Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Collection of Letters and Handwritten Torah Novellae - Polish Rabbis
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Collection of letters of Torah novellae handwritten by Polish rabbis.
• Long letter (two large pages) of Torah thoughts handwritten and signed by Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak Yissachar HaLevi Leventhal. [He mentions his father, who died that year]. Brisk (Poland) Tishrei 1918. Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak Yissachar Leventhal (1875-1944) Av Beit Din of Brisk (village near Włocławek) and Pułtusk, son of Rabbi Efraim Shraga Av Beit Din of Uniejow, Kalisch district, Poland] author of Chemdat Efraim, son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Krishik Av Beit Din of Neustadt-Plonsk. Survived the Holocaust and ascended to Jerusalem. Some of his books: Ateret Rosh and Zichron Yissachar on Mishnayot Zera'im and Moed.
• Long letter (3 pages), about the dispute over the position of shochet and bodek by a Alexander Chassid, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yisrael Nissan Kuperstock. Przysucha, Kislev 1900. Rabbi Yisrael Nissan Kuperstock (1858-1930) one of the elder Rabbis of Polish Chassidism, descended from the Rebbes of Alexander. Served in the Rabbinate for over 40 years in Przysucha, Ryazan and Makó. In 1925, he ascended to Jerusalem, where he published his book Ani Ben Pachma responsa and established the Alexander Yismach Yisrael Yeshiva.
• Long handwritten letter (4 pages, middle of the letter, lacking the end), responsa on various Torah topics. Written on official stationery of Rabbi "Shmuel Yehuda Leib Weingot, Av Beit Din of Kowal, Warsaw district". Kowal, 1910s.
• Letter in the name of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel, handwritten and signed by his grandson Rabbi "Moshe Menachem Yosef ben Rabbi Gavriel HaLevi Ra'avad here, grandson of …Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Av Beit Din here". Lodz, 1910.
4 letters, approximately 10 handwritten pages, varied size and condition.
• Long letter (two large pages) of Torah thoughts handwritten and signed by Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak Yissachar HaLevi Leventhal. [He mentions his father, who died that year]. Brisk (Poland) Tishrei 1918. Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak Yissachar Leventhal (1875-1944) Av Beit Din of Brisk (village near Włocławek) and Pułtusk, son of Rabbi Efraim Shraga Av Beit Din of Uniejow, Kalisch district, Poland] author of Chemdat Efraim, son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Krishik Av Beit Din of Neustadt-Plonsk. Survived the Holocaust and ascended to Jerusalem. Some of his books: Ateret Rosh and Zichron Yissachar on Mishnayot Zera'im and Moed.
• Long letter (3 pages), about the dispute over the position of shochet and bodek by a Alexander Chassid, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yisrael Nissan Kuperstock. Przysucha, Kislev 1900. Rabbi Yisrael Nissan Kuperstock (1858-1930) one of the elder Rabbis of Polish Chassidism, descended from the Rebbes of Alexander. Served in the Rabbinate for over 40 years in Przysucha, Ryazan and Makó. In 1925, he ascended to Jerusalem, where he published his book Ani Ben Pachma responsa and established the Alexander Yismach Yisrael Yeshiva.
• Long handwritten letter (4 pages, middle of the letter, lacking the end), responsa on various Torah topics. Written on official stationery of Rabbi "Shmuel Yehuda Leib Weingot, Av Beit Din of Kowal, Warsaw district". Kowal, 1910s.
• Letter in the name of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel, handwritten and signed by his grandson Rabbi "Moshe Menachem Yosef ben Rabbi Gavriel HaLevi Ra'avad here, grandson of …Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Av Beit Din here". Lodz, 1910.
4 letters, approximately 10 handwritten pages, varied size and condition.
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