Chessed L’Avraham , three sections – regarding the ten sayings, the order of creation … and more, authored by Rabbi Avraham of Slonim. The book bears the stamps of Admor Avraham Betzalel Nosson Nota Biderman, son of Admor Elazar Mendel of Lelov. First edition. Jozefow, 1886.
Specifications: 39, 25, 65 leaves. 30 cm.
Condition: Very fine, minimal aging stains.
Chovat HaLevavot with the Marpeh LaNefesh commentary and Ivri Teitch. Warsaw, 1875, the copy that belonged to Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Hertz Henig of Satmar.
Stamp: “נפתלי הירצקא העניג” [“Naftali Hertzka Henig”]
Rabbi Naftali Hertzka Henig was among the rabbinic leaders of Satmar in the generation after the war. Before the war, he served as Av Beit Din of Sharmash, and after the war he immigrated to the United States. He passed away in 1970 in the United States.
22 cm. 144 pages. Detached front binding, blemished spine, detached leaves. Moderate condition.
Divrei Geonim authored by Rabbi Chaim Aryeh HaKohen of Sighet. 1901. With owner stamps of Admor Alter Menachem Mendel Hager of Borșa.
[4] 210 leaves. 30 cm. Stamp: אלטר מנחם מענדיל האגער בה”ה שליט”א אבדק”ק בארשא יצ”ו”
New binding. Overall very fine condition.
Admor Alter Menachem Mendel Hager of Borșa [1897-1944] was the son of Rabbi Pinchas of Borșa, the son of the “Imrei Baruch” of Vizhnitz. He was the son-in-law of his uncle, the “Ahavat Yisrael” of Vishnitz. He served as rabbi in Borșa until he was murdered in Auschwitz on the 29th of Iyar, 1944 (according to a different version, he was murdered in the Selish ghetto on the 1st of Kislev, 1943). Admor Yaakov Yosef Weiss of Spinka was his son-in-law.
Haramat Keren HaTorah written by Rabbi Nachum Landau of Yazliwitz. Discussing reasons for the troubles and tribulations which were visited upon the Jewish people, and how they can be remedied.
Specifications: 32, paper leaf. 17 cm.
Unique Features: The Admor Rabbi Avraham Brandwein of Stretin’s personal copy. The Admor’s son is Rabbi Uri Brandwein of Azipoli. He served as Admor in Piatra-Niamt, Rumania, and was very active in helping refugees who arrived from Poland during the period of the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, he immigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa, where he established his study hall. He passed away in 1973.
On the first page there is an interesting signature of the rabbi’s with the following poem about writing his name in the book so that no one absconds with it:
“אחרי ראית אנשי מזימה חושבים על רעיהם רע ומרמה. ואם שרואים ספר בלא חתימה. נוטלים אותם תחת הגלימה. ואומרים איין בידינו מאומה. לכן הננו חותם את שמי. מגן הוא לכל הבוטחים בו. הק’ אברהם ברנדווין מסטאניסלאב יע”א”
Condition: Fine. Partially detached title page. Original binding, slightly detached.
Rare! Not found in the National Library. Not mentioned in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Three copies of Likkutei Halachot, all with the note מוגה (“proofread”), written by the author himself, Rabbi Yisrael Meir of Radin, author of Chafetz Chaim .
* Likkutei Halachot , with the note מוגה. Piotrkow, 1910. Personal copy of Rabbi Yehudah Heschel Levenberg’s, rabbi of דניוהייווען קאנג. * Likkutei Halachot with the note מוגה. Piotrkow, 1913. Detached title page and binding.
* Likkutei Halachot , with the note מוגה. Warsaw, 1922. Personal copy of Rabbi Yehudah Heschel Levenberg’s, rabbi of דניוהייווען קאנג. Partially detached binding.
Varying sizes and conditions.
Collection of [5] books, bound together. From Rabbi Avraham Brandwein of Stretin’s library.
* Likkutei Shoshanim , Torah thoughts by Rabbi Moshe Tzvi of Sarwan. Warsaw 1884.
* Tzel HaMaalot , mussar work by Rabbi Yehudah Leib Horowitz. Sighet 1901.
* Derech HaChaim , laws and good customs and chassidic thoughts. Bartfeld (Bardyev) 1904.
