Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Manuscript, Judeo-Persian lexicon of Mishnaic words. [Persia], 1915-1916.
This work, authored by R. Shlomo Ababa son of Nuriel, is known in Persia as Michlal HaMishnah. The present volume covers three orders: Zera'im, Nashim and Kodashim.
Neat Persian script; words of the Mishnah vocalized. Color illustrations and ornaments (decorative element at beginning of each tractate in Orders Nashim and Kodashim).
Orders Nashim and Kodashim written on smaller leaves.
[38] leaves. Size varies, approx. 17-19 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and wear. Tears, affecting text in several places. New binding.
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Special Service for Passover Evening, for Jewish soldiers. Published by the Jewish War Services Committee for India, Calcutta, 1918. English.
Printed for a prayer service conducted at the Magen David synagogue in Calcutta. Includes a prayer in memory of those who fell during the war and a prayer in honor of the British royal family. On the last page – an instruction that all community members remain in their places at the end of the service until the soldiers leave the building.
[1], 22, [1] pages (including pink wrappers). Approx. 18 cm. Good condition. Minor stains.
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Manuscript, Sefer Goralot Shel Urim V'Tumim. [India, ca. 19th century].
Complete manuscript, on blue paper, in neat Oriental script. Includes many charts for performing a Goral Urim V'Tumim. The introduction states that "these are the Urim and Tumim used during the second Temple, composed by the seventy elders of the times of the King of Egypt… this book contains wonderful and great esoteric secrets".
[19], 72 pages. 16.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding.
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Judeo-Arabic translation (Sharh) of the Five Books of the Torah. [Bombay, ca. 1865]. Lithographed.
Printed without a title page. Lithographed manuscript. The book is written in Oriental, semi-cursive script, with the exception of the first 17 pages, which are written in square letters.
Colophon on the last page: "Completed all the Five Books of the Torah… the scribe Yechezkel Abed Yom Tov Moshe".
136; 112; 100; 143; 115 pages. Lacking pages 113-122 from the second sequence (Shemot; originally: 122 pages. The weekly portion of Pekudei is lacking). Approx. 16 cm. Fair-good condition. Damage and large tears, affecting text on approx. five first leaves, with tape repairs. Tape repairs to several other leaves. Stains. Worming, affecting text on several leaves. Old, damaged binding.
Yaari, Hadefus HaIvri B'Artzot Hamizrach, Bombay, no. 21.
Rare. To the best of our knowledge, this book has never been offered at auction.
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Seder Berachah Acharonah, lithograph poster. Published by Avraham Meir son of R. Yaakov Kopil HaKohen Neiman. Harbin: N. A. Frankel ("Типо-лит. Н. А. Френкеля"), 1934.
Al HaMichyah blessing with Yiddish instructions, set in a black and orange border, with medallions containing Stars of David. The border is surmounted by a large Star of David containing hands raised for the Priestly Blessing, flanked by a pair of lions.
In the early 20th century, Harbin became an administrative center situated on the railway from Russia to China, prompting the immigration of Russian Jews. In 1908, about 8000 Jews were living in the city. The flow of Russian refugees increased after WWI and in the early 1930s, the community peaked at 15,000 Jewish residents, with schools, hospitals, old-age homes, a library, etc., also providing organized assistance to refugees. During these years, dozens of Jewish-owned companies operated in Harbin and the community prospered as a center of Jewish culture. Newspapers were printed, plays were produced and in 1927, the community hosted the first Far-East Zionist convention. At the end of the Russian occupation in 1928, an economic crisis hit the city and the situation of Jews took a turn for the worst. Under the Japanese occupation (1931-1945) the Jewish community was persecuted and its freedom was limited. After WWII, Jews emigrated from the city until organized Jewish life in Harbin came to an end altogether.
[1] leaf. 25X39 cm. Fair condition. Bottom of leaf torn along entire width, reinforced with tape. Tears and open tears, some repaired with paper. Pinholes. Stains. Folding marks.
Not listed in the NLI catalog nor in the OCLC.
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Sale deed recording transfer of property ownership. Teheran, Adar 1928. Judeo-Persian, some Hebrew.
Ink on cloth.
Sale deed of a two-story building in Teheran, including appraisal details.
The deed is handwritten on a large piece of cloth, and is signed by the buyer, seller and witnesses. Inscriptions in Persian (in Arabic scrip) dated 1965 on verso, regarding the sale of the property to new buyers (with signatures in Arabic, Hebrew and fingerprints).
Deeds handwritten on cloth are rare.
58X40 cm. Fair-good condition. Folding marks. Two dampstains across cloth, slightly affecting text.
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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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