Shir HaShirim scroll written by an artistic scribe. Illustrated with gilt decoration and a beautiful illustration for each column.
Said Rabbi Akiva: “All Writings are sacred, and Shir HaShirim, the most sacred” (Tractate Yadim 3, 5)
Elegant and stunning parchment scroll, written by an expert G-d-fearing artistic scribe in Ashkenazic script – ‘Ktav Beit Yosef, ‘ in large and impressive letters with sparkling and shiny ink, on light-colored high-quality parchment. Kosher and suitable for reading in public for the mitzvah with a blessing.
In Ashkenazic communities, Shir HaShirim is read in the synagogue with a blessing on Shabbat during Passover, according to the general custom in Ashkenazic tradition to read a megillah that corresponds to the atmosphere of the holiday on each of the three pilgrimage festivals. In other communities, Shir HaShirim is read on the seventh day of Passover, or at the end of Seder night or during the ma’ariv prayers of Shabbats during Sefirat HaOmer. Likewise, in some Jewish communities (primarily in Chassidic and Sephardic communities), it is customary to read this megillah each Friday, before Kabbalat Shabbat, due to the perspective of Kabbalistic sages that the day of Shabbat in general, and Shabbat night in particular, is a time of closeness and unification between the Jewish people and Hashem.
Segulahs of Shir HaShirim (sources:
HaZohar HaKodesh , our Sages,
Me’am Loez ,
Kaf HaChaim ,
Ahavat Chaim ):
* Huge segulah to read Shir HaShirim with intent and wholeheartedly for 40 consecutive days, and to request each day, after this recital, one (similar) request, and the request will certainly be fulfilled. Tried-and-true.
* Segulah for a mother whose sons are struggling in their Torah study: She should recite Shir HaShirim daily and request that Hashem light up her sons’ eyes with Torah.
* All the cures in the world are hinted at and included in Shir HaShirim and it is beneficial for anyone who needs healing.
* One who reads Shir HaShirim each Shabbat night in pleasantness and song is assured that all his transgressions of the previous week will be forgiven.
* One who recites Shir HaShirim with intent and precision in its letters, will be rescued from the judgment of
Gehinnom .
* Recognized segulah for finding one’s spouse quickly: Reading Shir HaShirim for forty consecutive days out loud and with cantillation.
* Wonderful segulah for marital harmony: Husband and wife should read Shir HaShirim.
* One who reads Shir HaShirim every day merits fear of Heaven.
Parchment width: 32 cm. 14 lines.
Condition: New
“Write the Ketoret passage on parchment or gevil in Assyrian script like a Torah scroll … as the
ketoret enriches, and he is assured constant livelihood, and he will always have abundant sustenance and he will always have bountiful and not sparse finances.” (
Kaf HaChaim , 17:18)
Large and impressive parchment scroll, written by an expert G-d-fearing artistic scribe, in Ashkenazic script – ‘Ktav Beit Yosef, ‘ in sparkling and shiny ink, on light-colored, high-quality parchment. Suitable for hanging in one’s living room, business or synagogue.
In the
Zohar (Vayakhel 218b), the recital of Pitum HaKetoret is extensively praised: Rabbi Shimon says that if people only knew how lofty the Ketoret service is for the Holy One, Blessed be He, they would take each and every word, arise and put a gold crown on it … According to
Sefer HaZohar and the literature of customs, recital of Pitum HaKetoret is a segulah for stopping a plague, as written in Bamidbar 17:12-13: “… he placed the incense and atoned for the people. He stood between the dead and the living, and the plague ceased.” In light of this and more, Rabbi Chaim Palagi wrote in
Sefer Kaf HaChaim 17:18: “He should write the Ketoret passage on parchment or gevil in Assyrian script like a Torah scroll and read from it, and it will be a segulah for him, as the
ketoret enriches, and he is assured constant livelihood, and he will always have good sustenance and he will always have bountiful and not sparse finances.”
The book
Segulot Yisrael lists 11 segulahs for the recital of the Ketoret passage:
1. It abolishes plagues and severe illnesses.
2. It rescues from government subjugation.
3. Blessing is granted to the work of one’s hands.
4. Rescue from the judgement of gehinnom.
5. Neutralizes
klipot and
chitzoni’im and the
Sitra Achra .
