Subasta 105: Rabbinic Autograph Letters & Passover Haggadot.
Por Kestenbaum & Company
4.4.24
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, Estados Unidos

The auction commences with a first edition of the Segulah-book "Raziel HaMalach" (Lot 1); followed by books that were owned by significant rabbis: 


R. Shlomo Ganzfried (Lot 5); The Aruch Hashulchan (Lot 6); R. Meir Shapira of Lublin (Lot 68)


The most valuable lot offered is a Sefer that was personally owned by, and has a long personal inscription in the hand of, R. Chaim Volozhiner (Lot 4).


The auction contains many excellent offerings of Autograph Letters including:


The first Rebbe of Sadigura, R. Avraham Ya'akov (Lot 13); The Chofetz Chaim (Lots 17-20); The Ohr Same’ach (Lot 41); The Kesav Sofer (Lot 58); Reb Chaim Brisker (Lot 59); The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and her sister (Lots 50-51); and dozens more of such letters.


Autograph manuscripts of note are those from R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov (Lot 9A); The Tiferes Yisroel (Lot 40); and a 14th-century Ramba'n manuscript (Lot 9).


As per annual tradition, this pre-Pesach auction features a wide selection of Passover Hagadot:


The rare, the exotic and the curious; with examples from 1545 through until 2008.


Among particularly Early examples: Lot 87 (Venice, 1545); Lot 88 (Riva di Trento, 1561) and Lot 95 (Salonika, 1569).


Beautifully illustrated Hagadoth include: Lot 93 (Venice, 1740); Lot 85 (India, 1874) and Lot 115 (The Avner Moriah Hagadah).


Historically significant Hagadoth include Lot 72 (American/Canadian/Anglo-related) and many examples from Germany, India, Jerusalem; as well as first edition Hagadah commentaries by the Vilna Gaon (Lot 96), R. Ya'akov Emden (Lot 78); and ending with several facsimile editions. 



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La subasta ha concluído

LOTE 13:

AVRAHAM YA’AKOV OF SADIGURA.

Vendido por: $14 000
Precio inicial:
$ 10 000
Precio estimado :
$12 000 - $18 000
Comisión de la casa de subasta: 25%
IVA: 8.875% IVA sobre el precio total del lote y la comisión
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AVRAHAM YA’AKOV OF SADIGURA.

The First Sadigura Rebbe, (1820-83). Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on behalf of R. Yoseph Vitashkes, who had fallen upon hard times.


The Rebbe here appoints R. Meir Babich and R. Michel Schochet to help raise funds to assist their fellow Chossid.


One page. Verso backed with paper tape.

Sadigura, 26th Teveth, 1878.


The patriarch of the present dynasties of Sadigura and Boyan. Son of R. Yisrael of Ruzhyn (1796-1850), one of the great Chassidic Rebbes of the 19th century, and son-in-law of R. Aharon of Karlin (the Beis Aharon), R. Avraham Ya’akov Friedman (1820-83) was the first Admo’r of Sadigura.