Sefer Chanah Ariel, homilies on the Torah portions according to Chabad Chassidic teachings, by Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Epstein, Rabbi of Homiel ("Reb Eizik Homler"), Berditchev: Sheftil, [1912]. First edition. Five parts in five volumes.
Chassidic and Kabbalistic essays and homilies, in the tradition of Chabad.
Five parts in five volumes:

* Part I (Bereshit and Chanukka): [3], 75, ff. + [1] printed front wrapper.

* Part II (Shemot and Purim): [1], 76 ff.

* Part III (Vayikra, Lag BaOmer and Shir HaShirim): [2], 51 ff. + [1] printed front wrapper + blank wrapper.

* Part IV (BaMidbar): [2], 69 ff.

* Part V (Devarim and responsa): [2], 56; 6 ff.
25 cm. Good condition. Stains, including dark stains. Stamps. Few inscriptions. New, matching, leather bindings.
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Sefer Ketzos HaShulchan, Commentary on Shulchan Aruch – Orach Chaim, following the teachings of Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Baal HaTanya, and the Tzemach Tzedek, and Chabad-Lubavitch customs. Jerusalem: [1926]-1935. First edition. Five parts in five volumes.
Approbations by Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Naeh, Rabbi David Tzvi Chen, Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Eliezerov, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, and others.
Five parts in five volumes.

* Part I (1926): [4], 81, [2] ff.;

* Part II (1928): [3], 106, [2] ff.;

* Part III (1931): [4], 75, [1] ff.;

* Part IV (1933): [4], 62 ff.;

* Part V (1935): [4], 68 ff.
13 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Minor worming to vol. I. Stamps of Rabbi Yitzchak Eliezer Benkovitz.
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One-hundred-dollar bill received from Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The bill was given to R. Shaul Shimon Deutsch, who inscribed it (in pen): "From the rebbe, contribution towards the costs of the meal in honor of the Shloshim of Yankel Rosenbaum".

On the night of 9th Elul 1991, a group of some twenty African American youths surrounded Yankel Rosenbaum, a 29-year-old Australian student studying at the time in the Central Tomchei Temimim yeshiva at 770, cruelly beating him up and fracturing his skull. One of the youths, 16-year-old Lemrick Nelson, stabbed Rosenbaum several times in his back. Rosenbaum was rushed to hospital, where he passed away several hours later from his wounds.
Several hours before the attack, two African American children were hit by a car which was part of the motorcade accompanying the Lubavitcher rebbe. The driver, a 22-year-old Chabad Chassid, went through a red light and struck two children – a girl named Angela Cato was seriously injured, while Gavin Cato was killed on the spot.
The accident immediately sparked what was later called the Crown Heights Riots – a series of riots in the Crown Heights neighborhood, Brooklyn NY. For three days, (9-11 Elul 1991), the neighborhood Jews suffered violent attacks from African American youths – stores were torched and looted, houses and cars were destroyed, with extensive damage to Jewish property. During the course of the riots, three people were killed (including Yankel Rosenbaum), and many dozens of Jews were injured.
R. Shaul Shimon Deutsch, a close friend of Rosenbaum, published a tribute in his memory in one of the Jewish newspapers, under the title: The Shabbos Guest – Yankel Rosenbaum Zt"l. In the tribute, R. Deutsch describes the deep friendship they shared, Rosenbaum's academic work on the history of Polish Jewry, and the Shabbos meals they shared at the Deutsch's. R. Deutsch concludes his tributes with the words: (English. See enclosed article).
According to the enclosed letter from R. Deutsch, after the Lubavitcher Rebbe read the tribute, he instructed him to made a meal in honor of the Shloshim of Yankel Rosenbaum, and gave him the present bill as a contribution towards the costs of the meal.
Good condition.