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Feb 18, 2025
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![Imrei Shabbat, on train travel on Shabbat, by R. Chaim Yaakov Feinstein. Cracow[-Jerusalem]: Yosef Fisher and [Y. D. Frumk](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale101/253_1.jpg "Imrei Shabbat (Regarding Train Travel on Shabbat) – Cracow-Jerusalem,")
![Imrei Shabbat, on train travel on Shabbat, by R. Chaim Yaakov Feinstein. Cracow[-Jerusalem]: Yosef Fisher and [Y. D. Frumk](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale101/253_2.jpg "Imrei Shabbat (Regarding Train Travel on Shabbat) – Cracow-Jerusalem,")
Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Imrei Shabbat, on train travel on Shabbat, by R. Chaim Yaakov Feinstein. Cracow[-Jerusalem]: Yosef Fisher and [Y. D. Frumkin], 1889. Second edition.
Expanded edition of the first edition printed in Calcutta, 1874. Includes new proofs, laws of raisin wine, tithing of income, and short works Torat Imecha, and Mashbit Milchamot on the Jews of Cochin, India, and Chok HaShemitah.
On endpaper, dedication by author in neat square script, followed by a request to contribute to the expenses of publication in Ashkenazic cursive script, with the address (in Latin characters) and the author's stamp.
The author,
R. Chaim Yaakov HaKohen Feinstein, an emissary of Safed (1840-1901), immigrated at a young age from Jassy to Safed where he was one of the leading Torah scholars. He traveled as an emissary to Yemen, India and various other lands.
R. Chaim Yaakov HaKohen Feinstein, an emissary of Safed (1840-1901), immigrated at a young age from Jassy to Safed where he was one of the leading Torah scholars. He traveled as an emissary to Yemen, India and various other lands.
[6], 88, [3] leaves. Title page printed twice. 15.5 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Fair-good condition. Stains. Small tears and open tears to margins of some leaves. New leather binding.
The majority of the book was printed in Cracow, while only leaves [3]-[4] and the last three leaves were printed in Jerusalem.
Sh. Halevy, No. 640.
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Kol HaTor, "telling of the events and news in the four holy cities", published by Aharon Löwy. Jerusalem: [Zichron Shlomo], Tamuz 1889. Year 1, issue 3.
The present issue contains a description of the different communities of Jerusalem and their institutions, the new neighborhoods in the city, and a eulogy for R. Chaim Elazar Wax by R. Yaakov Orenstein of Jerusalem.
8 pages. 20.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Tears and light damage. All leaves restored with tissue paper on both sides. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 678 (who hadn't seen the book and recorded it based on Friedberg). The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book (entry 000314796) records the book based on a photocopy, noting that they had not seen either of the first two issues and doubted whether any more had been printed). The NLI catalog also contains a photocopy, of this issue only.
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![Divrei Mordechai, on settling the Land of Israel and more, by R. Mordechai Diskin. Jerusalem: [Frumkin, 1889]. First editi](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale101/255.jpg "Divrei Mordechai – On Settling the Land of Israel – Jerusalem, 1889 –")
Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Divrei Mordechai, on settling the Land of Israel and more, by R. Mordechai Diskin. Jerusalem: [Frumkin, 1889]. First edition.
The author, R. Mordechai Diskin of Grodno (described on the title page as a farmer of Petach Tikva), attempts to alleviate the anger of the farmers of moshavot against Baron Rothschild.
80 pages. Approx. 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, including small open tear to title page and open tears to last leaf, affecting title frame and text, repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 650.
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Shaar Yekara DeChaim, eulogy for R. Samson Raphael Hirsch, by R. Chaim Eliezer Hausdorf. Jerusalem: Sh. HaLevi Zuckerman and partners, [1889].
The eulogy was delivered by R. Chaim Eliezer Hausdorf (a rabbi of Jerusalem, son of R. Azriel Zelig Hausdorf) in the Ahavat Tzion Beit Midrash in Jerusalem, on 12th Shevat 1889.
Stamps on title page: "Michael Shaul Hausdorf", "Aharon Simchah Blumenthal".
10 pages. 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Small marginal tears to several leaves. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 663.
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Masa Meron VeArei HaGalil, travelogue to the Upper and Lower Galilee by R. Menachem Mendel Rubin. [Jerusalem: Moshe Lilenthal, 1889].
