Auction 89 - Rare and Important Items

Shaar HaKavanot – Jerusalem, 1902 – Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar

Opening: $2,000
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Sold for: $4,250
Including buyer's premium
Shaar HaKavanot, sixth of eight "gates", which R. Chaim Vital composed from the teachings of his teacher the Arizal, "who received from the mouth of Eliyahu". Jerusalem: published by R. Menchen Heilprin and R. Shlomo Moussaieff, in the press of R. Yitzchak Nachum Levy, 1902. Title page printed in purple and gold. Bound with: Yafeh Shaah, by R. Shlomo son of R. Yehuda HaKohen. Jerusalem, 1902.
Copy of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. Stamps of the rebbe on the title page and on several other leaves, from his tenures as rabbi of Karoly (Carei) and Orsheva (Irshava).
Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), a leader of his generation, president of the Edah HaChareidit and leader of American Orthodox Jewry, one of the founding pillars of Chassidic Jewry after the Holocaust. Born in Sighet, he was the son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov, and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev, who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. After his marriage to the daughter of Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Polaniec, he settled in Satmar and taught Torah and Chassidut to an elite group of disciples and followers. He served as rabbi of Irshava, Karoly (Carei; from 1925), and Satmar (Satu Mare; from 1934), managing in each of these places a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. During the Holocaust, he was rescued through the famous Kastner Train, and after a journey through Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel, he reached the United States, where he established the largest Chassidic group in the world.
[1], 111, [2] leaves; [1], 24 leaves. 36 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, wear, creases and some tears. New leather binding. Leaves from other books enclosed (possibly also from the library of the rebbe of Satmar).
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