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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $18,000
Sold for: $87,500
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Manuscript, Sha’arei Tefillah – Siddur Kavanot HaAri, in attractive and ornamental Ashkenazi writing, with illustrated title page. Nusach HaAri prayers for every day, Shabbat and Festivals, Shiviti and LaMenatzeach menorahs. Birkat HaMazon, prayers for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur and the kavanot of Tekiat Shofar, kindling Chanuka lights and kavanot for Purim. Passover Haggadah and Sefirat HaOmer (detailed charts of kavanot HaSefira). Manuscript of the kabbalist scribe Rabbi Shlomo Rechnitz son of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Mochiach of Rechnitz (Rohonc). [Loschitz (Loštice), Moravia]. 1756.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $5,000
Sold for: $8,125
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Manuscript, Sefer Mevo Shearim, "divided into several titles, and each title is divided into several titles. By Rabbi Chaim Vital, who got it from Rabbi Yitzchak Luria – and it is an inclusive introduction to all aristocracy and a gate to enter through it to the Etz HaHaim". Mrachva (present day Staraya Murafa. Podolia, town next to Poltava), (1774-1775).
Complete manuscript, with title page and Indexes. Fine and neat copying, glosses by Rabbi Tzemach and Rabbi Moshe Zakut were written within the text. Fine Ashkenazi script, illustrated title page, with illustrations of figures and lions and author's name: Rabbi Gedaliya ben Yitzchak Isaac. At the end of each of the book's chapters a colophon with date of writing [from the month of Heshvan 1774 until the month of Adar 1775, with author's signatures: Rabbi "Gedaliya ben Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Spitz".
Ownership inscription on index page: "Belongs [to R'] Yehuda Leib of Snitkov", (Podolia).
[3], 159 leaves. 21 cm. Good condition, spots. Damages with text omission (professionally restored) to title page and to first leaves. Fine renewed binding, with ancient leather spine.
Sefer Mevo Shearim is the Mahadura Batra (second recension) of the Kabbalistic compositions by Rabbi Chaim Vital found in Genizah and edited by the Kabbalist Rabbi Ya'akov Tzemach. The books was first printed in Koretz in 1783 and again in Thessaloniki in 1806 according to a different manuscript. This manuscript was written 8 years earlier than the printed edition, and there are variations versus the printed edition. The manuscript was written in the area of Podolia, inspired and influenced by the Baal Shem Tov disciples who lived and acted in the area.
Complete manuscript, with title page and Indexes. Fine and neat copying, glosses by Rabbi Tzemach and Rabbi Moshe Zakut were written within the text. Fine Ashkenazi script, illustrated title page, with illustrations of figures and lions and author's name: Rabbi Gedaliya ben Yitzchak Isaac. At the end of each of the book's chapters a colophon with date of writing [from the month of Heshvan 1774 until the month of Adar 1775, with author's signatures: Rabbi "Gedaliya ben Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Spitz".
Ownership inscription on index page: "Belongs [to R'] Yehuda Leib of Snitkov", (Podolia).
[3], 159 leaves. 21 cm. Good condition, spots. Damages with text omission (professionally restored) to title page and to first leaves. Fine renewed binding, with ancient leather spine.
Sefer Mevo Shearim is the Mahadura Batra (second recension) of the Kabbalistic compositions by Rabbi Chaim Vital found in Genizah and edited by the Kabbalist Rabbi Ya'akov Tzemach. The books was first printed in Koretz in 1783 and again in Thessaloniki in 1806 according to a different manuscript. This manuscript was written 8 years earlier than the printed edition, and there are variations versus the printed edition. The manuscript was written in the area of Podolia, inspired and influenced by the Baal Shem Tov disciples who lived and acted in the area.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,063
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Manuscript, Etz Chaim, by Rabbi Chaim Vital, Kabbalah studied from the Ari. Oriental writing [Turkey?, c. 18th century]. With few handwritten glosses.
The manuscript is incomplete, beginning with the last chapter of Sha'ar 19 [Sha'ar Anach] and ending with the beginning of Sha'ar 29 [Sha'ar HaNesira], from Sha'ar HaMochin until the end of Sha'ar HaIburim, the manuscript is complete.
On the flyleaf is the draft of a letter in Ladino, with the mention of "The Chacham Rabbi Gavriel Pizanti". ["The Chacham Rabbi Gavriel Pizanti" is mentioned in the Simchat Yom Tov responsa, by the Maharit Elgazi, Siman 30].