6. Neutralizes sorcery.
7. Abolishes bad thoughts.
8. Bequeaths two worlds, Olam HaZeh and Olam HaBa.
9. Removes judgement from a person.
10. Causes finding favor in the eyes of all who behold him.
11. Segulah for wealth.
[1] sheet high-quality parchment, 90×55 cm. 2 columns, 21 lines per column.
Condition: New.
Pencil sketch on paper. 38×30 cm. Signed at the bottom of the sketch.
Placed in a frame with passe-partout. Fine-very fine condition.
Sold as is.
Original etching of Shabtai Tzvi, many the name of the wicked rot.
His image is towards the right and within an artistic frame. Written in French at the bottom of the etching:
Le Vray Portraiet de Sabetha Sebi Roy des Juifs né en la ville de Smirne en Asie aagé de 40 Ans
Free translation: Image of Shabbetai Tzvi, rabbi of the Jews of Samerin, 40 years old.
There is an identical engraving at the British Museum numbered O, 2.134. (Refer to an additional etching from the same series in the next lot.)
[1] leaf high-quality paper. 27×19 cm. The etching itself is 161×228 mm.
Very fine condition.
The figure of Shabbetai Tzvi was etched in the national consciousness of the Jewish people as the leading false Messiah. This fact is mainly due to the enormous scope of the Sabbatean movement that encompassed the entire Jewish world, and to the many years that lasted until it was forgotten by the people and their were no more believers.
Original etching of Nathan Benjamin Levi, known as Nathan HaAzati.
His figure is towards the left and inside an artistic frame.
Written in French at the bottom of the etching:
“Le Vray Portraiet de Nathan Levi Nouveau Prophete des Juifs, né en la ville de Gasa”
Free translation: Portrait of Nathan HaLevi, New Prophet of the Jewish People, from Gaza City.
An identical etching appears in the British Museum, numbered O, 6.189.
[1] leaf high-quality paper. 27×19 cm. The etching itself is 162×228 mm.
Very fine condition.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a Wikipedia biography.
Rabbi in prayer.
Description: Oil on canvas. 21×16 cm. Frame: 28×23 cm. Signed at bottom left.
Condition: Small, solitary blemishes. Very fine condition.
Oil on canvas – signed. Made by kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Leon Patilon, “The Holy Artist.”
A Jewish sage leans over his walking stick next to the gates of the city. A woman with a basket on her head and the city buildings can be seen in the background.
Human images rarely appear in the works of kabbalist Rabbi Patilon. Most of his works focus exclusively on scenery.
Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Leon Patilon [passed away Cheshvan 1974] was known as a wonder worker and an expert regarding souls and reincarnation. He supported himself as an artist and was known as “The Holy Artist.”
Size: 36×33 cm. In a wooden frame: 41×38 cm.
Condition: Very fine.
Rabbi wrapped in a prayer shawl. Signed.
Description: Oil on canvas. 41×33 cm. Impressive wood frame, 63×54 cm. Signed on the top right.
Condition: Light scratches. Fine-very fine condition.
Provenance: Sold in Sotheby’s Judaica sale on December 17, 2013, lot 65.
Oil painting on wood. The famous hyper-realistic artist Tsaku. Israel, c. 2006 .
Specifications: Black and white painting, 53X73 cm. Including wooden frame, 85×104 cm. Signed by the artist.
Unique Features: Hyperrealistic, photo-like, and stimulating work of art created using a unique technique by the artist Timur Tsaku .
Background: Timur Tsaku was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1972. After graduating from art school in 1987, he continued his education in the P.P. Ben’kov College majoring in theater direction and taught painting and sketching in the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater. In 1991, Tsaku left for Israel, where he began working on Chayot HaKodesh (“The G-d’s Angels”) paintings, that were later combined into one of his most significant art series. This series made Tsaku famous in the art world, and especially among the American artists of the realism genre. He returned to Israel in 2001 to create biblically-inspired Israeli art.
In 2006 Tsaku started working on portraits of the Jewish holy men ( Tsadikim ). The virtuoso skill of his technique has helped to establish Tsaku as a true master of a portrait genre.
His portraits are characterized by their hyper-realistic style, and reflect a unique combination of artistic talent, black-and-white components and astounding technique of precision in the small details. The characters in his paintings take up the majority of the area of the pictures, with an abstract view in the background. Pictures of people and animals that he paints, using the “triple zero” paint brush and a magnifying glass, look almost like photographs. His successful virtuoso technique reflects the uniqueness, mood and character of the individual in a way that evokes pause. His works are so unique that the artist is immediately identifiable. His paintings arouse astonishment, combining hyper-realism and surrealism.
