Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Contract pertaining to the property of Yeshua and Yehuda sons of Sa'id Elgamal (Gamliel). With the calligraphic signatures of the Maharitz and R. Salam son of R. Yosef Bashari.
R. Yichye son of R. Yosef Tzalach - the Maharitz (1715-1805), foremost Yemenite rabbi in the 18th century, and a leading halachic authority. He was the disciple of his grandfather Mori Tzalach, and of R. Aharon HaKohen Iraki, R. Yichye Iraki and R. David Mishreqi, author of "Shetilei Zeitim". At the age of 43, he was appointed chief rabbi and head of the Beit Din of all Yemenite communities, a position he held for more than 45 years. His authority was unequivocally accepted throughout Yemen, and to this day many Yemenite Jews adhere to his customs and rulings. He compiled the Tiklal siddur with the Etz Chaim commentary, and many halachic works: Zevach Toda and Shaarei Kedusha on the laws of shechita, Shaarei Tahara on the laws of niddah, Responsa Peulat Tzaddik, and other books of halachah, ethics and kabbalah.
The dayan R. Salam son of R. Yosef al-Bashari (Bashari; 1701-1771) was ordained in 1749, and served as dayan alongside R. Pinchas son of R. Shlomo Iraqi and the head of the Beit Din R. Saadia Qati'i. He later served as dayan in the Beit Din of the Maharitz. The Maharitz composed a lamentation upon his passing, which he recorded in the pinkas of the Sanaa Beit Din (R. Amram Korach, Saarat Teiman, Jerusalem 1954, p. 21).
Bir al-Azab is a neighborhood of Sanaa. The neighborhood was built after the Exile of Mawza in 1679, when the Jews were required to live outside of the city's walls (Encyclopedia LiKehillot Teiman, I, p. 35).
[1] leaf. Approx. 9 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor tears. Folding marks.
Judeo-Arabic monetary contract, pertaining to Salam son of Yichye Elgamal (Gamliel). With the calligraphic signatures of the Maharitz and R. Yichye son of R. R. Yichye son of R. Yosef Tzalach - the Maharitz (1715-1805), foremost Yemenite rabbi in the 18th century, and a leading halachic authority. He was the disciple of his grandfather Mori Tzalach, and of R. Aharon HaKohen Iraki, R. Yichye Iraki and R. David Mishreqi, author of "Shetilei Zeitim". At the age of 43, he was appointed chief rabbi and head of the Beit Din of all Yemenite communities, a position he held for more than 45 years. His authority was unequivocally accepted throughout Yemen, and to this day many Yemenite Jews adhere to his customs and rulings. He compiled the Tiklal siddur with the Etz Chaim commentary, and many halachic works: Zevach Toda and Shaarei Kedusha on the laws of shechita, Shaarei Tahara on the laws of niddah, Responsa Peulat Tzaddik, and other books of halachah, ethics and kabbalah.
R. Yichye son of R. David Mishreqi (1734-1809), founder of the Shami rite together with his father (the Shetilei Zeitim). He was appointed temporary dayan in 1785 and from 1795, served as permanent dayan in the Beit Din of the Maharitz. His novellae and rulings were published together with his father's novellae in Revid HaZahav.
[1] leaf. Approx. 8.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, tears and wear (not affecting text). Folding marks.
![Leaf handwritten by R. Shalom Shabazi, out of his composition Chemdat Yamim. [Yemen, 1653]. Bound inside a facsimile edition](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale81a-public/231.jpg "Leaf Handwritten by Rabbi Shalom Shabazi - From His Book Chemdat Yamim")
Bound inside a facsimile edition of the full manuscript of the composition. Jerusalem, 2007.
R. Shalom Shabazi (the Rashash; 1619-1695), a foremost Yemenite poet and leading Torah scholar who wrote Midrash Chemdat Yamim on the Torah among other compositions. The Midrash is a commentary comprising homiletics, philosophy and kabbalistic thoughts, compiled from various sources (including selections from sources unknown in our times).
[2] leaves, [1] manuscript leaf, [264] facsimile leaves. 18.5 cm. Facsimile in good condition. Original manuscript leaf in good-fair condition. Stains. Worming, repaired with paper. Margins folded. Elegant leather binding. Slipcased.
Copy no. 10/73.
Particularly thick volume, tall narrow format. Neat vocalized Yemenite script on thick paper. Title page with color decorations. The volume comprises three sections, with an index at the end of each one.
The manuscript contains hundreds of traditional poems and piyyutim of Yemenite Jewry, in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
Several poems were added at a later date in unskilled hand in the empty pages and endpapers. Various ownership inscriptions (mostly deleted).
[356] leaves. Tall, narrow format: 22X8 cm. Condition varies, most leaves in good condition. Some leaves in fair condition. Stains and wear. Tears and worming, affecting text. Leaves trimmed, with damage to the notes added in margins. New binding.
