Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $1,800
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
"Shiviti" sign. [Central Europe, apparently Germany]. 1812; renewed in 1866. Black / brown and red ink on parchment. Impressive "Shiviti" used in the Synagogue. On its upper margins (in Aramaic): "Woe to the person who talks in the Synagogue". At the top: "Know before whom you are standing, before the King of Kings 'HaKadosh Baruch Hu'" and "Shiviti Hashem L'Negdi Tamid". In the center is an illustration of a "menorah" with verses from Psalms, supported by two lions, flanked by two flowers. All around are various letter combinations and Names of G-d. Written around the right, bottom and left margins: "Man worries about the loss of his money but does not worry about the loss of his days. His money does not help him and his days do not return". Acronym of "Turn away from evil and do good" and of "Only good to Israel forever". At the base of the "menorah" is the date the sign was manufactured, "5572", and at the sides, the name of the person who made it," Avraham Katz". Some of the letters and ornamentation have been damaged and restored in 1866 as written on the bottom margins: "Repaired and renewed by me Yidel Esheim in 5626". 33X34 cm. Two pieces, a few centimeters long, are missing and were restored by sewing in 1866. Two holes (apparently, one was used for hanging). Stains.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $300
Sold for: $425
Including buyer's premium
"Shiviti" for hanging on the wall of a Synagogue, with "piyutim" for Purim and the blessing said over reading the "megillah". [Iranian Kurdistan, late 19th century or beginning of 20th century]. Ink and paint on paper. In the center upper area is a "LaMenatzeach menorah". On the two remaining columns of the upper part and on the right column of the lower part is the piyut "Tnu Shira" / Yedidim Barchu Po'el Gevurot" by the poet Yafet ben Ye(hud)a (not complete), different from the familiar version. In the middle column at the bottom part are the blessings before reading the "megillah", and in the left column is an addition to the blessing "Harav Et Riveinu" for Purim. Part of the version of that addition is not known. The leaf is dated at the end: "Rosh Chodesh Adar 5425". Apparently, the person who made this "Shiviti" copied the "piyut" and the addition mentioned above from an early "Shiviti" poster, from 1665. The bibliographer and researcher Menashe Refael Lehman tells of a similar poster in the "Sinai" anthology (Issue 98, 1986, pp. 74-75): "The piyut 'Yedidim Barchu Poel Gevurot'… was not known until the present. It was written in various places on a parchment poster for Purim drawn in glorious colors and with clauses from the 'megillah'. I recently purchase the poster from an Arab merchant in the Old City of Jerusalem". Lehman adds that apparently, the poster originated in Persia. On the cardboard that comes with the leaf, the owner wrote "Bought in Jerusalem on August 1964". 31.9X39 cm. Fair condition. Tears, creases, stains and folding marks. Minor damages to writing. Glued on another leaf, on the reverse side are handwritten inscriptions. See: "Light and Shadows – The Story of Iran and the Jews" exhibition catalogue (Beit Hatfutsot, The Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv, 2010), pp. 48-49.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $300
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Large "Shiviti" for hanging, with kabalistic motifs and letter-combinations for protection. Herat, Western Afghanistan, [end of 19th century or beginning of 20th century]. Ink on paper.
Large impressive "Shiviti". Adorned at the top with Stars of David, Tablets of Law and crowns; in the center are ten Psalms written in the shape of large "menorahs" and in the shape of a Star of David; in the margins and on the lower part are Psalms in the shape of arches.
At the bottom is a long text in Hebrew and Arabic / Persian Hebrew, incorporated with kabalistic letter combinations with the author's name as well: "Mashiach Ashgari The Small, dust under the feet of the wise, lives in Herat Afghanistan… for the well-being of the young man Shmuel Chayai --- he and his whole family and all --- and his relatives and all he has…". At the end of the text is the verse "G-d shall bless you, and make you fruitful and you shall become a congregation of nations" – a segula for fertility.
49X59 cm. in frame 61X71.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains. Tears, some with damage to text (especially in margins) – professionally restored. Creases and folding marks. Not examined out of frame.
