Manuscript, Baruch She'amar – Tikun Tefillin by Rabbi Avraham ben Rabbi Moshe of Sinsheim, with glosses by Rabbi Shimshon ben Rabbi Eliezer called the Baruch She'amar. [Ashkenazi writing, c. 18th century].
The book Baruch She'amar is one of the foremost sources of Torah rulings regarding the laws of Tefillin. The book is actually composed of two works written by two early Torah scholars (Rishonim): the foundation of the composition is Tikun Tefillin written by Rabbi Avraham of Sinsheim, a disciple of the Maharam of Rottenberg who was "the leading Tefillin scribe in his time and after him". Additions and glosses on the Maharam's work were written by Rabbi Shimshon ben Rabbi Eliezer called Rabbeinu Shimshon Baruch She'amar who lived in the following generation, the days of the Rosh and the Mordechai. The two compositions always appear as one format (no copies of the Tikun exist without Rabbi Shimshon's glosses), and with the passage of time, the name of the first author was omitted and the work is only called after Rabbi Shimshon Baruch She'amar. This work remained in manuscript form for hundreds of years and was only printed for the first time in Dubna in 1796 (afterward in Shklov in 1804, from a different manuscript). However, the leading Torah authorities such as the Beit Yosef and the Maharshal were familiar with the book and brought excerpts of the manuscript in their writings.
This is one of the manuscripts of the book which was apparently written before the first printing of the work. It begins in the middle of the author's introduction (as it probably appeared in the copy the scribe used). Throughout the manuscript, a typographic separation was introduced between the body of the work and the glosses of the Baruch She'amar. Written on Leaf 34/a: "Conclusion of the compilation of Tefillin which I have compiled… Shimshon bar Eliezer called Baruch She'amar", however after that, he writes more compilations on the laws of Tefillin.
42 leaves. 22 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Spotting. Wear and tears around the leaf's edges. Contemporary cardboard binding, worn and damaged.

Manuscript, novellae on treatises of Choshen Mishpat, Edut and laws of Ketubot. Askenazi writing [beginning of 19th century].
A section from a composition handwritten by the author. Judging by the content and style of writing, the author a great Torah scholar from the area of Lithuania-Poland.
34 leaves, approximately 18 cm. Fair condition, spotting and wear, faded ink on some pages. The leaves are cutoff at the bottom (missing text).

Two notebooks in the handwriting of Rabbi Moshe Freidiger. [Budapest], 1852.
Sermon for Passover and sermon for Shabbat Parshat Miketz after Chanuka, Ketubot in "Yiddish-Deitch". On the title page of each notebook is a date and signature of Rabbi Moshe Freidiger in Hebrew and Hungarian.
Rabbi Moshe Freidiger, author of "Moshe Yedaber" (1818-1897), son of Rabbi Pinchas Leib Ra'avad of Budapest, astounding Torah scholar and outstanding speaker who refused to fill a rabbinical position. Served as community leader of the Yere’im community in Budapest. His firstborn, Rabbi Avraham Freidiger was the head of the Budapest community (son in law of Rabbi Yitzchak Leib Sofer son of the Ktav Sofer), father of Rabbi Pinchas David Freidiger, (son in law of the Pressburg Rabbi, author of the “Da’at Sofer”).
Two notebooks, [15] leaves; [17] leaves; 18 cm. Good condition. Spotting and wear.

Long letter of words of Torah, on the treatise of women reciting blessings when performing mitzvoth, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Yitzchak Tobias. Ujhely, 1927. The letter was sent to "My disciple the sharp young man… Avraham Avli HaCohen Rappaport".
Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Yitzchak Tobias, an extraordinary Torah scholar, served as dayan in the city of Ujhely. He died in Auschwitz in 1944 [is mentioned in the list of those who perished as Herman Tobias]. See the Sefer Zicharon (book of commemoration) of the Ujhely community (p.75 in the part written in Hungarian).
4 pages, 34 cm. Good condition, tears.

Manuscript: Responsa on Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah and Choshen Mishpat. By Rabbi Mordechai Neta Margolin, Av Beit Din of Snovsk (Russia, Chernihiv district). With a letter of approbation handwritten and signed by Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz, Av Beit Din of Minsk, Tamuz 1923.
A complete work arranged for print, by Rabbi Mordechai Neta Margolin, an outstanding Torah scholar and a Chabad Chassid. He served as Torah authority and Rabbi of the city of Snovsk for more than 40 years. Already in 1882, he received a response from the Netziv of Volozhin (Meshiv Davar responsa, Part 2 Siman 63). The manuscript includes several responsa, written to Rabbi Chaim Eliezer HaCohen Bichovsky [a Chabad Chassid who lived in Snovsk and later moved to Jerusalem. There, in 1924, he published the book Ginzei Nistarot, derived from the treasures of the Cherson Geniza].
The responsa includes a responsum addressed to "The Gaon, the Tzaddik, author of the Chafetz Chaim, at the time he resided in Snovsk" [The Chafetz Chaim arrived in Snovsk with his family and his Yeshiva at the end of World War I, during the winter of 1920. Snovsk was their last refuge during the war before they could return to Radin], and a responsa concerning halachic queries of "Rabbi Eliezer [Kaplan], son-in-law of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch [Levinson], son-in-law of the Chafetz Chaim". Among other things, he mentions matters shown to him by "My friend, very clever and great in Torah and fear of Heaven Rabbi Naftali [Trop], teacher in the Yeshiva of the Chafetz Chaim".
The approbation was written by the renowned Torah scholar Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz (1859-1924), who in his youth was known as the "Genius of Kiev" and studied in Slutzk from the author of Beit HaLevi and in the Volozhin Yeshiva. He was a son-in-law of Rabbi Yerucham Leib "The Great Rabbi of Minsk", author of Or Gadol and his successor in the Minsk rabbinate. He was known as one of the most prominent Lithuanian rabbis and he too was dubbed the "Great Rabbi of Minsk". After the eruption of the communist revolution in 1917, the rabbi was jailed in a Russian prison and released after some time but this did not dampen his spirit and he continued leading his community just as before, in spite of the government's persecution. The remnants of his Torah novellae were covertly smuggled from Russia and printed in the book Mishnat Eliezer (Jerusalem, 1962). This is a rare letter written at that time, in the last half year of his life.
2-55 leaves, 21.5 cm. Fair condition, wear, dirt stains and fungus damage. Sewn notebook, unbound + a glued letter of approbation, 21 cm. Very good condition.