1676-1679. The first Bible in the world that was printed entirely in Yiddish. In addition, the first Yiddish translation of ...
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LOT 10:
Chamisha Chumshei Torah Tikkun Sofrim - Amsterdam, 1726. Chamisha Chumshei Torah "Tikkun Sofrim carefully edited... and to this are added Hagahot Or Torah [by Rabbi Menachem de LOnzano] in Amsterdam by the order of the philanthropists Chazan Shmuel Rodrigez Mendes, Moshe Tzarfati de Gerona ...
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LOT 11:
Rare! Seder Zera'im of the Talmud Published by Rabbeinu Yonasan Eibeschitz "Having being Allowed to Print Talmud Books" - Prague, 1728. "Seder Zera'im, Mishnayot of Seder Zera'im, with the commentary of Rabbeinu Moshe Bar Maimon and a commentary by the Gaon Rabbinu Shimshon and with the ...
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LOT 12:
Rare! Fine Copy in an Original Binding: Moshe Yedaber by Rabbi Moshe Yisrael Av Beit Din of Rhodes - First Edition Salonika, 1815. Sefer Moshe Yedaber, "Shut and Chidushei Dinim [al Seder the Rambam's Mishneh Torah]...by...Ram of Rhodes Rabbi Moshe Yisrael... edited by the author's son, the ...
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LOT 13:
Rare! First Time Auctioned: Ish Chayil, the History of the Gaon Rabbi Dov Berish Meisles Av Beis Din of Warsaw - Single Edition Krakow, 1871. Thin, extremely rare booklet. "Sefer Ish Chayil containing the history of the the Admor the Gaon Rabbi Dov Berish Meisles, who was Rav of Warsaw until his ...
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LOT 14:
First Edition of Two Works by the Mekubal Rabbi Natan Shapira: Matzat Shimurim and Mamar Yayin Hameshumar - Venice, 1660. Volume with two Kabbalistic masterpieces by the Mekubal Rabbi Natan Shapira HeYerushalmi, the son of Rabbi Reuven David "the excellent Dayan of Krakow", Winderman Press ...
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LOT 15:
An Important Sefer Yesod! Complete Set of the First Edition of the Noda BiYehuda Mahadura Kama and Mahadura Tanyana - Prague, 1776-1811 Copy of the Chasam Sofer's Disciples . This is an important Sefer Yesod, foundational in the Halachic world - complete set of the famed Shut books the Noda ...
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LOT 16:
Extremely Rare! First Edition of Likkutei Tehillim Known Today as Tehillim HaChida which is a Segulah for Refu'ah and Yehshu'ah - Willhelmsdorf, 1717. Sefer Likkutei Tehillim, alphabetized, חושו ואל תחוסו על כספיכם" וה' ברחמיו ימלא חסרונכם, וימלא בקשתכם, וינוח ברכה בבתיכם, אמן". The book is ...
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LOT 17:
Miniature Siddur - Fine Copy! Seder Chamesh Ta'aniyot - Amsterdam, 1740. Seder Chamesh Ta'aniyot, per the custom of the Sephardim, Tzom Gedalya, Assarah Betevet, Tzom [Ta'anit] Ester, the 17th of Tamuz and Tishah BeAv. Small format. The Press of Rabbi Avraham Atias, Amsterdam, 1740. 199, [1] ...
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LOT 18:
Masterpiece! First Time Auctioned! Complete and Elegant Copy: Siddur Tefillot Tikkun Ezra - Vienna, 1815. "Seder Tefillot Tikkun Ezra, including prayers for all year round... and Dinei Keri'ah and Yotzer for Arba Parashiyot... Hoshanot, Ma'aravot, Parashiyot, Yom Kippur Katan... and added to it ...
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LOT 19:
Fine Copy of a Rare Prayer Book with Interesting Ancient Ownership Signatures: Tefillat Yom Kippur Katan - Russia-Poland, ca. 1840. Tefillat Yom Kippur Katan, "on the fast on the eve of Rosh Chodesh after Minchah Gedolah, Talit and Tefillin are worn by Anshei Segulah. Printed in Hebrew and ...
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LOT 20:
Chemdat Segulah! Copy of Rabbeinu Hakadosh the Maharal Tzintz with Glosses: Abudraham - Amsterdam, 1726. Sefer Abudraham, "teachign us to pray... the complete Sage Rabbeinu David ben Rabbi Yosef Abudraham... I had an idea to reprint it in a small format so anyone could carry it with him. And we ...
