Auction 046 Special Chabad Auction in Honor of 11th Nisan - Birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and in Honor of Pesach
"Order of prayers according to the Arizal Nusach". Two parts: Part I – Shacharit LeChol, Seder Seudah UVerachot, Seder Irusin VeKiddushin, Seder Milah, Tikun Chatzot; Part II – prayers for Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh and festivals, accompanied by Chassidic homilies and various rulings, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Baal HaTanya and Shulchan Aruch. Warsaw: R. Nathan Schriftgiesser, 1866-1867. Two parts in two volumes.
The text of the Siddur, the rulings and the two Chassidic essays (HaKol Kol Yaakov and He'ara LeTikkun Chatzot) were compiled and composed by the Baal HaTanya. The other Chassidic discourses (commentaries to the prayers) were delivered by the Baal HaTanya and recorded by his son R. Dov Ber, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch. This siddur is known amongst Chabad Chassidim as Siddur im Dach (Divrei Elokim Chaim – words of the Living G-d).
Signature and inked stamps of the collector R. Pinchas Berzaze of Maków Mazowiecki (Poland), in the second volume.
Two parts in two volumes: Vol. I: [2], 154 ff. Vol. II: [1], 2-62; 94 ff.
Approx. 23.5-24 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains (significant staining to some leaves). Creases and wear. Title page of part I, and few additional leaves, in fair condition (dark stains; wear; open tears; Transparent adhesive tape for reinforcement). New, matching leather bindings.
Oberlaender, HaSiddur, 16, page 319.
"Order of prayers according to the Arizal Nusach". Two parts: Part I – Shacharit LeChol, Seder Seudah Uverachot, Seder Irusin VeKiddushin, Seder Milah, Tikun Chatzot; Part II – prayers for Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh and festivals, accompanied by Chassidic homilies and various rulings, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Baal HaTanya and Shulchan Aruch. Warsaw: R. Nathan Schriftgiesser, 1866-1867. Two parts in one volume.
Includes three letters by the Baal HaTanya and the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch, printed for the first time in the present edition.
The text of the Siddur, the rulings and the two Chassidic essays (HaKol Kol Yaakov and He'ara LeTikkun Chatzot) were compiled and composed by the Baal HaTanya. The other Chassidic discourses (commentaries to the prayers) were delivered by the Baal HaTanya and recorded by his son R. Dov Ber, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch.
This siddur is known amongst Chabad Chassidim as Siddur im Dach (Divrei Elokim Chaim – words of the Living G-d).
Two parts in one volume: Part I: [5], 2-3, 5-237 ff. Leaves 10-11 bound out of squence. Part II: [1], 2-237, [1] ff. Leaves 74-76 bound out of sequence.
24 cm. Fragile paper. Good condition. Stains and wear. Marginal tears and open tears, some restored. Open marginal tear to first title page, restored with paper. Stamps. Old binding, worn and slightly damaged.
Oberlaender, HaSiddur, 50, page 327.
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Siddur Kol Bnei Yehuda, year-round prayers according to the Arizal Nusach. Shanghai: "Printed by Talmud-Torah in Shanghai", 1946. Facsimile. Illustrated title page.
Inked stamps of the Talmud-Torah in Shanghai, on title page and other page.
[1] ff., 184 pp. 22 cm. Good condition. Stains and browning. Minor worming. Inscription to title page. New binding.
Oberlaender, HaSiddur, 258, page 379.
Likutei Amarim – Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Yas (Iași): Notte Wasserman and his brother-in-law, Yisrael Ben Yaakov Segal, 1843.
With an enthusiastic approbation by R. Yosef Landau Rabbi of Yas, author of Responsa "Birkat Yosef".
[2], 92 ff. Approx.16.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including dampstains. Browning. Tears and worming, affecting text, some restored with paper (handwritten text replacement to leaves 91-92). Leaves trimmed, affecting text's margins in some places. Stamps. New binding.
Mondshine, Sefer HaTanya, Bibliography, XV, p. 78-80.
Rabbi Landau's Approbation
Rabbi Yosef Landau was a disciple of the Ohev Yisrael of Apta, and after his death became a close disciple of Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin. A decade before this book was published, a fierce dispute developed between the Chabad community in Yas and the Chassidim of the Ohev Yisrael of Apta (then rabbi of the city), who strongly opposed the Chabad approach. In 1834, Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin visited the city and made peace between the two sides. This may be what led to the warm approbation accorded by R. Yosef Landau to the book by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi.
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Two books bound together:
* Likutei Amarim – Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. [Warsaw: after 1856]. The present edition is based on the 1856 Lviv edition (without the approbations). The present edition was revised under the strain of censorship, containing more omissions than the 1856 Lviv edition.
False Place of Publication
In the present edition, the place of publication is indicated on the title page margins as "Wien" [Vienna]. According to Bibliographer R. Chaim Lieberman, books printed in Warsaw often bore false places of publication, such as Königsberg, Czernowitz, Pressburg, Wien, Lvov, and others; these books' designs are easily discernable [e.g. ornaments printed in the present Tanya edition are very similar to those found in the 1866 Warsaw edition of "Avodath HaLevi", printed by F. Baumriter and I. Rotblat (Mondshine, Sefer HaTanya, Bibliography, p. 86, footnote 1)].
[1], 2-24, 18-21, 29-44 ff. Signatures of R. Elimelech Shapira on the cover and endpapers. Mondshine, Sefer HaTanya, Bibliography, 18/I, pp. 86 onwards.