Taamei Halachot is a composition preserved in Maghrebian manuscripts (in various versions). Most of it was never published. It presumably originates from the Torah scholars of Marrakesh, and comprises a compendium of the teachings of Rishonim and Acharonim, halachic rulings and local customs, and more. The present manuscript contains Taamei Halachot for the laws of festival in Orach Chaim (many illustrations in the laws of Sukkah), and for the laws of Yoreh De'ah, with selected laws from Even HaEzer.
Neat Western script, with dozens of marginal and interlinear glosses (including lengthy glosses) completing and expanding upon the composition. The writer has not been identified (the manuscript may have been written by several writers).
At the end of the manuscript, compendium of segulot, texts of amulets and hashbaot, with kabbalistic tables and diagrams, and book of cures.
Illustration of the Temple menorah. Death inscription dated 1801 and other inscription.
[159] leaves. 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Tears to several leaves, slightly affecting text. Original leather binding, damaged.
Neat Western scribal script; several leaves handwritten by the author, with many deletions and emendations. The manuscript comprises selected novellae organized in the order of the Torah portions and copyings of the works of various Torah scholars. Includes a complete composition on the Torah portions - novellae on the commentaries of Rashi and the Re'em by R. Shalom ibn Tzur (Abensour), which to the best of our knowledge was never published.
The writer signed his name at the end of the last composition.
See Hebrew description for more details on the contents of the manuscript.
[45] written pages (and several blank leaves). Lacking beginning. 15 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, tears and wear. Open tears to several leaves, affecting text, repaired with paper. Worming. Old binding, damaged.
Neat Western script. Ornamental initial word panels in several places.
The manuscript comprises Tahir shel Pesach - a composition recited in North African communities during Passover, containing a halachic piyyut of the laws of Passover, in the Holy Tongue with Judeo-Arabic translation (paragraph by paragraph); other piyyutim in Judeo-Arabic and translation of the haftarot of the festival. The manuscript is lacking several leaves at the beginning and in the middle.
With selected novellae on the Torah and teachings of the sages, kabbalistic prayers and songs for Rosh Hashana, and calculation of the tekufot.
Deleted calligraphic signatures on p. 25a. Signatures and signature trials on the leaves before the songs for Rosh Hashana.
[70] leaves. Lacking leaves at beginning and in middle of manuscript. 15 cm. Condition varies, good-fair. Stains and wear. Several leaves in fair-poor condition, with open tears affecting text. Original binding (leather-covered wood), damaged.
![Petach HaOhel, homiletics on the Torah, Bereshit, by R. David Abuchatzeira. Jerusalem, [1923]. Printed dedication on verso of](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale81a-public/236.jpg "Petach HaOhel - Bereshit - Jerusalem, 1923 - Dedication")
Printed dedication on verso of the title page, completed by hand, for the wealthy philanthropist Yosef Berdugo. The handwriting is similar to that of R. Yisrael Abuchatzeira the Baba Sali, brother of the author and publisher of this book; the dedication may be in his handwriting.
[16], 151 leaves. Lacking final two leaves: 152-153. 22.5 cm. Dry paper. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dampstains to title page and first leaves. Title page partially detached. Marginal tears. Leaf 151 detached and torn. Stamp and handwritten inscriptions. Without binding.
The contents of this leaf were not published in Chiddushei Haflaa on the Talmudic tractates, 1900 and 1994, and were presumably not published anywhere else.
This leaf was presumably part of a manuscript volume in possession of R. Efraim Zalman Horowitz of Komarno, descendant of the Haflaa. Parts of that volume (mainly the halachic sections of the manuscript pertaining to Orach Chaim and Yoreh De'ah) were published in Chiddushei Haflaa (Munkacs, 1895).
R. Pinchas HaLevi Ish Horowitz, the Haflaa (1731-1805), rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, then the Torah center of Germany. He was the prime teacher of the Chatam Sofer and a prolific author, revered by all Torah leaders of his times.
[1] leaf (two written pages). 19 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal open tears, not affecting text. Marginal worming, slightly affecting text.
Manuscript, twenty-nine large leaves - Chassidic essays, Aggadic novellae and homiletics on the Torah portions, Neviim and Ketuvim, teachings of the sages and various topics, by R. Moshe Teitelbaum Rabbi of Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely), author of Yismach Moshe. Written by a scribe, with dozens of glosses and transition sentences handwritten by his grandson and close disciple, Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum Rabbi of Sighet - the Yitav Lev. [Gorlitz/Sighet, ca. 1848-1861]. With hundreds of glosses handwritten by Rebbe Moshe David Teitelbaum Rabbi of Laposch (Târgu Lăpuş). [Laposch, 1900s].
