Auction 77 - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial

Collection of Responsa and Torah Novellae – Hungary and Romania, ca. 1910s-1930s

Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Collection of handwritten leaves, letters and Torah novellae from various writers – from the archive of R. David Sperber, author of Afarkasta D'Anya. [Hungary and Romania (Transylvania), ca. 1910s-1930s].
The items include:
• Draft of a halachic responsum, signed "Shlomo Leib" (possibly a transcript of a responsum by R. Shlomo Leib Tabak, dayan and posek in Sighet, author of Erech Shai).
• Halachic responsum (3 pages) on laws of Shechitah.
• Letter of Torah thoughts, handwritten and signed by R. Ezra Leib Farkash. Satmar, 1924.
• The final part (4 pages) of a multipage responsum, signed by R. Yoel Katz Rabbi of Ardud, regarding Jewish soldiers who are compelled to lay Tefillin and recite the morning prayers while it is still night.
• Printed leaf with letters by R. Yaakov Koppel Reich Rabbi of Budapest and R. Yeshaya Silberstein Rabbi of Weitzen, with a form to be filled out by soldiers going to the warfront (WWI), to prevent their wives from being left as agunot. Weitzen, [1915].
• Other handwritten leaves.
9 paper items (approx. 20 written pages). Size and condition vary.
Rabbinic Letters
Rabbinic Letters