Printed without a title page.
Travelogue of the author's three-week-long trip from Jerusalem to the festival of R. Shimon bar Yochai in Meron on Lag BaOmer.
Small pieces of paper with corrections or deletions mounted on text in several places. Handwritten corrections to text on several leaves.
The author,
R. Menachem Mendel Rubin (ca. 1850-1915), a leader of the Chassidic community in Jerusalem. Son of R. Shmuel Aharon Rubin, Rabbi of Korczyna (ca. 1823-1877).
R. Menachem Mendel Rubin (ca. 1850-1915), a leader of the Chassidic community in Jerusalem. Son of R. Shmuel Aharon Rubin, Rabbi of Korczyna (ca. 1823-1877).
[13] leaves. 19.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Tears and damage to several leaves, affecting text. Binding holes to inner margins. New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 670 (printing details after Sh. Halevy).
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Pirkei Heichalot, by the Tannaim R. Yishmael the High Priest and R. Akiva, and Testament of Naftali son of Jacob to his sons, published for the first time from an ancient manuscript by R. Shlomo Aharon Wertheimer. Jerusalem: [Zichron Shlomo, established by the brothers Löwy, 1889].
On front endpaper and title page, stamps (very blurred) of R. Yechezkel Sarna.
R. Yechezkel Sarna, dean of Hebron yeshiva (1889-1969), a leading Torah and Musar scholar. He was a close disciple of the Alter of Slabodka, and son-in-law of R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein, dean of the Knesset Yisrael yeshiva in Slabodka. R. Yechezkel Sarna was a founder of the Hebron branch of the yeshiva in 1925, and headed it for decades after it relocated to Jerusalem.
Additional stamp on title page: "Eliyahu son of R. Aharon HaKohen, America".
[1], 3-13 leaves. 19.5 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Fair condition. Stains. Wear. Tears and open tears to title page and other leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper (covering parts of text of printing details on title page). Old binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 674.
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Volume with several books printed in Jerusalem in the 1880s-1900s:
• Knesset Mordechai, selected laws arranged according to the order of the Talmud, with Divrei Mordechai, responsa, by R. Mordechai Luria. Jerusalem, 1890. Second edition.
Sh. Halevy, No. 712.
Stamp on title page of Knesset Mordechai: "Shimon son of R. Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, author of Lev HaIvri, in Jerusalem".
• Re'eh Chaim with Tefillat Chanah, Part II of Techunat HaAretz, encouragement for settlement of Eretz Israel and mitzvot for women, with Yiddish translation, by R. Yehudah Leib Zeitlin. Jerusalem, 1889.
Sh. Halevy, No. 679.
• Tefillah LeMoshe, prayer authored by R. Moshe Sofer in Pressburg during the 1832 cholera epidemic, with additions. Jerusalem, [1903].
Between Re'eh Chaim and Tefillah LeMoshe is bound Birchot Menachem, various prayers in Yiddish by R. Gershon Shapiro. [Lviv, ca. 1860s]. Lacking beginning.
Knesset Mordechai: 80 leaves. Divrei Mordechai: 22 leaves. Re'eh Chaim: [4], 46 leaves. Does not contain [4] leaves of approbations and pre-subscribers from England and Jerusalem. Three of these leaves are also lacking in the copy recorded in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. Birchot Menachem: 38 leaves. Tefillah LeMoshe: 10 leaves. Approx. 18 cm. Dry, brittle paper of some leaves in first book. Good to good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears to several leaves. New binding with early leather spine. Damage to spine.
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![Printed booklet, Shanah Tovah blessing by printer Avraham Moshe Lunz. Jerusalem: printer not indicated, [1888].
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![Printed booklet, Shanah Tovah blessing by printer Avraham Moshe Lunz. Jerusalem: printer not indicated, [1888].
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Printed booklet, Shanah Tovah blessing by printer Avraham Moshe Lunz. Jerusalem: printer not indicated, [1888].
Title frame and some words on title page printed in gilt ink (apparently the entire title page was printed in gilt ink, some of which faded).
Pages 2-3 detail the topics of articles scheduled to appear in the next volume of the Yerushalayim annual edited by Lunz.
