Auction 154 Exclusive Shavuot Sale – Letters of Great Rabbis, Rare Books, Manuscripts, Chabad & Judaica
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LOT 1:
Ancient and complete Polish Torah Scroll – Pre-Hasidic, with influences of the customs of the Arizal. A rare survival from the formative era of Hasidism and the Torah centers of eighteenth-century Poland. Presented here is an important and early Torah scroll, written in Poland circa the ...
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LOT 2:
The Holy Painter – Judah Leon Patillon. “The Old Man.” Oil on Canvas. Signed. The Holy Painter – Judah Leon Patillon. Expressive Oil Painting of “The Old Man.” Signed. Impressive and highly expressive oil painting executed by the holy painter, Chacham Judah Leon Patillon, signed at lower right: ...
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LOT 3:
Magnificent Silver Etrog Box – New York Work by Ball, Black & Co. Early 20th Century. An impressive and elegant etrog box crafted in .925 silver, produced in New York in the early 20th century by the prestigious firm Ball, Black & Co. Hallmarked on the underside: BALL, BLACK & CO. / ...
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2,800
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LOT 4:
The Personal Amulet of the Great Kabbalist Hacham Yitzchak Kaduri – The Turquoise Ring that Removed the Evil Eye and Changed Destinies. A Sacred and Exceptionally Rare Segulah Item – An impressive silver ring set with a large turquoise stone (identified with the Nofech, one of the stones of the ...
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LOT 5:
Rare Type of Amulet: True Amulet Handwritten by the Ben Ish Chai. “May E-l Sha-dai assist us, protect us and help us; amen, may it be His will.” Extremely rare amulet, refined and "open, " handwritten by the leading Kabbalist of Iraq, the living lion, Rabbeinu Yosef Chaim of Baghdad. ...
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LOT 6:
Archive of Exceptional Importance – “Mazhirei Shabbat Society” | Dramatic Documentation of the Struggle for the Sanctity of Shabbat in the Land of Israel Before the Establishment of the State. Historical Item of the Highest Order – A Comprehensive, Fascinating, and Powerful Archive comprising ...
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LOT 7:
Historic!! The Archive of Aharon Abuhatzira – Hundreds of Secret, Personal, and Rare Documents from the Highest Circles of Government that Shaped Israeli Politics. A Vast and Exceptionally Rare Archive – comprising six binders – an extraordinary and near-unrepeatable documentary record of the ...
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LOT 8:
A Sacred Letter of Mission – From the Era of the Global Expansion of the Shluchim Movement Letter of Guidance and Blessing from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to the Student Emissaries. Purim Katan, 1984. An uplifting and deeply moving letter sent by the Lubavitcher ...
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LOT 9:
Extremely Rare! Likutei Amarim Tanya signed by the Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson from the final year in which the Rebbe received visitors in private audience (yechidus). Likutei Amarim Tanya. Edition published especially for the Ten Days of Repentance, 5740 [1980], and distributed from the ...
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5,000
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LOT 10:
$100 Bill Received from the Holy Hands of the Lubavitcher Rebbe for the Construction of a Mikveh – 5745 [1985]. A Highly Significant and Moving Chabad Treasure. United States $100 bill, serial number B86707935B, dated 1985, received from the holy hands of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and ...
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LOT 11:
Kuntres “Maamar Baruch She’Asa Nissim 5664” Received from the Holy Hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, with a Charity Dollar. Kuntres “Maamar Baruch She’Asa Nissim 5664”, published by Kehot, Shevat 5751 [1991], in a glossy light-green cover, accompanied by a dollar for charity. The present booklet ...
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LOT 12:
Kuntres “11 Nissan 5750” with a Charity Dollar Received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe – A Distribution Held in the Rebbe’s Home. Kuntres 11 Nissan – 5750, accompanied by a dollar for charity, given by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Published by Kehot, Brooklyn, New York ...
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500
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LOT 13:
“Kuntres Maamarim 5682” with a Charity Dollar Received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe – 10 Shevat 5752. Kuntres Maamarim 5682, accompanied by a dollar for charity, both given by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Published by Kehot, Brooklyn, New York, 5752 [1992]. “The Year of ...
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LOT 14:
Likkutei Amarim Tanya Distributed by the Rebbe via Kollel Scholars, with an Accompanying Dollar – “Millennium Edition, ” 1984. Rare. Likkutei Amarim Tanya, the special “Millennium Edition.” Published by Kehot – Otzar HaChassidim, 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, 11 Nissan 5744 [1984]. ...
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770
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LOT 15:
A Blessing from the Rebbe – A Sanctified Dollar . A United States one-dollar bill granted from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, during the traditional Sunday dollar distribution—an extraordinary occasion in which the Rebbe would give out dollar bills for ...
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LOT 16:
A Blessing from the Rebbe – A $20 Bill for the Dissemination of the Tanya . A United States twenty-dollar bill granted from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The uniqueness of this item lies in the fact that it is not a standard one-dollar bill, but ...
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770
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LOT 17:
A Blessing from the Rebbe – A Sanctified Dollar for blessing and success, both spiritually and materially. A United States One-Dollar Bill Granted by the Holy Hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe A U.S. one-dollar bill bestowed by the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel ...