Large impressive "Shiviti". Adorned at the top with Stars of David, Tablets of Law and crowns; in the center are ten Psalms written in the shape of large "menorahs" and in the shape of a Star of David; in the margins and on the lower part are Psalms in the shape of arches.
At the bottom is a long text in Hebrew and Arabic / Persian Hebrew, incorporated with kabalistic letter combinations with the author's name as well: "Mashiach Ashgari The Small, dust under the feet of the wise, lives in Herat Afghanistan… for the well-being of the young man Shmuel Chayai --- he and his whole family and all --- and his relatives and all he has…". At the end of the text is the verse "G-d shall bless you, and make you fruitful and you shall become a congregation of nations" – a segula for fertility.
49X59 cm. in frame 61X71.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains. Tears, some with damage to text (especially in margins) – professionally restored. Creases and folding marks. Not examined out of frame.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
["Shiviti"], "The merit of Rabbi David HaLevi should protect you", decorated leaf for hanging in the synagogue. Morocco, [19th century].
Ink and paint on parchment; gold color; tiny metal sequins.
At the top of the leaf is an illustration of a crown, under which the name of G-d appears above the inscription "The merit of Rabbi David HaLevi should protect you" [Rabbi David ben Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi of Daraa, a Spanish exile who reached Morocco in 1492; Torah scholar and mekubal, author of Sefer HaMalchut]. In the center of the leaf are three lamps. The drawing of the right lamp is composed of the words of Ana BeKoach, the middle lamp is composed of the words of Psalm 67 and the left is composed of the words of Psalm 121 (Shir LaMa'alot). Under the lamps is the version of a kabalistic prayer for livelihood from the Holy Zohar. The leaf has colored and golden decorations, in geometric and plant patterns; entirely enclosed in a window-shaped frame. The Ana B'Koach lamp and the Shir LaMa'alot lamp are also enclosed in pointed window-shaped frames. The row of flowers in a peripheral frame, the crown at the top of the leaf and the center lamp are decorated with tiny sequins, sewn to the parchment leaf (on the reverse side, papers were glued to protect the threads from unraveling).
40X59 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Minor damages to paint. Creases.
Ink and paint on parchment; gold color; tiny metal sequins.
At the top of the leaf is an illustration of a crown, under which the name of G-d appears above the inscription "The merit of Rabbi David HaLevi should protect you" [Rabbi David ben Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi of Daraa, a Spanish exile who reached Morocco in 1492; Torah scholar and mekubal, author of Sefer HaMalchut]. In the center of the leaf are three lamps. The drawing of the right lamp is composed of the words of Ana BeKoach, the middle lamp is composed of the words of Psalm 67 and the left is composed of the words of Psalm 121 (Shir LaMa'alot). Under the lamps is the version of a kabalistic prayer for livelihood from the Holy Zohar. The leaf has colored and golden decorations, in geometric and plant patterns; entirely enclosed in a window-shaped frame. The Ana B'Koach lamp and the Shir LaMa'alot lamp are also enclosed in pointed window-shaped frames. The row of flowers in a peripheral frame, the crown at the top of the leaf and the center lamp are decorated with tiny sequins, sewn to the parchment leaf (on the reverse side, papers were glued to protect the threads from unraveling).
40X59 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Minor damages to paint. Creases.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $200
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
Four parchment amulets for protecting the home.
Ink on parchment, cut in the shape of a square.
Incantations, oaths, names of angels and letter combinations for protecting the home. Four amulets designated for hanging on four sides of the house, with the inscriptions "East", "West", "North" and "South".
Approximately 13X13 cm. Stains.
Ink on parchment, cut in the shape of a square.
Incantations, oaths, names of angels and letter combinations for protecting the home. Four amulets designated for hanging on four sides of the house, with the inscriptions "East", "West", "North" and "South".
Approximately 13X13 cm. Stains.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $300
Unsold
Amulet pendant for protection. [Oriental country, beginning of 20th century].
Metal, folk art engraving.
Names of angels and oaths.
Approximately 5X5 cm. Rust and welding marks. Broken hanging loop.
Metal, folk art engraving.