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LOT 21:
Twofold Kedushah! First Edition of Sefer Peirot Genosar by Rabbeinu the Author of the Or Hachaim Hakadosh with Signatures of the Gaon Author of the Arugot Habosem and His Father - First Edition in the Author's Lifetime Amsterdam, 1742. Sefer Peirot Genosar - by Rabbeinu the Author of the Or ...
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LOT 22:
The Shelah HaKaddosh of the Gaon Rabbi Daniel Prusstitz Rosh Av Beit Din of Pressburg in the Period of the Chasam Sofer: Shnei Luchot Habrit - Frankfurt an der Oder, 1717. Sefer Shnei Luchot Habrit, the famed book by Rabbi Yeshaya Helci Horowitz who was known after this book as the Shelah ...
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LOT 23:
Sefer Luchot Edut the Work that was Written to Defend Rabbeinu Yonasan Eibeschitz during the Amulet Polemic with Rabbeinu the Yavetz - First Edition Altona, 1755. Sefer Luchot Edut, "in which it is written that most of the sages of the generation... admitted that false accusations were made ...
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LOT 24:
Rare! With the Opening Leaf with Photocopies of Letters: ULehatzdik Tzaddik Booklet - the Dispute between the Rashban Schück and the Levushei Mordechai of Mád - Single Edition, Sasfalau, 1912. ULehatzdik Tzaddik, a polemical booklet in Hebrew and German written by Rabbi Berachya Schück, the Rav ...
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LOT 25:
Letter of Kana'ut against the HaMizrachi - Handwritten on the Official Stationery of HaMizrachi (!!!) - Grosswardein, 1920. Decision of a meeting of rabbis against the HaMizrachi - handwritten on the official stationery of HaMizrachi in Grosswardein !!! - Grosswardein, 1920. Document with a ...
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LOT 26:
Letter of Protest to the Jewish Agency - Signed by Maran Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer and Additional Rabbis - Jerusalem, 1930. This is a terrible Chilul Dat that provokes much resentement - letter of protest to the Jewish Agency - hand-signed by the Geonim Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi ...
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LOT 27:
"We were Shocked to Hear about the Chilul Shabbat in the Country" Letters about the Affair of Chilul Shabbat during the Citrus Harvest Signed by the Chief Rabbis of Eretz Yisrael and Tel Aviv - Jerusalem, 1938 . Polemic - two letters about a meeting at the Rabbinate office - about Citrus harvest ...
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LOT 28:
Fascinating Letter of Protest from the Early Days of the State about the Secularization of Child Survivors of the Holocaust - Jerusalem, 1947. "Secularization of hundreds of children, orpans of Kedosheinu" - historical letter of protest by the Chief Rabbis of Erezt Yisrael - about the attempt ...
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LOT 29:
Rare and Early Broadside Depicting the Great Famine in Jerusalem in the Late 19th Century - Jerusalem, 1879. For in this year, there is almost no bread in all our land - Kol Kore Mih Yirpa Lach - rare broadside with a call for help addressed to Jews abroad - by the rabbis of the Ashkenazic and ...
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LOT 30:
Rare Original Broadside against HaEidah HaChareidit Issued by the Party of Rav Kook - Jerusalem, 1921. Beirur Devarim! - printed broadside issued by the City Committee of the Ashkenazic communities of Jerusalem - against HaEidah HaChareidit and Rabbi Reuven Shlomo Jungreis, following a ...
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LOT 31:
Extremely Rare Broadside! Emet MeEretz Titzmach - by the Gabaim of Kolel Munkatch Implying Embezzlement! - Jerusalem, 1923. Emet MeEretz Titzmach - printed broadside by the Gabaim of Kolel Munkatch of Jerusalem - for donors to the Kolel abroad - implying embezzlement! - Jerusalem, 1923 In their ...
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LOT 32:
Polemic! Kol Kore Betzeddek - Broadside Issued by the Vaad Haklali Ashkenazim and Prushim and Rabbi Shmuel Salant Echoing the Struggles of the Kolels - Jerusalem, 1891. "והם בונים במה לעצמם במה של חטאות ואשמות" - Kol Kore Betzeddek - early printed letter Issued by the Vaad Haklali of the ...
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LOT 33:
Hekdesh Document - Psak Din pertaining to an Estate Signed by the Sephardic and Ashkenazic Rabbis of Jerusalem - Jerusalem, 1921 . Interesting Shetar Beit Din - about a Hekdesh of the late Reb Dov Binyamin Zeidman - signed by the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Meir the Rishon LeZion, Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank ...
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LOT 34:
Interesting! The Last Will of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gurion woth Confirmation and Handwritten Siagnure of Maran Rav Kook from the Tiem He Was Rav of Jaffa and the Settlements - Jaffa, 1911. "למען אשר יצוה את בניו..." - lengthy will handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gurion, the son of Rabbi ...