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LOT 18:
A Blessing from the Rebbe – A Sanctified Dollar . A United States one-dollar bill granted from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, during the traditional Sunday dollar distribution—an extraordinary occasion in which the Rebbe would give out dollar bills for ...
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LOT 19:
A Blessing from the Rebbe – A Sanctified Dollar . A United States one-dollar bill granted from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, during the traditional Sunday dollar distribution—an extraordinary occasion in which the Rebbe would give out dollar bills for ...
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LOT 20:
A Blessing from the Rebbe – A Sanctified Dollar . A United States one-dollar bill granted from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, during the traditional Sunday dollar distribution—an extraordinary occasion in which the Rebbe would give out dollar bills for ...
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300
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LOT 21:
A Blessing Coin from the Rebbe – 90% Silver. Rare!. A half-dollar coin struck in 90% silver, issued in 1964. The coin was received from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and was preserved in the collection of a devoted Chabad chassid who merited to draw ...
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300
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LOT 22:
A Blessing Coin from the Rebbe – 90% Silver. Rare!. A half-dollar coin struck in 90% silver, issued in 1964. The coin was received from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and was preserved in the collection of a devoted Chabad chassid who merited to draw ...
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300
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LOT 23:
A Blessing Coin from the Rebbe – 90% Silver. Rare!. A half-dollar coin struck in 90% silver, issued in 1964. The coin was received from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and was preserved in the collection of a devoted Chabad chassid who merited to draw ...
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300
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LOT 24:
A Blessing Coin from the Rebbe – 90% Silver. Rare!. A half-dollar coin struck in 90% silver, issued in 1964. The coin was received from the holy hand of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and was preserved in the collection of a devoted Chabad chassid who merited to draw ...
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300
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LOT 25:
Giant Margins! “Kos HaYeshuot” of Our Master the Maharshashach – Grandfather of the Chatam Sofer. First Edition. Foundational Work. . Kos HaYeshuot – profound Talmudic novellae on tractates of Seder Nezikin: Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, Bava Batra, Sanhedrin, Makkot, Shevuot, and Avodah Zarah ...
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LOT 26:
Sefer Pri Chadash. Amsterdam, 1706. First Edition. Magnificent Copy with Wide Margins. Pri Chadash, one of the foundational and most influential works of halachic literature, authored by the renowned gaon Rabbi Chizkiyah di Silva, among the leading halachic authorities of the Jewish world and a ...
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LOT 27:
Chanoch LaNa’ar and Lashon Zahav, Also Called Michtam LeDavid – Two Manuals of Letter Writing and Penmanship in One Volume. Amsterdam, [1734–1743]. Hebrew and Yiddish. Rare. Two rare and important parts of instructional works on writing, composition, and correspondence, bound together in a ...
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LOT 28:
Minchat Shai. Mantua, 1742–1744. First Edition. Complete and Impressive Set in Original Leather Bindings. First edition of the celebrated foundational work Minchat Shai, one of the most important and authoritative books devoted to establishing the accurate text of the Hebrew Bible—its words ...
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1,800
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LOT 29:
Shulchan HaPanim Bound with Chovot HaLevavot. Venice, 1712–1713. Two Foundational Ladino Works in One Volume. Extra Fine Copy. An impressive and important volume containing two rare foundational works printed in Ladino in Venice at the beginning of the eighteenth century for the Sephardic ...
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1,500
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LOT 30:
Minhagim. Amsterdam, 1662. With dozens of illustrations. A complete and attractive copy. Exceptionally rare. Minhagim – a work describing the customs of Ashkenazic Jewry in Poland, Bohemia, and Moravia, together with numerous laws and annual observances, translated from Hebrew into Yiddish by ...
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18,000
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LOT 31:
Two Pearls in One Volume – First Editions from the Press of Daniel Bomberg: “Responsa of the Rashba Attributed to the Ramban” Together with “Pesakim u-Ketavim” of the Author of Terumat HaDeshen. Venice, 1519. Extremely Rare. Manuscript Annotations. An impressive and highly desirable volume ...
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LOT 32:
Complete Bible in Spanish Translation – Printed for the Descendants of the Conversos. Amsterdam, 1646. Biblia en lengua española, traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca – a complete Bible translated into Spanish, one of the important editions printed in Amsterdam for members of the ...
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LOT 33:
Prayer Book. Amsterdam, 1726. “Order of prayers, liturgical poems, and hymns, for every new month and every Sabbath in its season”—a complete prayer book for the entire year according to the Sephardic rite, printed in Amsterdam in the early eighteenth century. Before us is a handsome and ...
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LOT 34:
Selichot for Women in Yiddish Translation. Amsterdam, 1688. First Edition. Rare. Order of Selichot for the month of Elul and the High Holy Days, translated into Yiddish, accompanied by a “sufficient explanation of the words and of the meaning of the matter, the like of which has not yet existed ...
