Online Auction 42 - Chabad
Special Chabad Auction in Honor of Chag HaGeulah Yud-Tes Kislev – Rosh Hashana of Chassidut - Marking the Date in which Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi was Released from Czarist Imprisonment
First edition, printed in the lifetime of the author the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch.
A fundamental book clarifying many concepts of the Arizal's Kabbalah, according to Chassidic teachings. The commentaries to the Zohar, which the Baal HaTanya imparted to his sons and the elite of his disciples on Shabbat eves, were recorded by his son Rebbe Dov Ber, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch, and approved by the Baal HaTanya.
Important copy. Ownership inscriptions (Hebrew) by Rabbi Yodel of Vilna – great-grandson of Rabbi Eliyahu Pesseles (cousin of the Gaon of Vilna), and great-grandson of Rabbi Shmuel Av Beit Din of Vilna – last rabbi of Vilna at the time of the Gaon of Vilna, who famously took in as guests the Alter Rebbe and Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, as they arrived in Vilna to argue the case for Chassidus before the Gaon of Vilna: "Yodel of Vilna grandson of Rabbi… Eliyahu Pesseles"; "Yodel of Vilna grandson of Rabbi… Shmuel Rabbi of… the capital Vilna"; "Yodel son of R. Naphtali Herz of Vilna". Rabbi Yodel of Vilna, son of Rebbetzin Libe, daughter of Rabbi Yosef, son of Rabbi Eliyahu Pesseles; Rebbetzin Libe's mother, Gitel, was the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel, Av Beit Din of Vilna. Rabbi Yodel's father, Naphtali Herz, son of Rabbi Yisrael Isser, was a prominent member of the Jewish community in Vilna, who passed after 1809.
[4], 139; 57 ff. 20.5 cm. Bluish paper. Good condition. Stains, including dampstains and minor ink stains. Open tear to corner of title page, minor damage to text. Some worming, not affecting text. Few creases and minor wear. Stamps. Inscriptions. Leaves trimmed unevenly. Old leather binding. Wear and blemishes to binding. New spine.
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Imrei Binah, explanations on the topics of Kriyat Shema, Tzitzit and Tefillin, based on Kabbalah and Chassidic teachings, by R. Dov Ber, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch. Kopust (Kopys): R. Yisrael Yoffe, prominent disciple of the Baal HaTanya, [1821].
First edition, printed in the lifetime of the author the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch.
Imrei Binah is considered the most profound of the books composed and published by the Mitteler Rebbe. The main part of the book is dedicated to clarifying the kabbalistic concepts of Yichuda Ilaa and Yichuda Tataa, based on the teachings of the author's father – the Baal HaTanya.
The Mitteler Rebbe published ten compositions during the course of his life, which he stated were each intended for a different kind of Chasid. His book Imrei Binah was directed at the most profound scholars, and he once even stated that he had written it for his disciple R. Yekutiel Liepler. Rebbe Maharash of Lubavitch related that he was once experiencing difficulty in grasping chapters 32 and 37 of the book, and he approached his father the Tzemach Tzedek for help in understanding them. However, his father instructed him to go ask R. Yekutiel (Rebbe Rayatz, Limud HaChassidut, p. 30).
Reputedly, the Divrei Chaim of Sanz would study the book Imrei Binah every night before going to sleep (Sheloshet HaRo'im, Brooklyn 2004, p. 320). The Divrei Chaim even quotes it in his book Divrei Chaim on the Torah, Parashat Vayakhel (p. 28b).
Ownership inscription.
[2], 21; 56, [1], 55-140 ff. Mostly bluish paper. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains and ink stains. Minor marginal open tears to some leaves, restored with paper. Inscriptions. Stamps. Fine new leather binding.
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First edition, printed in the lifetime of the author the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch.
The book comprises two parts. The first part is entitled Shaar HaEmunah, and discusses the topics of the Exodus from Egypt, the eating of Matzah and the Splitting of the Sea. The second part, named Shaar HaYichud, contains a concise explanation of the kabbalistic notions of Hishtalshelut HaOlamot and Sefirot.
4, [7], 133, [1]; 57 ff. 16.5 cm. Bluish paper. Good condition. Stains, including minor dampstains. Tears and worming to title page and few additional leaves, professionally restored with paper (affected text restored in handwriting). Ownership inscriptions and stamps to several pages; censorship stamp to final page. Inscriptions. Fine new leather binding.