Names of angels and oaths.
Approximately 5X5 cm. Rust and welding marks. Broken hanging loop.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $4,000
Unsold
Prayer for "Tikun Keri". Large leaf, for hanging in the Synagogue. Rawitsch, Posen region, Germany / Poland, 1818.
Ink on thick paper.
Large handwritten leaf, for hanging in the Synagogue. At the top, the word "Yehi" is enlarged inside a round frame. The times for reading the prayer are specified on the right and left of the leaf: "On Shabbat when the New Month is blessed say this prayer"; "Look at the time the 'Chazan' says 'UMipnei Chata'enu'and say this prayer" (This prayer is said according to the "Mekubalim" in the Synagogue during "Birkat HaChodesh", on "Yamim Nora'im" and festivals during the "Mussaf" prayer). The word "Yehi", the instructions and the leaf's frame all have branch-like delicate decorations. At the bottom of the leaf, in an oval frame, is the year and name of the scribe: "Shmuel ben HaChaver Yeshaya the scribe of the Rawitsch community".
36X49.5 cm. frame 63.5X77.5 cm. Fair condition. Dark paper. Several blurred letters. Stains, tears and damage to margins, professionally restored. Not examined out of frame.
Ink on thick paper.
Large handwritten leaf, for hanging in the Synagogue. At the top, the word "Yehi" is enlarged inside a round frame. The times for reading the prayer are specified on the right and left of the leaf: "On Shabbat when the New Month is blessed say this prayer"; "Look at the time the 'Chazan' says 'UMipnei Chata'enu'and say this prayer" (This prayer is said according to the "Mekubalim" in the Synagogue during "Birkat HaChodesh", on "Yamim Nora'im" and festivals during the "Mussaf" prayer). The word "Yehi", the instructions and the leaf's frame all have branch-like delicate decorations. At the bottom of the leaf, in an oval frame, is the year and name of the scribe: "Shmuel ben HaChaver Yeshaya the scribe of the Rawitsch community".
36X49.5 cm. frame 63.5X77.5 cm. Fair condition. Dark paper. Several blurred letters. Stains, tears and damage to margins, professionally restored. Not examined out of frame.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
"Ushpizin", colored hand-illustrated poster. [Italy, 19th century].
Watercolor on cardboard.
In the center, in large letters, is the invitation to the "Ushpizin" on the third day of "Succot". [Written above the words in small letters: "Say on the third evening and on the third day"]. Surrounding the words is a colorful frame decorated with branches and flowers.
38X54 cm. Stains and wear.
Watercolor on cardboard.
In the center, in large letters, is the invitation to the "Ushpizin" on the third day of "Succot". [Written above the words in small letters: "Say on the third evening and on the third day"]. Surrounding the words is a colorful frame decorated with branches and flowers.
38X54 cm. Stains and wear.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Handwritten leaf, with the prayer said while opening the Torah Ark. France, [beginning of 20th century].
Ink and gold and silver paint on thick paper.
The text is written in black lettering, surrounded by illustrations of the Two Tablets of Law, lions holding a Torah scroll, angels and Stars of David, in gold and silver paint. On the bottom is a handwritten dedication in French, in memory of one of the members of the Kahane family, with note of the date of his death (June 29, no year noted).
27.5X60 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains. Tears to margins. Few creases.
Ink and gold and silver paint on thick paper.
The text is written in black lettering, surrounded by illustrations of the Two Tablets of Law, lions holding a Torah scroll, angels and Stars of David, in gold and silver paint. On the bottom is a handwritten dedication in French, in memory of one of the members of the Kahane family, with note of the date of his death (June 29, no year noted).
27.5X60 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains. Tears to margins. Few creases.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $3,250
Including buyer's premium
A single leaf in a large form with drawings of Jerusalem and texts describing the cities of Eretz Israel. Altona, 1859.
