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Lot 260 Manuscript of Rabbi Eliezer Zusman Sofer Av Beit Din of Paks

Three leaves in the handwriting of Rabbi Eliezer Zusman Sofer Av Beit Din of Paks. [Paks, after 1891]. Three leaves. Three pa
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Three leaves in the handwriting of Rabbi Eliezer Zusman Sofer Av Beit Din of Paks. [Paks, after 1891].
Three leaves. Three pages of novellae on Talmudical treatises [the novellae were later integrated into his works with slight changes, see attached material]; short inscriptions that he wrote for himself on various subjects [we have not been able to find if they too were later integrated into any of his other writings]. Written on one page is the text to be written on the tombstone of Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Kern in Rabbi Sofer's handwriting [apparently also his wording].
Rabbi Eliezer Zusman Sofer (1828-1903, HaChatam Sofer U'Talmidav, pp. 63-65), a prominent Hungarian rabbi. His Sandak was the Chatam Sofer, and he also merited studying Torah from him for a short time. After his death, he continued his studies with the Chatam Sofer's son the Ktav Sofer and later became a close disciple of the Maharam Shick. After his marriage, he moved to the city of Paks near his father-in-law Rabbi Yoel Unger Av Beit Din of Halas. There his name began to spread as one of the chief speakers representing Charedi Jews in Hungary. Due to the esteem in which he was held, Rabbi Sofer received rabbinic writs from the cities adjacent to Halas, Földes and Szabadszállás, which agreed to his serving as rabbi of their city on the condition that he visit them periodically and deliver sermons in their cities. In 1886, after the death of his father-in-law, Rabbi Sofer succeeded him in the Paks rabbinate while the cities in the vicinity of Halas continued to be faithful and keep him as their rabbi in spite of the long distance between them. He served as Rabbi of Paks until his death. He wrote many books and was primarily known for his books Yalkut Eliezer, HaMikneh and Et Sofer.
Rabbi Lipman Kern mentioned above was one of the community leaders in Földes and his signature appears on the official rabbinical writ sent from that city to Rabbi Eliezer Zusman Sofer. See attached material.
[5] pages. 34 cm. Brittle paper. Fair-poor condition. Tears (with damage to text). Stains.
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Lot 261 Collection of Manuscripts and Other Items – Rabbi Moshe Reich Av Beit Din of Mediaş and his Sons

Collection of items that belonged to the Reich family, Rabbi Moshe Reich Av Beit Din of Mediaş [son of Rabbi Koppel Reich, Ra
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Collection of items that belonged to the Reich family, Rabbi Moshe Reich Av Beit Din of Mediaş [son of Rabbi Koppel Reich, Rabbi of Budapest] and his sons Rabbi Zvi Reich [who served as Rabbi of Mediaş after the Holocaust] and Rabbi Yitzchak Reich.
• Der Mosesstab –Mate Moshe, by L. Wollner, Vienna, 1882. (German). Signature and stamps of Rabbi Moshe Reich Av Beit Din of Mediaş, and signatures of his son Rabbi Yitzchak Reich. Handwritten inscriptions [in German]. • Manuscript, sermons in German. • Three handwritten volumes, novellae and homiletics on various topics. Mostly written by Rabbi Zvi Reich of Mediaş (Novellae from 1938 are in one volume and from 1941 are in the second volume). • Another manuscript, index of responsa in various books of responsa. • Photograph of Rabbi Moshe Reich and photographs of his son. • Letters of recommendation and other documents (government letters and other documents (government certificates etc.).
Varied size and condition.
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Lot 262 Rabbi Yitzchak Rosenberg, Author of Gevurot Yitzchak – Manuscript / Family Archive

• Large collection of manuscripts and leaves prepared for printing, novellae on Talmudical treatises, aggada and halacha, by
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• Large collection of manuscripts and leaves prepared for printing, novellae on Talmudical treatises, aggada and halacha, by Rabbi Yitzchak Rosenberg, Author of Gevurot Yitzchak. The collection was not thoroughly examined and possibly includes parts which were never printed. • Archive of Rabbi Rosenberg's family, composed of documents, letters, photographs and various paper items. Among them are many letters to and from Rabbi Yosef Efrati regarding various issues. • 17 postcards sent after the Holocaust to the Rosenberg family in Hodász. Hungarian, Romanian, Hebrew and Yiddish.
Rabbi Yitzchak Rosenberg (1860-1944, Otzar HaRabbanim 11028) was a leading Hungarian rabbi, Torah genius and tzaddik. Author of Gevurot Yitzchak. Son of Rabbi Yosef Yuzpa Rosenberg, Av Beit Din of Püspökladány (Hungary) and author of Yad Yosef and Revid HaZahav. Disciple of the leading disciples of the Chatam Sofer, son-in-law of Rabbi Baruch Lichtenstein son of Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein of Kolomyya. Served 60 year as Rabbi of the Hungarian city Hodász. The Nazis banished him and his community to Austria where he died.
Hundreds of leaves, varied size and condition.
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Lot 263 Manuscript on the 613 Mitzvot, Kanizsa 1802