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On the page headings, this work is titled "Sha'ar HaBechira" [literally meaning: The Gate of Choice]. It was first published as part I of the Mitteler Rebbe's book "Sha'ar Hateshuva VeHatefila" (Shklov, 1817).
[1], 2-8, [1] ff. Approx. 17.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor wear. New leather binding (incorrect imprint on spine).
Imprint according to "Sefer Hatoldos" (Brooklyn, 1976),
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[1], 2-4, 9-21, [1] ff. 17.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. New leather binding (incorrect imprint on spine).
Imprint according to "Sefer Hatoldos" (Brooklyn, 1976), p. 191.
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Sefer Torat Chayim on the Book of Bereshit, commentary on the essays of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the Baal HaTanya, by his son R. Dov Ber– the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch. Warsaw: R. Nathan Schriftgiesser, 1866. Two parts in one volume. First edition of part II.
Part I: Bereshit – Chaye Sara. Part II: Toldot – Vayechi.
Ownership inscriptions by the grandson of the author, Rabbi Mordechai Dov Ber Slonim of Hebron.
Part I: [2], 141 ff.; Part II: [1], 108 ff. 26.5 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains. Worming to several leaves. Inscriptions and stamps. New leather binding.
Rabbi Mordechai Dov Ber Slonim was born in Lubavitch in 1840; son of Rabbi Yaakov Slonim and Rebbetzin Menucha Rachel, daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe, grand-daughter of the Alter Rebbe, the Baal HaTanya. From his father's side, Rabbi Mordechai Dov Ber was 10th generation to the Maharsha. His facial features famously bore a great resemblance to his grandfather's, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch. In 1844-1845 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, and settled with his family in Hebron, where he became the director of Kollel Chabad in Eretz Israel, and a prominent member of the local Chabad community. Several times he visited Lubavitch, and developed close relations with the Rebbe Maharash, and later with his son, the Rebbe Rashab (who referred to him in his letters as "my son-in-law"). Rabbi Slonim died in 1915, and was buried in Hebron.
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Sefer Shaarei Teshuvah was first printed in Shklov, in 1817-1818, in the lifetime of the Mitteler Rebbe, in two separate parts ("gates"), which were titled "Shaar Hateshuva VeHatefilah". The present edition, printed in Zhitomir, was the first to publish the two parts of the book in a single volume, which from then on was titled "Shaarei Teshuvah" . A third part, titled "Derech Chaim", was printed separately in Kopust (1819).
Ownership inscription on title page by Rabbi Schneur Zalman Blesofsky (1921-2005), Gabbai in the Synagogue and Beis Midrash of the Rebbe in 770.
[2], 2-4, 6-74; [2], 3-69 ff. Lacking leaf [5] of the first sequence. 18 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains. Open tears to inner margins of first title page (slightly affecting title page border), and several additional leaves – restored with paper. Leaves trimmed, affecting headings of a few leaves. New binding.
* Ateret Rosh, Chassidic homilies for the High Holidays – Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Shabbat Shuva. [Munich]: Kehot, 1948. Facsimile of the Johannesburg edition. Two title pages; publisher's foreword by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
142 pp. 19 cm. Good condition. Inscriptions. Stamp. Original binding. Minor tear to upper part of spine.
* Ner Mitzvah V'Torah Or – part I: Shaar HaEmunah, and part II: Shaar HaYichud. Germany (in the vicinity of Munich): Kehot, 1949. Facsimile of the Lemberg (Lviv) edition. Separate title page to Shaar HaYichud. Publisher's foreword by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
[4], 293 pp. Approx. 21 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor wear. Open tear to endpaper. Original binding, slightly worn.
Ownership inscription of Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Halevi Schorr, dean of the "Torah VaDaat" Yeshive in New York, and additional inscriptions, stamps and stickers.
Handwritten glosses.
Enclosed: "Kuntres Ramach [248] Otiot" – aphorisms, tales and stories of the Rebbes of Chabad. Date and name of printer not indicated. Incomplete copy.
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Sefer Torat Chayim, printed in Shanghai shortly after the Holocaust for the benefit of the Chabad Chassidim among "She'erit HaPletah", by the son-in-law of Rebbe Rayatz, director and editor-in-chief of the Kehot Publication Society, Menachem Mendel Schneerson – the future Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Ownership stamps: Rabbi Meshulam Zalman Schechter (1924-2014), during his period of Shlicus as Rabbi of the Chabad community in Massachusetts.
Part I: [2], 141, [1] ff.; Part II: [1], 108, [1] ff. 26.5 cm. Good condition. Marginal open tear to one leaf, not affecting text. Stamps. New leather binding.
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