Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Collection of Letters – Leading Lithuanian Rabbis
Opening: $700
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Collection of various letters, by leading Lithuanian rabbis – 1888-1938.
• Letter by the "Mercaz Va'ad HaYeshivot in Vilna", (stencil-copy) with the original signature of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky. With original stamp.
• Last page of a letter (of Torah thoughts and issues regarding the rabbinate of Frankfurt am Main), handwritten and signed by Rabbi Hillel Leib Lifshitz [1844-1908, disciple of Rabbi Yisrael of Salant and friend of the Chafetz Chaim. Av Beit Din of Plungian, Suvalk and Lublin. Author of Beit Hillel on Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat. Father of Rabbi Yechezkel Lifshitz author of HaMidrash V'Hama'aseh].
• Document handwritten and signed by Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira Av Beit Din of Bobroisk [brother of Rabbi Refael Shapira Av Beit Din of Volozhin]. Authorization in the name of a mother on the marriage of her daughter "since she does not know to sign, therefore I testify to this".
• Document about fundraising for Eretz Israel. Signature and stamp of Rabbi Chaim Meir Noach HaLevi Levine Av Beit Din of Moscow [1834-1904. Son-in-law of Rabbi Eliezer Yitzchak Fried, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, later served as Torah authority in Vilna]. Signature of the influential "Kalonymus Ze'ev Wissotzky" [founder of Wissotzky Tea Co.], with a letter and lists of donors handwritten by Rabbi "Yitzchak --- emissary". Moscow, Kislev 1888].
• Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer – recommendation for supporting the grandson of Rabbi Chaim Hillel Fried, who studied from Rabbi Zelig [Braverman] in Meah She'arim. Jerusalem, 1926.
• Letter signed by Rabbi Eliezer Ze'ev Kaplan, director of Radin Yeshiva, grandson of the Chafetz Chaim. Concerning arranging an immigration certificate to Eretz Israel for several yeshiva students. Radin, 1934.
• Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yechezkel Avramsky Ga'avad of London, regarding the arrangement of a get. London, Tishrei 1937.
• Letter signed by Rabbi Hillel Vitkind head of the Navahrudak Yeshiva. Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1934.
8 letters, varied size and condition.
• Letter by the "Mercaz Va'ad HaYeshivot in Vilna", (stencil-copy) with the original signature of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky. With original stamp.
• Last page of a letter (of Torah thoughts and issues regarding the rabbinate of Frankfurt am Main), handwritten and signed by Rabbi Hillel Leib Lifshitz [1844-1908, disciple of Rabbi Yisrael of Salant and friend of the Chafetz Chaim. Av Beit Din of Plungian, Suvalk and Lublin. Author of Beit Hillel on Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat. Father of Rabbi Yechezkel Lifshitz author of HaMidrash V'Hama'aseh].
• Document handwritten and signed by Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira Av Beit Din of Bobroisk [brother of Rabbi Refael Shapira Av Beit Din of Volozhin]. Authorization in the name of a mother on the marriage of her daughter "since she does not know to sign, therefore I testify to this".
• Document about fundraising for Eretz Israel. Signature and stamp of Rabbi Chaim Meir Noach HaLevi Levine Av Beit Din of Moscow [1834-1904. Son-in-law of Rabbi Eliezer Yitzchak Fried, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva, later served as Torah authority in Vilna]. Signature of the influential "Kalonymus Ze'ev Wissotzky" [founder of Wissotzky Tea Co.], with a letter and lists of donors handwritten by Rabbi "Yitzchak --- emissary". Moscow, Kislev 1888].
• Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer – recommendation for supporting the grandson of Rabbi Chaim Hillel Fried, who studied from Rabbi Zelig [Braverman] in Meah She'arim. Jerusalem, 1926.
• Letter signed by Rabbi Eliezer Ze'ev Kaplan, director of Radin Yeshiva, grandson of the Chafetz Chaim. Concerning arranging an immigration certificate to Eretz Israel for several yeshiva students. Radin, 1934.
• Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yechezkel Avramsky Ga'avad of London, regarding the arrangement of a get. London, Tishrei 1937.
• Letter signed by Rabbi Hillel Vitkind head of the Navahrudak Yeshiva. Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1934.
8 letters, varied size and condition.
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