* Sefer Torat Chesed, selections on the Torah portions using various approaches of interpretation, by R. Avraham Mordechai of Lutsk, close disciple of the Ohev Yisrael of Apta and disciple of the Chozeh of Lublin. Warsaw, 1866. First edition.
[2], 2-26 ff. Missing [2] leaves at end of volume.
Two books in one volume: 18.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains. Creases and wear. Minor worming. Leaves trimmed, affecting text margins in some places. New binding (imprint on spine: "Vienna"; Hebrew).
Sefer Igrot HaKodesh, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya. [Lviv, 1860].
This edition was printed line by line after the 1850 Zhovkva edition; it also appeared together with the Sefer HaTanya edition printed in Lviv that same year.
[28] ff. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor wear. Minor marginal tears. Leaves trimmed unevenly. Unopened sheet. New leather binding.
Mondshine, Sefer HaTanya, Bibliography, XXII, p. 96; Parts and chapters printed independently, XVI, pp. 160-161.
Likutei Amarim – Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Vilna: Widow and Brothers Romm, 1900.
Between leaves 86-87 is bound a handwritten leaf (copying of the second part of chapter VII in Shaar Hayichud VeHaemunah).
Signatures of R. Yitzchak Tzerniakov of the village Bykovo (Moscow Oblast).
[3], 2-163 ff. + [1] handwritten leaf. Approx. 21 cm. Fair condition. Stains and dark stains. Browning. Creases and wear. Teras and worming, affecting text. First leaves partly detached. Original half-leather binding, worn and damaged (open tears to spine).
Mondshine, Sefer HaTanya, Bibliography, XXX, p. 107-113.
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Likutei Amarim Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Vilna, Widow and Brothers Romm, 1909. Two title pages.
Wide-margined copy, with gilded edges. Original binding with leather spine (impression on Spine: Likutei Amarim).
Facsimile of the 1900 Vilna edition (the Rebbe Rashab's edition), with minor corrections. A notice by the printers, announcing that the Tanya's printing copyrights were purchased by the Rebbe Rashab, for the benefit of the Tomchei Tmimim institution (dated July 14, 1909), is printed in page 2\1. This notice was printed in all the subsequent editions of the Tanya.
[2], 2-163 ff. 20.5 cm. wide margins. Gilded edges. Good condition. Stains. Signatures, stamps, and inscriptions. Original binding, with leather spine, slightly worn.
Mondshine, Sefer HaTanya, Bibliography. 31, p. 114.
Likutei Amarim Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Two copies of the Rebbe Rashab edition:
1. Likutei Amarim Tanya. Vilna: Widow and Brothers Romm, 1912. Two title pages. Facsimile of the 1909 Vilna edition.
[2], 2-163 ff. 19 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Tears and open tears, slightly affecting text. New binding.
2. Likutei Amarim Tanya. Vilna: 1930. "Published by the "Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch Society". Two title pages; signature of R. Baruch son of R. Avraham Paris (1921-1976), a famous Chabad Chassid, on first title page.
[2], 2-163 ff. Approx. 16.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and minor wear. Marginal tears to some leaves, repaired with paper and tape. Signature. New binding.
Mondshine, Sefer HaTanya, Bibliography. 32/34, p. 114.
Likutei Amarim – Tanya, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi. [Munich:] Kehot, 1947.
Tanya, printed in Munich shortly after the Holocaust for the benefit of the Chassidim among "She'erit HaPletah", by the son-in-law of Rebbe Rayatz, director and editor-in-chief of the Kehot Publication Society, Menachem Mendel Schneerson – the future Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Stamps of the Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in the Pocking DP camp, near the town of Pocking (Bavaria), Germany. The Yeshiva was founded in Elul, 1946, by the "Chabad Chassidim Association of Pocking". Some 50 Bachurim studied in the Yeshiva, which was managed by R. Nissan Nemanov, R. Yisroel Neveler, R. Avraham Eliyahu Plotkin, R. Zalman Shimon Dworkin, R. Zalman Levitin, R. Shlomo Matusof, among others. The Yeshiva closed down in Iyar 1948, following the passing of Rabbi Yisroel Neveler, its students scattered between Chabad centers across the world.
[2], 2-163 ff. 16.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains. Creases and minor wear. First title page partially detached. Stamps. Original binding, slightly worn and torn.
Polemic between "Chassidim" and "Mitnagdim", by R. Yaakov Keidaner, disciple of the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch. The book was written, copied, and published with various additions and omissions in different versions, under several names: Matzref HaAvodah, Vikucha Rabba, Meshivat Nefesh, and Mishpat Tzedek. The present lot comprises three different versions of the book:
1. Matzref HaAvodah. Königsberg: Gruber et Langrien, [1858]. First Edition. 38, [2] ff. 18.5 cm. Inscriptions and stamps. Good condition. Stains and wear; tears and creases, minor damage to text.
2. Vikucha Rabba. Warsaw, 1866. Second edition. Two title pages (erroneous imprint: "Mahadurah Tinyana" instead of "Mahadurah Kama"). False place of publication - "Pressburg" – is printed on both title pages. 9, [3]; 20 ff. 17.5 cm. Stamp to title page. Good condition. Minor stains. Leaves unevenly trimmed.
3. Meshivat Nefesh. Warsaw: Yosef Lebensohn and Aaron Glinka, 1900. First edition. [3], 22 ff. Approx. 21.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Extensive worming. Marginal tears to title page. Stamps. New bindings.
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