4 pages. 20 cm. Good condition. Light stains. New binding.
Especially rare booklet, not documented by Sh. Halevy and bibliographically unknown.
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![Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov yeshiva. Jerusalem: [Y. D. Frumkin, 1888].
Printed booklet, filled out by hand](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale101/261_1.jpg "Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov Yeshiva – Jerusalem, 1888 – Signatu")
![Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov yeshiva. Jerusalem: [Y. D. Frumkin, 1888].
Printed booklet, filled out by hand](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale101/261_2.jpg "Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov Yeshiva – Jerusalem, 1888 – Signatu")
![Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov yeshiva. Jerusalem: [Y. D. Frumkin, 1888].
Printed booklet, filled out by hand](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale101/261_3.jpg "Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov Yeshiva – Jerusalem, 1888 – Signatu")
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Statutes of Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov yeshiva. Jerusalem: [Y. D. Frumkin, 1888].
Printed booklet, filled out by hand, with signatures and stamps.
Contains statutes of the Beit Meir UBeit Yaakov yeshiva founded in Meah Shearim in honor of R. Meir Auerbach, and letters of recommendation to donate to the yeshiva from many rabbis.
On the verso of the title page appear the signatures in the handwriting of R. Yisrael Yaakov Segal Rabbi of Płońsk, R. Aharon son of R. Yaakov Yehuda Leib Löwy, and R. Menachem Natan Auerbach son of R. Shlomo Rabbi of Luntschitz.
On the final page appear the signatures of the three rabbis mentioned above and additional signatures (mostly from members of the Löwy and Baharan families): R. Avraham Dayan of Przasnysz, R. Mordechai Levi, R. "Avraham Eliezer Levi", R. Avraham Baharan, R. Asher Leizer Löwy, R. Yisrael Chaim, and R. Menachem Mendel son of R. Yehuda David.
Many stamps of R. ""Yitzchak Yosef Chazan (1842-1928), author of "Siach Yitzchak" (Poltava, 1913), son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Płock.
16 pages. 17.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Worming and open tears, affecting text, repaired with paper filling. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 634 (printer named after Sh. Halevy).
Rare. To the best of our knowledge, this book has not previously been put up for auction.
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Statutes of the Doresh Tzion society and the Ohel Torah yeshiva, Statuten der Verein "Doresch-Lezion u. Jeschiwath "Ohel-Thora". Jerusalem: printer not indicated, [1888].
14, [2] pages. Approx. 16 cm. Dry paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears, including open tears to inner margins of leaves, repaired with paper filling. Worming to last leaf, slightly affecting text. Stamps. New binding.
Rare. Not documented by Sh. Halevy or in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Statutes and Practices of the Derech HaChaim Society and gemach in the Or HaChaim yeshiva in Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Avraham Moshe Lunz, 1889. Hebrew and Yiddish.
On verso of title page (in Hebrew) and last page (in Yiddish) appears a printed form for membership in the society, with the details of the new member filled in by hand, and with signatures of the heads of the society and the society's stamp (date and details identical on both pages).
[7], 4-19, [1] pages. Approx. 18 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including large dark stains to first leaves, affecting text and the heading on title page. Open tears, slightly affecting text, repaired with paper filling. All leaves coated with paper on both sides. Bottom of verso of title page appears to contain a reversed photocopy of last page of book (including filled-in handwriting), on a dark background (originally this part of the verso of the title page was left blank). New binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 656.
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Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
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Hanhagot VeTakanot Beit HaMidrash Doresh Tzion, Practices and Ordinances of the Doresh Tzion Beit Midrash and its history from its founding (1866) to the present. Jerusalem: Avraham Moshe Luncz, 1889. Hebrew, with sections in English, German and French.
Includes French title page: Reglements et statuts de l'École Doresch Zion.
The book contains a historical survey of the founding, events and activities of the Beit Midrash, its leadership, and its ordinances and membership rights.
The second part of the book contains documentation of famous rabbis and philanthropists who visited and devoted attention to the yeshiva's affairs (some sections of this part are in French, English, and German).
[1], 16, [1] pages. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 654.
Exceptionally rare edition (Sh. Halevy did not see a copy, and documented it based on Friedberg). Not documented in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book. The NLI catalog contains a photocopy.
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