Written at the top of the leaf: "Account of the genealogy of the holy tzaddikim of Israel and its cities, Shechem, Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed". Next to this inscription is a similar English, German and French translation. The figure of Moshe Rabbeinu is on the right margin and the figure of Aharon the Cohen is on the left margin. In the center of the leaf are four drawings of Jerusalem and two small drawings of the Tomb of Zecharya and the Tomb of Rachel. Printed in the center of the leaf is a text detailing the location of the graves of tzaddikim near the Holy Cities. Printed at the bottom of the leaf is the inscription "If I forget you Jerusalem", drawings of "Yad Avshalom" (a drawing of two hands during Birkat Cohanim), Miriam's Well and a "LaMenatzeach" menorah. Printed on the bottom margin is an inscription citing the source of the text and attributing it to Rabbi Chaim ben Ya'akov Abulafia (the first): "This form has been found written in the handwriting of Rabbi Chaim Abulafia, the Rabbi of Jerusalem and I, R' Binyamin HaCohen Yehoram who sits in the medrash of Sonbol Altona has now printed it". Added on the reverse side are handwritten inscriptions (one is from the 19th century, on the subject of the redemption of Zion).
42X52.5 cm. Good-fair condition. The leaf has had professional, artisan rinsing and restoration. Folding marks, tears to margins, damages and stains (all restored). Missing tear to lower margin (approximately 4X12 cm.) – restored.
Written at the top of the leaf: "Account of the genealogy of the holy tzaddikim of Israel and its cities, Shechem, Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed". Next to this inscription is a similar English, German and French translation. The figure of Moshe Rabbeinu is on the right margin and the figure of Aharon the Cohen is on the left margin. In the center of the leaf are four drawings of Jerusalem and two small drawings of the Tomb of Zecharya and the Tomb of Rachel. Printed in the center of the leaf is a text detailing the location of the graves of tzaddikim near the Holy Cities. Printed at the bottom of the leaf is the inscription "If I forget you Jerusalem", drawings of "Yad Avshalom" (a drawing of two hands during Birkat Cohanim), Miriam's Well and a "LaMenatzeach" menorah. Printed on the bottom margin is an inscription citing the source of the text and attributing it to Rabbi Chaim ben Ya'akov Abulafia (the first): "This form has been found written in the handwriting of Rabbi Chaim Abulafia, the Rabbi of Jerusalem and I, R' Binyamin HaCohen Yehoram who sits in the medrash of Sonbol Altona has now printed it". Added on the reverse side are handwritten inscriptions (one is from the 19th century, on the subject of the redemption of Zion).
42X52.5 cm. Good-fair condition. The leaf has had professional, artisan rinsing and restoration. Folding marks, tears to margins, damages and stains (all restored). Missing tear to lower margin (approximately 4X12 cm.) – restored.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Amulet, protection for home and childbed. [Israel Back printing], Jerusalem, [1863].
Printed in leaf margins, near frame, is the inscription "May it be your will G-d the G-d of Israel that you shall command your holy angels to protect this house from all types of illnesses and pain and misfortunes that happen suddenly in the world…". The leaf also has the "Shir LaMa'a lot", a square with the names of "Adam and Eve, Avraham and Sarah…", "Do not let a witch live…", name of angels, "If I forget you Jerusalem…" and a drawing (woodcut) of the city of Jerusalem.
20X28.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Tears, folding marks and stains. The leaf underwent restoration.
Rare. S. HaLevi no. 88. See also S. Halevi no. 87 and the Bibliography Institute CD Listing 0179368.
Printed in leaf margins, near frame, is the inscription "May it be your will G-d the G-d of Israel that you shall command your holy angels to protect this house from all types of illnesses and pain and misfortunes that happen suddenly in the world…". The leaf also has the "Shir LaMa'a lot", a square with the names of "Adam and Eve, Avraham and Sarah…", "Do not let a witch live…", name of angels, "If I forget you Jerusalem…" and a drawing (woodcut) of the city of Jerusalem.
20X28.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Tears, folding marks and stains. The leaf underwent restoration.
Rare. S. HaLevi no. 88. See also S. Halevi no. 87 and the Bibliography Institute CD Listing 0179368.
