Auction 92
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Feb 18, 2021
USA
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205
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LOT 117:
SHAPIRA, CHAIM ELAZAR
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Sold for: $3,000
Start price:
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2,200
Estimated price:
$3,000 - $5,000
Auction house commission: 25%
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SHAPIRA, CHAIM ELAZAR
(“The Minchas Eluzur, ” 1872-1937). Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew on letterhead to Rabbi Yehoshua Baumol.
Semicha award, testifying to the Rabbi’s great learning and praising his deep-seated piety.
One page. Small tears repaired on verso affecting two words. 8vo.
Munkács: 12th Tamuz 1921
R. Chaim Elazar Shapira of Munkacz (1872-1937) was the son of the Darchei Teshuva (R. Tzvi Hirsch Spira) and a leading Hungarian Admor prior to World War II. Known for profound rabbinic scholarship, he utilized his fiery personality to zealously fight against modernizing influence and assimilation. R. Yehoshua Baumol (1880-1948) moved to the United States, where he was appointed rabbi of Congregation Adas Jeshurun in Williamsburg. A respected posek, he was the authority to whom R. Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz turned for a halachic ruling in regard to the questionable influence in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas of R. Chaim Avraham Dov Ber Levine HaCohen ("The Malach.") See Responsa Emek Halacha, Vol II, resp. no. 28. Rabbi Baumol’s grandson was the late Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University.