Leaves 176-276 (approximately 202 written pages). 22 cm. Fair-poor condition. Much wear, tears and stains. Ancient leather binding, torn.
The manuscript is incomplete, beginning with the last chapter of Sha'ar 19 [Sha'ar Anach] and ending with the beginning of Sha'ar 29 [Sha'ar HaNesira], from Sha'ar HaMochin until the end of Sha'ar HaIburim, the manuscript is complete.
On the flyleaf is the draft of a letter in Ladino, with the mention of "The Chacham Rabbi Gavriel Pizanti". ["The Chacham Rabbi Gavriel Pizanti" is mentioned in the Simchat Yom Tov responsa, by the Maharit Elgazi, Siman 30].
Leaves 176-276 (approximately 202 written pages). 22 cm. Fair-poor condition. Much wear, tears and stains. Ancient leather binding, torn.
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Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
March 11, 2015
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $2,250
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Manuscript by Kabbalist Rabbi Masud HaCohen Elchadad, responsa on the teachings of the Ari and of his disciple, Rabbi Chaim Vital in Etz Chaim and in Shmone She'arim and on the Kavanot of Prayers in the Siddur of the Rashash. Jerusalem, c. 1900s-1910s.
Most of the manuscript is an autograph, handwritten and signed by the author himself, who signed most of the responsa with his initials contained in the words: "Mach anochi m'erki" [i.e. Mach – M.C. – Masud Cohen]. A small section of the manuscript is in the handwriting of his disciple and his successor Kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Hadaya, who edited the book for print and published it under the title Simchat Cohen, Jerusalem, 1921.
This manuscript is from the first editing, containing the original responsa as they were written before they were re-edited for printing, and it contains many variations from the printed book - language and content variations. Some of the things written here were evidently written for the first time, with erasures and additions while writing the book. The manuscript is not complete and only begins in the middle of Responsum 6, which is found in Siman 31 of the printed book. This is followed by Responsum 7, which is found in Siman 74 in the printed book.
Kabbalist Rabbi Masud HaCohen Elchadad (1820-1927), the eldest of the Jerusalem kabbalists in his days, was born in Morocco and in his youth ascended to Eretz Israel with his parents. After he had become proficient in the study of the Talmud and poskim, he devoted himself to the study of Kabbalah for 60 years. In 1902, he traveled as an emissary to Tunisia and to Tripoli and during his stay there his name spread as a miraculous wonder-worker (see testimonies of this in the book Ma'amar Esther, Djerba, 1946, Leaves 7-9). In 1903, he was appointed head of the Chassidim Beit El community and headed the yeshiva for over 30 years. For many years, he led the prayers in the yeshiva according to the Kavanot HaAri in the siddur of the Rashash. He died at the age of 107.
More than 100 written pages. 23 cm. Brittle paper, good-fair condition, tears without damage to text, unbound.
Most of the manuscript is an autograph, handwritten and signed by the author himself, who signed most of the responsa with his initials contained in the words: "Mach anochi m'erki" [i.e. Mach – M.C. – Masud Cohen]. A small section of the manuscript is in the handwriting of his disciple and his successor Kabbalist Rabbi Shalom Hadaya, who edited the book for print and published it under the title Simchat Cohen, Jerusalem, 1921.
This manuscript is from the first editing, containing the original responsa as they were written before they were re-edited for printing, and it contains many variations from the printed book - language and content variations. Some of the things written here were evidently written for the first time, with erasures and additions while writing the book. The manuscript is not complete and only begins in the middle of Responsum 6, which is found in Siman 31 of the printed book. This is followed by Responsum 7, which is found in Siman 74 in the printed book.
Kabbalist Rabbi Masud HaCohen Elchadad (1820-1927), the eldest of the Jerusalem kabbalists in his days, was born in Morocco and in his youth ascended to Eretz Israel with his parents. After he had become proficient in the study of the Talmud and poskim, he devoted himself to the study of Kabbalah for 60 years. In 1902, he traveled as an emissary to Tunisia and to Tripoli and during his stay there his name spread as a miraculous wonder-worker (see testimonies of this in the book Ma'amar Esther, Djerba, 1946, Leaves 7-9). In 1903, he was appointed head of the Chassidim Beit El community and headed the yeshiva for over 30 years. For many years, he led the prayers in the yeshiva according to the Kavanot HaAri in the siddur of the Rashash. He died at the age of 107.
More than 100 written pages. 23 cm. Brittle paper, good-fair condition, tears without damage to text, unbound.
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