Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Manuscript, Dagul Merevavah – notes on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De'ah, laws of Shechitah, by R. Yechezkel HaLevi Landau Rabbi of Prague, the Noda BiYehuda. Cursive Ashkenazic script (by two different hands). [Europe, late 18th / early 19th century].
Stamps of R. Moshe Klafter; inscriptions on first and last pages, signed by him.
Dagul Merevavah was first published in Prague in 1794, following the passing of the Noda BiYehuda, based on the novellae and comments recorded by the Noda BiYehuda in his volumes of Shulchan Aruch. The text in the present manuscript is similar to the first edition of Dagul Merevavah.
R. Moshe Klafter, owner of the present manuscript, was a tremendous Torah scholar who studied in Hungarian yeshivot and later immigrated to the United States. He sponsored the publication of many books of Hungarian rabbis, and published Torah essays in various anthologies.
[8] leaves ([14] written pages). 20.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Unbound.
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Two large leaves handwritten and signed by R. Shmuel Engel. Radomyshl, [Av / Chanukah 1901].
Double leaf from R. Shmuel Engel’s responsa notebook.
The first leaf contains the first two pages of a responsum regarding the erasing of a Holy name (lacking end of responsum), and is addressed to R. Elisha Brander, dayan and posek in Beitsch; published in Responsa of R. Shmuel Engel, part I, section 89. The second leaf features the conclusion of a responsum regarding agunot, with R. Shmuel Engel's signature.
R. Shmuel Engel, rabbi of Radomyshl (1853-1935), a leading Galician Torah scholar and foremost halachic authority of his generation. A close disciple of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Author of the eight-book Responsa Maharash series and other books.
[2] joined leaves (two and a half pages of closely written script; loosely joined). 33 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor wear and tears. Stains.
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Manuscript, Torah novellae (4 pages) handwritten by R. Avraham Menachem HaLevi Steinberg, prominent Galician rabbi. [ca. 1890s].
Section of a halachic responsum on the Talmudic topic of causing a minor to transgress a Torah commandment. A responsum on the same topic was published in his book Machazeh Avraham (Orach Chaim, section 56). Study of the present manuscript reveals that it contains a completely different analysis of the topic (yet the contents of some sections are parallel and similarly formulated).
R. Avraham Menachem (Mendel) HaLevi Steinberg (1847-1928), prominent Galician Torah scholar and leader author of responsum in his times. He was the brother-in-law of R. Aryeh Leibush Horowitz, author of Harei Besamim. Served as rabbi of Sniatyn and later, of Brody. He was renowned for his outstanding genius. During WWI, he was one of the leaders of Galician refugees, and was amongst the founders of Agudath Israel after the war.
[1] double leaf (4 pages). 21 cm. Closely written. Fair-good condition. Wear and tears, with minor damage to text.
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Meginei Eretz, Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, with Magen Avraham and Turei Zahav, Be'er HaGolah, Ateret Zekenim, Dagul Merevavah, Pri Chadash and Even HaOzer. [Vienna, 1808].
With Chok Yaakov on the laws of Passover; divisional title page for Pri Chadash (with Even HaOzer).
Nine lengthy scholarly marginal glosses, in Ashkenazic script, by an unidentified writer. Some of the glosses are faded, two are difficult to decipher.
201-344; 92 [i.e. 71] leaves. Incomplete copy of Orach Chaim part, beginning from section 430 (laws of Passover). 36 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Tears and wear. Stamps. Old binding, detached and damaged.
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Yakhel Shlomo, on the Torah, Talmud and Rambam, by R. Shlomo Bochner Rabbi of Pintchov (Pińczów). [Livorno, 1786]. Only edition.
The author, R. Shlomo Bochner Rabbi of Pintchov, descendant of the Megaleh Amukot, was a maggid and a scribe for the Council of Four Lands in the Krakow area. He was held in great esteem by leading rabbis of his generation.
This copy is missing the title page. Bound instead is a title page handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Silberstein of Radomsk, descendant of the author.
Signatures of R. Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Silberstein at the top of the title page and on the two following leaves, in which he expresses his yearning to immigrate to Eretz Israel.
Several glosses (including lengthy glosses) in his handwriting.
R. Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Silberstein (d. 1950), rabbi in Bodzentyn and Wierzbnik, Poland and later in Toronto, Canada, where he served as president of the Vaad HaRabonim. He appears to have fulfilled his aspiration and lived for several years in Jerusalem.
[2], 68 leaves. Title page lacking, replaced in handwriting. 30 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal open tears to several leaves, not affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Without binding.
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Collection of manuscripts and typescripts from the estate of R. Chaim Yosef Isser HaLevi Gad – drafts of works he published.
Included: two manuscript volumes, handwritten by Rabbi Gad – selections from various works on the Torah; dozens of handwritten leaves from drafts of other works; four typescript volumes – drafts of early works published by Rabbi Gad (commentary of R. Isaiah di Trani on the Book of Yeshayahu and on Ketuvim, commentary of R. Joseph Kara on Neviim and Ketuvim); typewritten leaves; printer's sheets of the commentary of R. Isaiah di Trani on the Book of Yeshayahu; proofs for a work on Kohelet.
R. Chaim Yosef Isser HaLevi Gad (1880-1969), a Torah scholar who published numerous works of Rishonim. Born in Kovno, he immigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1913 and then to Israel in 1955.
6 volumes (two manuscripts and four typescripts) + hundreds of unbound leaves. Size and condition vary.
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