Large leaves, written on both sides (two columns per page), copying in preparation for printing from the novellae of the Yismach Moshe. These leaves were in the possession of the Yitav Lev and his grandson and disciple Rebbe Moshe David Teitelbaum. Both of them edited sections of this manuscript and printed them in the Yismach Moshe books which they published. These leaves therefore contain their handwritten glosses, notes, additions, emendations and instructions for the printer.
When the Yitav Lev prepared his grandfather's series of books on the Torah for print, he selected several sections from the present manuscript and published them in the Yismach Moshe books (Lviv, 1848-1861). Rebbe Moshe David later selected other sections from these leaves, and published them in the books Yismach Moshe on Neviim, Ketuvim and teachings of the sages (Sighet, 1906-1908). The present manuscript may contain several sections which were never published.
Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum Rabbi of Ujhel (1759-1841), prominent Chassidic leader in Hungary and Galicia. Tremendous Torah scholar and kabbalist, renowned as a holy man and wonder-worker. Author of the Yismach Moshe series and other books.
Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), close disciple of his grandfather the Yismach Moshe and his successor as rabbi of Ujhel. He later was appointed rabbi of Sighet, where he opened a large yeshiva and drew thousands of Chassidim seeking his counsel and blessings.
Rebbe Moshe David Teitelbaum (1855-1935), grandson and close disciple of the Yitav Lev of Sighet. Published the works of his ancestors, the Yismach Moshe and the Yitav Lev. Served as rabbi of Laposch from 1882, settling in his final years in the United States, where he served as the Volova Rav.
[29] written leaves. 42 cm. Overall good condition. Stains (including dampstains), tears and wear. Large open tears to several leaves, affecting text. Markings and inscriptions in blue ink in the text (presumably indicating sections to be printed).
Throughout his life, the Yismach Moshe composed novellae on all parts of the Torah - Halachah, Aggadah, Derush and Chassidut. He wrote these novellae sporadically, on pieces of paper, rather than in an organized fashion. After his passing, his writings were given to the Yitav Lev, his grandson and disciple, who gave them to a scribe to be copied methodically. After the writings were copied, the Yitav Lev began editing and arranging the novellae according to topics. While he was editing them, he added glosses, introductory and transition sentences, and many sources. From these writings, the Yitav Lev printed the Yismach Moshe series on the Torah portions, between 1848-1861. In time, when the Yitav Lev became busy with his rabbinical position, his yeshiva and disseminating Torah to his many disciples, he handed over the rest of the writings to his son-in-law, R. Yisrael Yaakov Yukel Teitelbaum Rabbi of Gorlitz and to his grandson R. Moshe David Teitelbaum Rabbi of Laposch, for them to edit and arrange other works of the Yismach Moshe for print. R. Yisrael Yaakov Yukel Teitelbaum of Gorlitz edited Responsa Heshiv Moshe (Lviv, 1866). R. Moshe David Teitelbaum of Laposch edited Tefillah LeMoshe on Tehillim (Krakow, 1880), and in 1906 and 1908, he compiled and published two new volumes of Yismach Moshe, comprising a compendium of ten small works on Neviim, Ketuvim, Megillot, Aggadot and more.
These leaves were used in the preparation of several books of the Yismach Moshe, and show the initial stages of editing - prior to the rearrangement according to subjects - bearing the handwritten editing notes of his holy descendants.
Five leaves handwritten by the author, Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh, with his emendations and deletions in the body of the text. The leaves contain sections of various sermons, which were later published after the author's passing in his books Ach Pri Tevuah Part I (Munkacs, 1875) and HaYashar VehaTov Part I (Munkacs, 1880), after being edited. These are the original homilies, as they were recorded by the author, with textual variations compared to the printed version.
Two leaves are from a sermon for the inauguration of a synagogue.
[5] leaves (nine written pages). 25 cm. Good condition. Stains. Marginal tears (with slight damage to text in one place).
The piece of paper was cut out of the Pinkas of the Poalei Tzedek - Shoemakers' society in Botoshan. One side of the paper is dated Thursday, 3rd day of Chol HaMoed Pesach 1832, Botoshan, and contains an inscription concerning the institution of practices and regulations by members of the society (interrupted after two lines).
The verso contains a recommendation by R. Yosef of Berditchev in support of the society's regulations. Dated Tuesday, Erev Rosh Chodesh Av 1833, with his signature.
R. Yosef Yisrael of Berditchev was the son of R. Meir of Berditchev, author of Keter Torah, son of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, the Kedushat Levi. R. Yosef of Berditchev first printed in 1816 in one volume the two parts of the book Kedushat Levi - on the Torah portions and the festivals. The Ohev Yisrael of Apta, in his approbation to this edition, refers to R. Yosef with many titles of honor.
[1] leaf. 21.5X5.5 cm. Good condition. Stains.