Manuscript, complete work on the 613 mitzvot, Ashkenazi handwriting (Hungary). Ownership inscriptions from 1802 of Rabbi &qu
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Manuscript, complete work on the 613 mitzvot, Ashkenazi handwriting (Hungary).
Ownership inscriptions from 1802 of Rabbi "Moshe Blau" from the city of Kanizsa (Hungary).
Approximately 89 written pages. 30.5 cm. Good-fair condition, wear and ink damages. Unbound.
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Lot 264 Leaf of Chidushei Torah in the Handwriting of Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz Author of Seder Mishnah

Leaf of Chidushei Torah in the handwriting of Ga’on Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz author of Seder Mishnah. Written on both sides, cont
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Leaf of Chidushei Torah in the handwriting of Ga’on Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz author of Seder Mishnah. Written on both sides, contains four sections of innovative Chidushei Sugiyot. Three of them pertain to matters in tractate Sukkah, and fourth for Shmini Atzeret (status of the festival of Shmini Atzeret in the Halachah).
Famous Ga’on Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz (1740-1818), among prominent rabbis of Hungary, author of Seder Mishnah, son of Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi of Kelin author of Machatzit HaShekel. From 1782 served as Av Beit Din in Assad, and from 1786 served as Av Beit Din in Prostitz, where he formed a close friendship with Rabbi Moshe Sofer author of Chatam Sofer [see “Personalities in Responsa of Chatam Sofer, clause 113]. Served in rabbinate and taught Torah in various cities (Pest, Kolin and Bonyhád). These letters were written during period of study of one of his disciples in the Kolin yeshiva, Rabbi Aharon Kornfeld (1795-1882, eventually served as Av Beit Din in Jeníkov, Bohemia. Author of Tziyunim LeDivrei Kabbalah, Prague, 1865).
[2] pages. 32 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Tears on margins with damage to text. Adhesive tape restorations.
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Lot 265 Handwritten Leaf by Rabbi Yoseph Chaim, Author of Ben Ish Chai – With a Request for Shemira

A handwritten leaf, outline for a sermon on repentance and blowing the shofar. Autographic writing by Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of B
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A handwritten leaf, outline for a sermon on repentance and blowing the shofar. Autographic writing by Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of Baghdad, author of Ben Ish Chai. [Baghdad, c. 1890s].
Rabbi Yoseph Chaim of Baghdad, author of Ben Ish Chai and numerous other important books (1833-1909), son of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim ben Rabbi Moshe Chaim, Rabbi of Bagdad. Disciple of Rabbi Abdallah Somekh. After his father's death in 1859, at the age of 26, Rabbi Yoseph Chaim delivered a sermon in the Great Synagogue instead of his father, and continued to give a discourse every Shabbat for fifty years. He became world famous as "one of a generation" in his knowledge of the revealed and hidden and was renowned for his great holiness. He wrote Rav Pe'alim, Torah Lishma, Ben Ish Chai, Ben Ish Chayil, Ben Yehoyada, Od Yoseph Chai, Leshon Chachamim, Aderet Eliyahu, Chasdei Avot etc.
2 pages, 13.5 cm. Very good condition.
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Lot 266 Manuscript, Seder Netinat HaGet – Izmir, 1700s – Signatures of Jerusalem Rabbis

Handwritten booklet, Seder Netinat HaGet. Izmir, 18th century. At the end of the booklet are the "Customs of our City I
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Handwritten booklet, Seder Netinat HaGet. Izmir, 18th century.
At the end of the booklet are the "Customs of our City Izmir". Next to the title, in a slightly different handwriting: "From the Great Beit Din of Rabbi Mayo and Rabbi Chazan and Maharit Danon".
On the last leaf are customs on the matter of writing the Arab name Zirgani, and the writer brings a story which "happened in Izmir and came before Rabbi Mayo and Rabbi Chazan and Maharit Danon and they did not write it in the Get...".
The binding of the manuscript was used as an envelope which was apparently used to transfer the Get from Jerusalem [at a later time], and has an inscription written on it with the signatures of Jerusalem Rabbis Rabbi Chaim David Sornage, Rabbi Shimon Ashriki and Rabbi Chaim Ya'akov Burla, and the stamp of "Beit Din Tzedek of the Sefardi Community… Jerusalem".
[9] pages. 18 cm. Fair condition. Tears and moth damage (with damage to text).
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Lot 267 Manuscript, Halachic Ruling Permitting an Agunah to Remarry – Constantinople, 1869