* Orchot Tzaddikim , Zolkiew 1848.
* Maalot HaMiddot , by Rabbi Yechiel son of Rabbi Yekutiel. Lemberg 1850.
With the stamp of Rabbi “Avraham son of the famous righteous Rabbi Uri … grandson of the famous righteous Rabbi of Stretin.” Some have ancient handwritten glosses.
The Admor Rabbi Avraham Brandwein of Stretin-Haifa, son of Admor Rabbi Uri Brandwein of Azipoli. Served as Admor in Piatra-Neamt, Rumania, and was very active in assisting refugees from Poland during the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, he immigrated to Haifa, where he established his study hall. He passed away in 1973.
Most are in very fine condition.
Kohelet Yitzchak , Torah novellae, composed by Rabbi Yitzchak son of Rabbi Nissan of Vilna. With two title pages. With the stamp of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager, Av Beit Din of Vishova, son of the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz. Vilna. 1899.
Specifications: 103 leaves. 23 cm.
Background: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager. 1885-1941. Eldest son of the Admor, the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz. He served as lecturer in the yeshivah his father established in Vizhnitz. He was appointed rabbi of Vizhnitz in 1908. Upon the outbreak of WWI, he joined his father and the rest of the family who moved to Grossweiden (Oradea), Transylvania. He was appointed rabbi of Vishova in Marmamorsh, Transylvania in 1921, and headed the local yeshivah. This was the largest yeshivah in Rumania at the time, with approximately 400 students at its peak. After his father’s passing in 1936, he became the Admor of Vishova. Even after starting to serve as Admor, he continued to lead the yeshivah and deliver lectures there. He became ill in 1941, soon passing away from this illness. His remains were transferred to the Land of Israel for burial, and he was buried in the section of the Admors of Vizhnitz in the Shabbat observers’ cemetery in Bnei Brak.
Condition: Moderate. Aging stains. Blemished first title page and last page. Unbound.
Three books from the library of Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halevi Jungreis, Av Beit Din of Satmar. With his stamps and signatures.
* Mekor Chaim . Novellae and elucidation on the laws of Passover and novellae on Tractate Kritut, authored by the “Chavat Daat.” Lemberg, 1866. 79 leaves, 19 cm. Very fine condition.
* Afikei Yehudah – sermons and eulogies. Authored by Rabbi Yehudah Leib HaLevi Edel, disciple of the GR”A of Vilna. First edition. Antiquated gloss. Lemberg, 1803. 135 leaves, (missing leaf 38), 24 cm. Fine condition.
* Yalkut HaRoim , section two, authored by Rabbi Shimon Bezalel Neiman. Przemysl, 1897. 67 leaves, 33 cm. Moderate-fine condition.
Refer to HaChatam Sofer V’Talmidav , pages 494, 505, 641, 661, for more information about Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga HaLevi Jungreis.
Halichot Olam , first and only edition. With many approbations. This copy bears interesting owner notations: Chatzkel? Fishel Ehreich ritual slaughter and checker in Kremsnetz and now residing in Breslau.”
Description: [2] 78 leaves, 20 cm.
Condition: Very fine. Partially detached binding.
Ohev Yisrael . Handwritten signature: “This book belongs to me, the small one Aryeh Leibush Horowitz HaLevi, adjudicator here in Lantzut.” And many other inscriptions in Hebrew and a foreign language. Warsaw. 1875.
Specifications: 100 leaves. 22 cm. Handwritten signature and many inscriptions.
Background: Rabbi Aryeh Leibush HaLevi Horowitz, (1828-1902). Grandson of the Shl”ah. He was Rabbi Shalom of Kaminka’s primary disciple. The Divrei Chaim of Sanz would rise in his presence. He served as rabbi in Rudnik and then in Lantzut. He became blind in his later years, and the city adjudicators were astonished at how he felt by touch that an uncertainty which arose was regarding a goose and not a chicken. He passed away on 20 Kislev 1902.
Condition: Very fine.
Maleh HaRoim , two volumes, containing a collection of all the opinions of the Tannaim and Amoraim (in section I), and on the issue of the characteristics by which Torah is studied (in section II), with the Shoneh Halachot compilation regarding rules for establishing the halachah when there is a disagreement among the Tannaim and Amoraim, authored by Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Yalish (chassidic). Warsaw, 1880. The copy before us contains the Admor the holy Rabbi Natan David Rabinowitz of Biala’s stamp.