Beginning in 2011, Tsaku was commissioned to paint a portrait of Boris Yeltsin. He continues painting the official portraits of many of the Russian statesmen and diplomats.
His creations are displayed in the most prestigious art galleries in the United States, select collections in Israel, private collections of Russian president V.V. Putin, D.A. Medvedev, T.B. Yumashev, N.I. Yeltsin, M.S. Shaimiev, I.B. Primakov, E.M. Primakov, Jr, R.A. Kadyrov, R.G. Abdulatipov, V.A. Shamanov and many other Russian dignitaries.
Condition: Very fine.
Torah, Prophets and Writings, translated into German by Ludwig Philippson, with 154 illustrations by renowned biblical illustrator Gustave Doré. Published by Eduard Hallberger. Binding with reliefs in biblical motifs, inscribed: מקרא נביאים וכתובים, Die Heilige Schrift der Israeliten, Illustrirt v. Gustav Doré Gustav Doré (1832-1883) was a renowned illustrator and painter, famous mainly for his biblical illustrations. Dr. Ludwig Phillipson (1811-1883) was a Reform rabbi in Berlin, who founded and edited the newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums. He was also famous for his translation of the bible. 802 pp, [152] plates with Doré’s illustrations. 41 cm. Gilt page edges, impressive binding. Fine condition, dismantled binding, minimal aging stains.
Exact replica of the illustrated chumash created by Flemish Jewish artist Carol Deutch in Belgium during the Nazi occupation. Carol Deutch (1894-1944) was a Flemish Jewish artist who spent about a year in Israel 1935-36, where he painted several large landscape pictures later presented at an exhibition in Belgium. After the German conquest in 1940, Deutch’s home was destroyed in a bombing. He attempted to flee to the United States with his family, but did not succeed. He began illustrating biblical verses in 1941 in a collection specially prepared for his only daughter’s, Ingrid’s, second birthday. Deutch created ninety-nine large-scale paintings depicting events and figures in chamishah chumshei Torah. Carol and his wife, Fela, were caught in 1943 because of informers, and they were deported to Auschwitz, where Fela found her death. Carol was later transferred to to Sachsenhausen and then to Buchenwald, where he died in 1944 from exhaustion and disease. Their daughter Ingrid was hidden with her grandmother in a Catholic farmer’s home, and she survived the war. Ingrid and her grandmother returned to their home in Antwerp after the war, where they found it completely looted of everything valuable except for the wooden box containing these 99 paintings. Ingrid later immigrated to the United States. She donated the box to Yad Vashem in 1982. Each one of the ninety-nine paintings has the verse it is depicting written at the bottom in three languages: Hebrew, English and French. Deutch also made the large engraved wooden box, which served as something of a safe for the paintings. He carved Jewish symbols on the box such as his name and the name of the work. In 2008 Yad Vashem published a limited edition of 500 copies of an exact replica of this chumash, including the carved wooden box. Before us is copy number 8. The portfolio includes a box, a silk print on art paper, [98] offset-printed illustrations and a booklet by Yad Vashem about Carol Deutch’s work. Box size: 33×44 cm. Very fine condition.
Large collection of 87 music booklets of songs in Yiddish by famous cantors and singers in the United States. Some of the leaves contain pictures of the cantors. Most of the booklets contain four pages. Overall fine condition.
3 bronze backplate chanukiahs, decorated. 16×17.5 cm, 14×19 cm, 12×15 cm. Overall fine condition.
Matzah cover for Seder night, made of hand-embroidered red velvet, with three pockets for matzahs. 40×40 cm. Moderate-fine condition, some of the embroidery is lacking.
Two magnificent lexicon books about Jewish art containing a bibliographic list of the collection of engravings, prints and portraits belonging to Alfred Rubens [1903-1998], collector and historian, who served as curator of the Jewish Museum in London 1958-1983. Comprehensive collection of 500 years of Jewish history. The books are accompanied by many pictures from the collection, which includes engravings, prints and many portraits of Jewish figures and Hebrew writing.
* A Jewish Iconography by Alfred Rubens. London, 1954. Including a brochure published together with the book.
Elegant limited edition of 500 copies, including a rich index of plates and prints of Jewish iconography over the centuries. 16, [2], 160 pp. + [31] plates. 29 cm. Some of the sheets are uncut. The leaves were painted gold on their tops.
Very fine condition. White semi-parchment binding integrated with fabric.