Handwritten booklet, halachic ruling permitting an agunah to remarry. Constantinople, 1869. Two testimonies in Ladino about a
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Handwritten booklet, halachic ruling permitting an agunah to remarry. Constantinople, 1869.
Two testimonies in Ladino about an absent husband who disappeared in a sinking ship, with a copy of the signatures of the dayanim, Torah scholars in Constantinople: Rabbi Avraham Gershon, Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Kimchi and Rabbi Nissim Menachem Nigrin. Afterwards is a long response, permitting the woman to remarry, by Rabbi Nissim Chaim Nigrin. Apparently, the whole booklet is in his handwriting.
This halachic ruling has been printed in shortened versions and with changes in the responsa Yismach Lev by Rabbi Shalom Moshe Chai Gagin (Even HaEzer, Siman 5), who writes at length on this ruling and is joined by Jerusalem Torah scholars, Rabbi Avraham Ashkenazi and Rabbi Ya'akov Shaul Elyashar.
[11] pages. Bluish paper. 17 cm. Good condition, stains and minor wear.
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Lot 268 Halachic Responsa by Rabbi Y.S. Elyashiv

A bundle of halachic responsa sent by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, to the students of the HaNegev Yeshiva in Netivot, from 19
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A bundle of halachic responsa sent by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, to the students of the HaNegev Yeshiva in Netivot, from 1964-1965.
The responsa cover various halachic topics: the laws of Shabbat and Succah, laws of honoring a rabbi at a Purim party (it is of no avail even if the rabbi foregoes his honor), the laws of returning a stolen item and the laws of shaving the corners of the head.
Four letters handwritten and signed by Rabbi Elyashiv (one was written between the lines of the letter with the question) and two were written and signed by his son Rabbi Binyamin David Elyashiv (author of Yad Binyamin) who writes "in the name of my father".
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (1910-2012), a foremost posek for over 70 years. Known for his exceptional diligence and deep and thorough understanding of all Torah areas which enabled him to reach clear conclusions on any matter. During the last 20 years of his life, he led Torah Jewry in Israel and abroad. However, even earlier, he was involved in rabbinic and halachic matters of various communities. Rabbi Elyashiv did not print his Torah novellae by himself but his disciples printed the “comments” from his lectures and compiled some of his responsa in the four volumes of Kovetz Teshuvot. These responsa were not printed ibid, and are apparently unknown.
6 letters, approximately 8 pages. Varied size and condition, some of the leaf margins are worn with damage to text.
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Lot 269 Manuscript of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv

Drafts of letters and Torah novellae in the handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, c. 1970s Question sent to Rabbi Elyas
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Drafts of letters and Torah novellae in the handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, c. 1970s
Question sent to Rabbi Elyashiv by Rabbi Mordechai Elmaliach Rabbi of Kiryat Gat (regarding immersion of utensils which were sold at a Mechirat Chametz) and the draft of Rabbi Elyashiv's response in which he mentions the decision of his mechutan Rabbi Y.Y. Kanievsky on this matter. Also a draft of Torah novellae on the laws of blowing shofar and a draft of a letter on behalf of Yad L'Achim, a Pe'elim organization.
4 leaves, 6 handwritten pages. Varying size. Good condition.
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Lot 270 Handwritten Leaves – Yizkor Prayers for Rabbanim – Europe, 18th Century

Two handwritten leaves, "E-l Maleh Rachamim" prayers written in memory of Rabbis who had died, [Europe, c. 18th cen
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Two handwritten leaves, "E-l Maleh Rachamim" prayers written in memory of Rabbis who had died, [Europe, c. 18th century].
The leaves are written on both sides in scribal writing (partially vowelized). On each page is a prayer beginning with the words "El Maleh Rachamim". Apparently the prayers were written for several Rabbis and various important figures from an unidentified community in Europe. First names and dates of death are mentioned.
[4] pages. 25 cm. Fair condition. Stains, wear and tear to margins, moth damage.
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Lot 271 Accounting Notebooks – Documentation of Pilfering from Donations – Jerusalem, 1920s

Eight accounting notebooks written by a Jerusalem Jew, 1920s. Detailed listing of expenditures and income, reflecting the spi
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Eight accounting notebooks written by a Jerusalem Jew, 1920s.
Detailed listing of expenditures and income, reflecting the spirit of the times and the condition of the old Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel. Throughout the notebooks, the owners documents in detail thefts of money from his father, during many months. From the inscriptions, it is apparent that the father himself used to constantly pilfer money from the donations sent by philanthropists all over the world for yeshivot and other matters of charity. The son often tracked the income and expenditures of the money and pilfered without his father's knowledge. Detailed descriptions of amounts, with names of people, institutions and places.
8 notebooks, 14 cm. Good condition, tears and stains. Many places have cross-out lines. Worn bindings.
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