Specifications: [2] 163 leaves. 29 cm.
Condition: Fine-very fine.
The Admor Rabbi Natan David Rabinowitz was born in Biala to his father the Admor Rabbi Yerachmiel Tzvi. He married the Admor Rabbi Alter of Novominsk’s daughter. He moved to London in 1928, where he passed away.
Ahavat Yisrael on Bereishit , first edition. (In this edition, only the Bereishit volume was published.) Grosswardien, 1943.
Handwritten dedication by Rabbi Shraga Feivel Shneebalg, author of Shraga HaMeir , “Tuesday, when ‘and it was good’ was twice declared, the week of the Torah portion “You shall be blessed” 1949, London, a gift for my relative Moshe, my Uncle Tzvi, z”l’s grandson, on the occasion of his bar mitzvah, from his relative, Shraga Feivel, son of my father, the Av Beit Din and rabbi of Vizhnitz, now in Manchester.
106 leaves. 25 cm.
Partially detached binding and dampstains. Overall fine condition.
Machzor for Shavuot. Copy used for prayer by the gaon Rabbi Aharon Tzvi Brisk, Av Beit Din of Tashke and rosh yeshivah of Beit Moshe in Arad. Vilna, 1935.
Rabbi Aharon Tzvi Brisk (1910-1959), son of the gaon Rabbi Mordechai Brisk – the Mahara”m Brisk. He served as rabbi of Tashke and rosh yeshivah in Arad. After the Holocaust, he immigrated to Israel and settled in Netanya where he established the Tashke community which he led until his passing on 28 Sivan 1959.
180 leaves. 22 cm. Stamps: “Aharon Tzvi Brisk Av Beit Din of the Tashke community,” “Yeshivat Beit Moshe in Arad.”
Detached back binding, overall fine-very fine condition.
Mechir Yayin , elucidation on the Megillat Esther by Rabbi Moshe Isserles – Rema. Bardejov, 1925.
Signatures of the Leifer family of Nadvorna: הק’ אהרן ארי’ לייפער בהרב הצדיק כקש”ת רש”ב שליט”א. בנימין לייפער חופק”ק קלויזנעבורג. זה הספר שייך לי הק’ בערצי לייפער קלוז – and many other notations.
Specifications : 78 pages, 19 cm.
Condition : Fine, the binding and a number of leaves are partially detached.
Seder Olam Zuta im Seder Tanaim V’Amoraim HaShalem, im Mavoh, He’arot V’Tikkunim. By Rabbi Menashe Grossberg of Trestiny. In this print, the book was divided into small chapters for the first time. With a printed dedication by the author to the philanthropist Rabbi Pesach Barnett of London. London, 1910.
Specifications: 112 pages. 17 cm.
Condition: Fine-very fine. Some worming holes in the first pages.
“As a sign of appreciation for the dedication of our dear friend, expert doctor for many, Dr. R’ Kalman Stranman … from your friend who wishes you well … Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, Av Beit Din and lecturer, Zichron Meir Bnei Brak.”
Specifications: 311 pages. 34 cm. Dedicated and signed by the author.
Condition: Very fine.
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner 1913-2015 was a prominent halachic adjudicator. He authored the Shevet HaLevi responsa and novellae on the Talmud and Torah. He was the Av Beit Din and rabbi of the Zichron Meir neighborhood and Rosh Yeshivah of Chachmei Lublin in Bnei Brak. He was commonly known in the chassidic community as the “posek hador” – leading halachic decider of the generation.
Collection of six books, some signed and with glosses, from the library of the mashgiach Chaim Friedlander.
* Talmud Bavli, Eruvin-Pesachim. Signature and glosses in his handwriting.
* Yechezkel, signature and glosses in his handwriting.
* Nachalat Eliyahu , from the writings of Rabbi Eliyahu HaKohen Dushnitzer. Handwritten signature.
* Daat Kedoshim , Rabbi Rephael son of Rabbi Yekutiel Ziskind Katz. Second edition New York 1966. Handwritten signature.
* Shaarei Tziyon on Talmudic tractates. Handwritten signature.