* A Jewish Iconography by Alfred Rubbins. London, 1982.
128 pp. 29 cm. Very fine condition.
* Cover for a table / cantor’s lectern, made of red velvet embroidered with the words: “This table before Hash-m was promised by Rabbi Meir son of Rabbi Leib Weisel and his modest wife, Mrs. Esther, daughter of R’ Natan of Halberstadt, Passover eve, 1803.” 49×60 cm. Moderate condition. Unravelings. * Purple cloth parochet with gold thread embroidery of a large star of David with the inscription: “Dedicated to the synagogue in memory of the Ar”i zy”a, by the senior and modest woman (…..), may Hash-m grant her viable male children, amen.” 56×83 cm, moderate-fine condition.
Series of 6 color prints depicting Jewish festivals,(Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Chanukah, Purim and Pesach) by renowned Jewish artist Arthur Szyk. Published by Arthur Rothmann Fine Arts, New York. Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a well-known Jewish Polish-American artist. He was born in Lodz and studied art in Poland, in Paris, and also in the Land of Israel. In 1936, he prepared his most famous work, Haggadat Szyk, which is well-known for its beauty and its anti-Nazi messages, and earned him worldwide fame. [6] prints: 25×32 cm. Fine condition, aging stains.
English edition of the book that describes Chagall’s work on the Jerusalem Windows. The beginning of the book relates that Marc Chagall created two lithographs for this book, including another reproduction of the windows. First edition. 213 pp, 33 cm. The book comes in the original cardboard slipcase. Very fine condition.
Der babylonische Talmud in Auswahl, translated and explained by Jakob Fromer. German translation of selected parts of the Babylonian Talmud with illustrations by Josef Budko. Published by Brandusschen Verlagbuchhandlung. [4], 169, [3] pp, 36 cm. Very fine condition.
Description: Aquarelle on paper. 27×37 cm, signed. Wooden frame, 48×57 cm.
Jules Halfant [1909-2001] was a Jewish-American painter and printmaker. He was born and lived in New York, where he studied and painted. At the age of 14, he was accepted to the National Academy of Design in New York, and he worked alongside renowned artists. He was a member of the New York Artists’ Society and the American Society of Contemporary Artists. In the 1930s and 40s, he painted hundreds of New York street scenes, his family and friends, workmen, merchants and more. In the 1950s, he started to focus on religious life and Jewish culture, influenced by stories of the Bible, books by prominent Jewish authors and synagogue visits. Through 1988, he was the artistic director of Vanguard Records and designed many musicians’ books and albums.
Condition: Fine. Faded signature in the bottom right corner.
Specifications : Oil on wood. 43X35 cm, in a 62X53 cm frame. Signed in lower right corner.
Alfred [Aharon] Wolmark [c. 1877-1961] Painter and artist. Born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, he immigrated to England as a child, where he studied at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1903 he returned to Poland and painted pictures of Jewish life. Under the influence of modern French painting, he changed his style in 1911 and adopted an Impressionist genre. Like Van Gogh’s style, he made bold use of color, drawing blurry figures with thick strokes of color. His paintings were exhibited in New York and London, and achieved limited success. His work was re-evaluated only posthumously, and his paintings became widely recognized and exhibited in major galleries around the world.
Condition: Very fine. Abraisions on frame.
Specifications : Oil on canvas, 49×64 cm, within a wooden frame 70×85 cm. Signed and dated on the bottom right corner.
Joseph Schein (France, d. 2001) was a noted artist. His works were sold by Christie’s.
Condition: Fine.
Oil on canvas. Work by the holy kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Leon Patilon, ‘The Holy Artist.’
Description: Signed in the lower right corner. 67×47 cm. Placed in an elegant wooden frame: 82×62 cm.
Paintings by the kabbalist Rabbi Patilon featuring people are very rare, as he usually drew landscapes without figures.
Kabbalist Yehudah Leon Patilon (d. Cheshvan 1974) was known as a wonder-worker, expert on reincarnation and the world of souls. He earned his livelihood as a painter, and was known by his occupation, “The Holy Artist.”
Condition: Fine condition. Damage with wood missing to wooden frame.
Specifications: Oil on canvas. Signed in lower left corner. 54×44 cm, placed in a frame: 72×62 cm.
About the kabbalist Rabbi Yehudah Leon Patilon – see previous item.
Condition: Fine condition. Cracks and minor blemishes in the paint layer at the picture’s bottom.
