Manuscript of novellae and compilation of teachings of Chassidic Rebbes on the Torah and on Nevi'im [1872].
Compiled novellae on the Five Books of the Torah and on Nach (Nevi'im and Ketuvim), (Yeshaya, Ruth, Tehillim, Mishlei, Shir HaShirim, Kohelet) and compilations on the Talmud. Some of the novellae were written by the author himself. He cites novellae from known Chassidic literature (Be'er Mayim Chaim, Regel Yeshara, Avodat Yisrael, Chamat Ariel, etc.), and oral teachings in the name of the rebbes of Kosov, Ruzhyn, Belz and Rebbe Gedalya Aharon [of Illintsi].
The writer is unidentified, but from his writings, it is evident that he used to deliver Torah discourses in public at the Shabbat tables (tisch). In some of the compilations, things are cited which were "spoken at the morning meal - 8th of Adar 1872 [Shabbat Parshat Teruma, the 8th of Adar Aleph 1872]. In another place he cites a letter "from our father, from Shabbat 1872, the 12th of Cheshvan, on his 60th birthday and he prepared a "Seudat Rav Yosef" upon completing the Talmud".
More than 260 written pages. 20 cm. Thin, high-quality paper. Good condition. Few stains and wear. Fabric binding, rubbed.

Manuscript, Sefer HaMidot by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, including Shemot HaTsaddikim and an abridgement of Likutei Moharan. At the end is a compilation of piyyutim. [Aleppo? / Baghdad?, ca. 1850].
An unknown piyyut of bakashot is written before the title page: "Oneh B'et Tsar", with the author's mark: "Ezra Chazak". On a page at the end of the book is another piyyut: "Bati Legani Tsivia…" [Piyyut by Rabbi Ezra Elya Sofer, printed in books of Bakashot - see enclosed photocopy].
This item portrays an interesting phenomenon of Oriental copying of Breslov Chassidic books at an early time in which the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov had not yet spread to Oriental countries [according to the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, none of Rabbi Nachman's books had been printed in Oriental countries]. Rabbi Natan of Breslov, disciple of Rabbi Nachman, spread the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov during his travels to Eretz Israel, while passing through Istanbul, Lebanon and Alexandria. This manuscript is apparently a rare copy of books distributed in these countries by Rabbi Natan.
Owners' (apparently the writer) signature: "Avraham Yosef C. Avraham". More signatures: "Yosef Rachamim'; "I am the last redeemer S.M.S."; "Ezra Avraham Shochet"; "Shlomo Abed Shlomo Moshe Tavene" [the famous Rabbi Shlomo Tavene, born in Baghdad in 1871, appointed Rabbi of Calcutta, India. Authored and printed dozens of halachic and musar books and piyyutim]; another unidentified signature.
[2], 195, [3] leaves. 13.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear and stains. Ancient worn leather binding.
Provenance: The Sassoon family collection, Manuscript no. 1300. Pasted on the endpaper is a leaf with a typewritten self-dedication: "This Sefer HaMidot was given to me as a gift by my friend…son of the G-dly Kabbalist R' Shimon Agasi, Mr. Ezra Zion Agassi. For my good name Yehoshua Meir Moshe…".

Beit Avraham, articles on the Torah and on the Festivals and letters, by Rebbe Avraham Weinberg of Slonim. [Jerusalem, 1958].
Copy of the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz, with dozens of long handwritten glosses (some signed). On the endpapers are long notes in his handwriting. Among the leaves, is a leaf in his handwriting.
The Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz (1922-2010), disciple of the author of the Sulam and one of the hidden tsaddikim of his generation, was born in the village of Satmar and studied Torah from Rebbe Yoel of Satmar and from Rabbi Yehuda Rosner Av Beit Din of Sekelheid, author of Imrei Yehuda. During the Holocaust, he lost his family in Auschwitz, suffered abuse which later prevented him from marriage and was miraculously saved from hanging. After the liberation, he moved to Eretz Israel and settled in Tel Aviv living alone. In Eretz Israel he joined a group of kabbalists, disciples of Rebbe Yehuda Leib Ashlag author of the Sulam: Rabbi Yehuda Zvi Brandvein, Rabbi Moshe Ya'ir Weinstock and Rabbi Yoseph Weinstock. Contrary to the other disciples, Rabbi Leibowitz remained anonymous for many years but had close contact with leading Torah scholars, rabbis and rebbes of his times, such as Rabbi Aharon Rokeach of Belz, Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Sanz-Kloizenburg, etc. These great individuals held him in high esteem and some of them considered him as one of the lamed vav hidden tsaddikim. In his senior years, he moved to Bnei Brak and among those who used to visit him and learn from him were Rabbi Wosner and Rabbi Mordechai Gross. Extraordinary stories are told, of his ruach hakodesh, of his ability to "read" sins in people's faces and their reparations and of people who were cured and who were delivered from trouble by his intervention on their behalf. People say that he merited the appearance of the Prophet Eliyahu and that the souls of tsaddikim came to visit him. He was an outstanding Torah genius, proficient in revealed and hidden Torah and his letters were printed in the books: Kol Yehuda Ba'al HaKetavim, V'Zot L'Yehuda, Yizal Mayim MeDalyo, Or Levi Ziv Yehuda, etc.
[12], 277 pages (lacking title page) + [5] pages in his handwriting (on the endpapers). 23 cm. Good condition. Stains. Damages and worming to binding.

Large collection of books, Chassidic and Kabbalistic books on prayer and Halacha. From the libraries of various rebbes. With signatures, ownership inscriptions, glosses and stamps.
· Books from the library of Rebbe Avraham Yissachar Englard of Radzyn (1910-2006) - including books with ownership inscriptions by Polish Rebbes and the family of the Radomsk Rebbes: Rebbe David Moshe HaCohen Rabinowitz, the Krimilov-Sosnovitza Rebbe; Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua HaLevi Rosenfel of Oświęcim (stamp and signature); etc.
· Books from the library of Rebbe Alter Eliezer Kahana of Spinka- Zhydachiv in Jerusalem (1937-2009), and from the library of his father Rebbe Yosef Meir Kahana of Spinka-Jerusalem (1909-1978). With interesting glosses and inscriptions in the handwriting of Rebbe Alter Eliezer.
· Zohar with the signature of Rebbe Chaim Aryeh Leifer of Uzhhorod (Ungvar). · Kaftor VaPerach - Kehillot Ya'akov. [Lemberg 1891]. With many signatures and stamps throughout the book of Rebbe Chaim Meir Yechiel Shapira of Drohobych (1864-1924). · Siddur with a pasted note - for blessing and success, health and sustenance. With stamp of Rebbe Yitzchak Friedman of Buhuşi. · Zikaron LaRishonim - Volume of a set of books of Chassidic history which belonged to Rebbe Mordechai of Zlatopil'. · Shomer Emunim. Vilna 1882. Stamp of Rebbe Yechiel Natan Halberstam of Bardejov (1865-1933).
25 books in 17 volumes. Size and condition vary. A detailed list is available upon request.