* Oneg Shabbat s ayings of the tanaim and amoraim discussing the virtues of Shabbat. Handwritten signature.
Background: Rabbi Chaim Friedlander , 1923-1986, was a mussar personality in the previous generation, mashgiach in the Ponovezh and HaNegev yeshivahs. He dealt very much with the RaMCha”l’s writings, and published editions of many of his books.
Overall very fine condition.
Sefer HaMachria. Laws and novellae on tractate Ta’anit, by Rabbi Yeshayah di Trani, author of the Tosefot Rid. Livorno, 1779.
First edition of the important work of one of the greatest Rishonim. Important approbations, including a long approbation from Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai – the Chida.
Ownership signature on the title page, Rabbi Eliezer son of Rabbi Yosef Binyamin Bergman. Rabbi Eliezer Bergman [1798-1852] was the disciple of the great German rabbis of his time, and was the son-in-law of Rabbi Mendel Rosenbaum – the finance minister of Leopold, king of Bavaria. In addition to being a Torah scholar who corresponded with the prominent scholars of the generation, he was an important activist who immigrated to Jerusalem and established Kollel Hod. He died on a mission in Germany and his body was brought to Jerusalem. He is the patriarch of the Bergman family of Jerusalem. Some of his teachings were printed in the book B’Har Yirah [Jerusalem, 1975] and in a booklet within the book Sha’arei Orah , by his grandson Rabbi Meir Zvi Bergman, Rabbi Shach’s son-in-law [Bnei Brak, 1969].
Aging stains. Minimal worming holes. New binding. Condition: Fine.
Or Pnei Moshe. Sermons by Rabbi Moshe son of Rabbi Avraham of Przeworsk. Altona, 1792. Signature of Rabbi Yaakov, grandson of Rabbi Yaakov of Lisa, author of ‘Chavat Daat.’
Approbation of Rabbi Rafael HaCohen of Altona – Altona-Hamburg–Wandsbek. Pretty landscape illustration on page [2]. The word ‘sefer’ on the title page was printed in large artistic letters.
The handwritten signature of Rabbi Yaakov grandson of the Gaon of Lisa is on the title page. Rabbi Yaakov was born in 1834, some two years after the death of his grandfather Rabbi Yaakov of Lisa, author of the Chavat Daat and other works, and named after him. As a child, he immigrated with his father to Safed, and was considered a unique person. He died in 1888. His novellae are printed in a supplementary book to the Minchat Chinuch , his pedigree and his family’s genealogy are printed at his dictation at the beginning of the book Chiddushei HaRadad on Pesachim [Warsaw, 1891]: A transcription from … Rabbi Yaakov son of Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda Leibush, son of the Gaon of Lisa, author of the book Chavat Daat . The leaf is enclosed.
[2] 40 leaves, 19 cm.
Minimal worming holes and aging stains. New binding. Condition: Fine.
Chassidut on the Torah, Nach and Talmud and compilations, by Rabbi Aryeh Leib the ‘Preacher of Polonne.’ Czernowitz, 1862. Pedigreed copy.
A book of chassidut written by one of the Ba’al Shem Tov’s early disciples. Pedigreed copy: stamps of Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad of Camăr, and stamps of Rabbi Moshe Hager of Haifa, son of the Admor of Seret-Vizhinitz and Rosh Yeshiva of the Seret-Vizhnitz yeshiva in Haifa.
Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad [1909 – 1966], a scion of the family of the Admors of Vizhnitz and brother-in-law of the Admor author of the Makor Baruch of Seret-Vizhnitz, a disciple of Rabbi Meir Arik, and Rabbi of Gura Humora. He survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel, served as Rabbi of Cyprus and Jaffa, and had a close relationship with the Chazon Ish. He died childless, the book before us was passed on to his relative Rabbi Moshe Hager, son of the Admor author of the Makor Baruch and Rosh Yeshiva of the Seret-Vizhinitz yeshiva in Haifa.
[2], 106, 111-130 leaves, 17 cm.
Condition Fine. Aging stains. Old binding.
Shvilei David, halachic novellae on Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer. By Rabbi David Zilberstein, Jerusalem, 1862, first edition. Handwritten signature of Rabbi Moshe HaLevi Hamburger נוומיסטה Segal of Pressburg.