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"Mizrah" and "Shiviti" leaves, Ketubot and Graphics
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Auction 28 - Objects - Judaica, Ceremonial Art and Israeliana
January 23, 2013
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium
Mizrah / An Awesome prayer by Rabbi Yishmael Cohen Gadol. Single leaf, "From the new printing press of R' Avraham Rotenberg", Jerusalem, [c. 1866].
Printed on the four corners are drawings: The Western Wall, The Tomb of Rachel, The Tomb of Zecharya and "Ma'arat HaMachpela". At the top of the leaf, in the center: "Mizrah – the spirit of life is from this direction". Printed underneath is the title, An Awesome prayer by Rabbi Yishmael Cohen Gadol and under that is a rectangle with the inscription "Sha'ar Ora". The text itself is printed in three columns: printed in the right and left column is the prayer of Rabbi Yishmael Cohen Gadol, "whoever says it every day in the Synagogue or at home is saved from all evil happenings…", printed in the middle column are two chapters of Psalms (34, 72) to be read before reciting the prayer. At the bottom of the leaf: "Printed in Yerushalem; this holy prayer is cited in the book Amtachat Binyamin [by Rabbi Binyamin Beinish ben Yehuda Leib HaCohen, Wilhermsdorf 1716] and after seeing it, I said that is something good to distribute throughout the Jewish people and to reprint it on a board. In this manner each person will be able to purchase it and hang it on the walls of his home and read it. And G-d will be with him and he will succeed wherever he endeavors and he will receive the blessing mentioned above. These are the words of the publisher of this dear item, Moshe ben Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Rivlin". Rabbi Avraham Rotenberg's printing press operated in Jerusalem from 1866-1868 and from 1877-1878; this leaf was dated according to the writing in its lower margins, "In the new printing press of Rabbi Avraham Rotenberg".
33.5X44 cm. Fair-good condition. Tears, primarily to upper margins and on folding lines, professionally restored. Creases and stains. Placed in a frame 52.5X72.5 cm. Not examined out of the frame.
Rare. Bibliographically unknown, does not appear in "Sifrei Yerushalayim HaRishonim" by Shoshana HaLevi and differs from the Mizrah mentioned in the Bibliography Institute CD Listing 0313739 and from other Mizrah items printed in Jerusalem in those times.
Printed on the four corners are drawings: The Western Wall, The Tomb of Rachel, The Tomb of Zecharya and "Ma'arat HaMachpela". At the top of the leaf, in the center: "Mizrah – the spirit of life is from this direction". Printed underneath is the title, An Awesome prayer by Rabbi Yishmael Cohen Gadol and under that is a rectangle with the inscription "Sha'ar Ora". The text itself is printed in three columns: printed in the right and left column is the prayer of Rabbi Yishmael Cohen Gadol, "whoever says it every day in the Synagogue or at home is saved from all evil happenings…", printed in the middle column are two chapters of Psalms (34, 72) to be read before reciting the prayer. At the bottom of the leaf: "Printed in Yerushalem; this holy prayer is cited in the book Amtachat Binyamin [by Rabbi Binyamin Beinish ben Yehuda Leib HaCohen, Wilhermsdorf 1716] and after seeing it, I said that is something good to distribute throughout the Jewish people and to reprint it on a board. In this manner each person will be able to purchase it and hang it on the walls of his home and read it. And G-d will be with him and he will succeed wherever he endeavors and he will receive the blessing mentioned above. These are the words of the publisher of this dear item, Moshe ben Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Rivlin". Rabbi Avraham Rotenberg's printing press operated in Jerusalem from 1866-1868 and from 1877-1878; this leaf was dated according to the writing in its lower margins, "In the new printing press of Rabbi Avraham Rotenberg".
33.5X44 cm. Fair-good condition. Tears, primarily to upper margins and on folding lines, professionally restored. Creases and stains. Placed in a frame 52.5X72.5 cm. Not examined out of the frame.
Rare. Bibliographically unknown, does not appear in "Sifrei Yerushalayim HaRishonim" by Shoshana HaLevi and differs from the Mizrah mentioned in the Bibliography Institute CD Listing 0313739 and from other Mizrah items printed in Jerusalem in those times.
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