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LOT 35:
Maran Rav Kook's Struggle for the Sanctity of the Shabbat in Kfar Yechezkel! Historical Kana'ut Letter Signed by Maran Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook - Jerusalem, 1930. "אנו מצדנו מכירים אותם... כגויים גמורים לכל דבריהם" (!!!) [we for our part, recognize them...as absolute Gentiles...] - ...
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LOT 36:
Interesting Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer - Jerusalem, 1942. Interesting and unusual letter of recommendation - by Maran the Gaon Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer , author of Even HaEzel, about the Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Diskin Av Beit Din of Pardes Chanah - ...
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LOT 37:
The Or Same'ach of Maran the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz with His Handwritten Signature and Glosses! Or Same'ach Two Sections - First Edition - Riga-Warsaw, 1910-1926. Two sections of the work Or Same'ach on the Rambam's Mishneh Torah by Rabbi Meir Simcha Hacohen of Dvinsk author of the ...
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LOT 38:
"The Rav the Author was Wrong about This..."!!! Sharp Gloss Handwritten by Maran the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz on the Book by Maran the Rosh Yeshiva Shlita. Sefer Bad Kodesh, "second section, containing Chidushim and Bei'urei Sugyot". The work by Maran the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh ...
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LOT 39:
Treasure: Dozens of Glosses on the Yerushalmi Handwritten by Maran the Rosh Yeshiva the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky - Not Published!. Set of the Talmud Yerushalmi, 7 volumes (of originally 8 volumes - volume VII is missing), published by Mifal Yerushalmi, Jerusalem, 1960. Stains and minor ...
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LOT 40:
Letter Handwritten and Signed by Maran the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Berlin to the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Zvi Halevi Av Beit Din of Jaffa - Jerusalem, 1912. "Had I thought so in advance, perhaps I would have exerted greater effort" - Fasinating letter with many humble expressions - by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim ...
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LOT 41:
"Since He is a Great and Important Man" Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Author of the Devar Avraham of Kovno about the Gaon Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Steinman - 1925. "It is appropriate to bring him close and respect him" - letter of recommendation by the famed gaon Rabbi Avraham Dober Kahana ...
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LOT 42:
Unique Letter by Maran the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky and His Wife!!! Addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Botchko and His Wife - 1932. It is truly a matter of Piku'ach Nefesh - letter handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky - with a lengthy addition handwritten by ...
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LOT 43:
Rare! Letter of Request for Accepting a Bachur into the Yeshiva - Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Guttman Mashgi'ach of the Ohel Torah Yeshiva of Baranovich -1932. Interesting letter handwritten and signed by the Tzaddik Gaon Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Guttman - Mashgi'ach of the Ohel Torah ...
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LOT 44:
"To Be One of the Gedolei Torah" Rare Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Nachum Baruch Ginzburg the Mekor Baruch - Janowa, 1937. Interesting letter - handwritten by the famed Gaon Rabbi Nachum Baruch Ginzburg author of the Mekor Baruch - addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Botchko ...
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LOT 45:
Fine Letter by the Students of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva of Montreux with the Signature of Maran the Gaon Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman - Montreux, 1937. Letter in fine scribal script - by doznes of students and teachers of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva of Montreux - addressed to their famed teachar ...
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LOT 46:
Touching Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Naftali Wasserman the Son of Maran the Kovetz Shi'urim to Maran the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky - Baranovich, 1938. "שדעת הר"מ דמיר... לדחות אחר מפניו" - rare letter by the Gaon Rabbi Naftali Binush Wasserma, the son of Maran the Gaon ...
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LOT 47:
Telz and Its Sages: Letter of Recommendation Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch the Rosh Yeshiva of Telz - 1940. "And he has already reached a superior level in sharpness and knowledge" - fine letter of recommendation - handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi ...
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LOT 48:
"For Two Hundred Years there has not been such an Iluy" Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Pogremansky - Extremely Rare!. Letter with important content - handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Pogremansky - addressed to his friend the Tzaddik Gaon Rabbi ...
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LOT 49:
Historical! Letter with a Cry for Help from the Detention Camp of Atlit - Handwritten and Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky - Atlit, 1941 . "כי יעשה כל אשר ביכולתו למהר יציאתנו לחרות" [That he shall do everything in his power to hasten our departure to freedom] - fascinating ...
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LOT 50:
"France is a Reckless Nation" Fascinating Letter Handwritten by Maran the Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky - Addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Botchko - Bern (Switzerland), 1947. But my heart trusts in Hashem - fine letter handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky - addressed ...
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