Rabbi Moshe HaLevi Hamburger נוומיסטה [1801-1888] was born in the city נאוואמעסטה . He arrived empty-handed at the Chatom Sofer’s yeshiva at a young age. He arose and became elevated to the point of being considered among the most beloved and excellent students in the yeshiva. His rabbi, the Chatam Sofer, called him “Moshe New City” – a translation of the name of his city נאוואמעסטה . This name stayed with him until his final day. He quickly became like one of the Chatam Sofer’s family, and was one of the influential figures in his yeshiva. Known for his asceticism, holiness and extreme piety. Given that he was among those who composed the list of volunteers of “Shanim” for the Chatam Sofer while he was ill, the Chatam Sofer promised him longevity, which was realized, as he passed away at the age of 87.
The Chatam Sofer wrote in the certificate for Rabbi Moshe: “Moshe arose and elevated ascents in holiness, my student the wondrous young man Rabbi Moshe New City, learned and served with great diligence and depth … Did not turn to arrogance but to grace … decided according to halacha, filled his hand with many issues and halachas, understood at a glance, covered intensively … all that I have said in his honor before the sages of the people of G-d ….”
In the year 1857, he immigrated to the Holy Land and settled in Jerusalem, where he disseminated the teachings of his rabbi. Rabbi Moshe Schick of ברעזאווע requested in his letter that he write the customs of his rabbi the Chatam Sofer.
72 leaves. 31 cm.
New binding. [Restored] tears on the first pages with partial lack in the text. Light tears and worming holes in the last pages. Stains.
Moderate condition.
Three volumes of Mikraot Gedolot printed in Lemberg between 1808-1810; two with the stamps of Rabbi Shimshon Altman, av”d Paks.
* Sections three-four. Kings 1-2 and Isaiah, Lemberg 1808-1809. Owner stamp of Rabbi Shimshon Altman on title page of Kings.
* Section eight, Proverbs and Job, Lemberg 1810. Endpaper and title page bear the stamp of Rabbi Shimshon Altman.
* Psalms, Mikraot Gedolot.
Rabbi Shimshon Altman [Otzar HaRabbanim 20042] was the son-in-law of Rabbi Shimon Sofer. He was born in 1897 and was a noted genius. In 1916, he served as rabbi in Szendro, and in 1931 in Paks. He died in the Holocaust in 1944.
Some of the leaves are printed on blue paper. Varying conditions.
Owner notation signed by Rabbi Shlomo of Sadigura: קנין כספי שלמה פרידמאן.
19th century.
Rabbi Shlomo Friedman [1843-1880] was the son of Admor Avraham Yaakov of Sadigura and a grandson of the Admor of Ruzhin and Admor Aharon Perlow of Karlin-Stolin, author of the Beit Aharon . He was in-line to be the admor and many chassidim were drawn to him, but he died before his father, at the age of 37. He had two daughters: Chava Leah, who married Rabbi Nachum Mordechai Friedman, the son of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Chortkov; and Leah, the wife of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Boyan-Leipzig. Next to the handwritten material is the note in Rashi script.
This lot includes documentary material regarding Rabbi Shlomo of Sadigura.
[1] leaf, paper. 15×13 cm. Stains. Fine condition.
Three books with unidentified glosses.
* Giluy Da’as on yu”d Hilchos Treifos by Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Schwardron. Berezhany[Galicia], [1913]. A number of scholarly glosses are scattered on the pages of the book, written by a Torah scholar who was apparently proficient in the Talmud and poskim. [“I wrote at length in a different place.”]
* Kreiti u’Pleiti section one on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah, Lemberg 1897. Bound with Tiferet Yisrael – halachic novellae on Nidah, Lemberg 1897. Leaf 43 of Kreiti u’Pleit i has a lengthy scholarly gloss.
* Yam shel Shlomo on tractate Kesubot by the Maharshal, Lemberg [?]. The title page bears owner stamps of מספרי אאמו”ר הרה”ג מו”ה חנוך הענעך הלוי זצ”ל פיעטרקווסקי in addition to a stamp of אוצר הספרים ביאלסטאק ברוך פריידענבערג. Leaves 14-15 bear a number of handwritten glosses.
Varying sizes and conditions. Overall moderate-fine condition.