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1,800
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LOT 35:
Sefer Sha’ar HaShamayim by Rabbi Gershon ben Shlomo. Venice, 1547. First Edition. Sha’ar HaShamayim is among the earliest and most important Hebrew works devoted to natural science, cosmology, and astronomy, authored by the sage Rabbi Gershon ben Shlomo. The author, Rabbi Gershon ben Shlomo of ...
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1,200
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LOT 36:
Set of the “Angel” Shulchan Aruch. Amsterdam, 1698. Traditional Year of the Birth of the Baal Shem Tov. Complete and Impressive Set in Original Bindings. An important and elegant edition of the Shulchan Aruch, printed in Amsterdam at the close of the seventeenth century, containing the glosses ...
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LOT 37:
Sefer Issur VeHeter – With Signatures of the Rovigo Family. Ferrara, 1555. First Edition. Exceptionally Rare Complete Copy. First edition of the celebrated foundational halachic work Issur VeHeter HaAroch (commonly abbreviated O”H), one of the most influential and authoritative texts in the ...
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LOT 38:
Biurim – A Work that Aroused Great Controversy. Venice, 1593. Sole Edition. With Illustrations and a Map of the Land of Israel. Biurim, a commentary on Rashi’s commentary to the Torah, printed under the name of Rabbi Natan Shapira of Horodno, one of the central rabbinic figures in the history ...
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LOT 39:
Krovetz. Amsterdam, 1670. Rare. A rare High Holy Day prayer book for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, containing Krovot (liturgical compositions), Yotzrot, and piyutim, translated into the Ashkenazic vernacular (early Yiddish), and printed in Tzur type. Before us is an important and impressive ...
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LOT 40:
Sefer Tzedah LaDerech. Ferrara, 1554. First Edition. Especially Impressive Copy. Tzedah LaDerech is one of the important and original halachic works of Spanish Jewry, authored by Rabbi Menachem ben Zerach, one of the sages of fourteenth-century Spain and a disciple of Rabbi Yehudah ben HaRosh. ...
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2,500
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LOT 41:
Five Books of Moses and the Five Megillot. Amsterdam, 1693. Rare Pocket Edition. The Five Books of Moses and the Five Megillot, together with the Haftarot for the entire year, printed in Amsterdam in 1693 in a small and convenient portable format—an אישי volume intended to accompany its owner ...
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LOT 42:
Complete Set of the “Levush” – Important Edition Edited by Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh of Modena. Venice, 1620. Before us is one of the early, important, and handsome editions of the celebrated Levush works, printed in Venice and edited by Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh of Modena (Leon Modena), one of the ...
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LOT 43:
Noheg KeTzon Yosef – Special Presentation Copy with Gilt Inscription to Dayan Rabbi Kashman Segal. Hanover, 1717. First Edition. A complete, distinguished, and impressive copy of one of the foundational works on Ashkenazic custom in general, and the authentic customs of Frankfurt am Main in ...
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LOT 44:
Sefer HaTapuach Asher LeAristotle, together with Mashal HaKadmoni by Isaac ibn Sahula. Frankfurt an der Oder, [1693]. Sefer HaTapuach Asher LeAristotle, together with Mashal HaKadmoni by Isaac ibn Sahula. Frankfurt an der Oder, 1693. Rare illustrated edition with dozens of original woodcuts. ...
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LOT 45:
Kevod Elohim – A Foundational Work of Jewish Philosophy by the Sage Rabbi Yosef ben Shem Tov. Ferrara, 1555. First Edition. A rare first edition of one of the important works of Jewish thought printed after the era of the Spanish expulsion, authored by the sage and philosopher Rabbi Yosef ben ...
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2,000
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LOT 46:
Beit HaUzieli – Sermons on the Weekly Torah Portions. Venice, 1604. Sole Edition. . A rare volume of homiletic discourses containing sixteen lengthy sermons on the weekly Torah portions, composed in a learned and richly developed style, with a detailed and organized index at the conclusion. ...
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LOT 47:
Sefer Mikveh Yisrael – Responsa of the Italian Sages Who Invalidated the Rovigo Mikveh, Edited by Rabbi Yehudah Saltaro of Fano. Venice, 1607. Sole Edition. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, a major halachic controversy erupted among the rabbis of Italy regarding the kashrut of the ...
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LOT 48:
Sefer HaShorashim and Sefer HaArokh – Two sixteenth-century Venice printings bound together in original vellum. A handsome and impressive volume containing two of the most important foundational works in the fields of Hebrew philology and the explanation of difficult Talmudic terms, both printed ...
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LOT 49:
A Sensational Discovery in the World of Kabbalah: The Sacred Handwritten Manuscript of the “Baal Shem of Michelstadt” Revealed – Dozens of Extensive Annotations on the Holy Zohar!. A rare and remarkable Kabbalistic discovery – numerous annotations on the Zohar in the holy handwriting of the ...
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20,000
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LOT 50:
Chazon Ovadiah – The Personal Copy of Maran the Chida, Bearing His Handwritten Signature. Sefer Chazon Ovadiah – Discourses on the Weekly Torah Portions, by Rabbi Ovadiah son of Rabbi Abraham HaLevi of Aleppo. Livorno, 1787. Sole Edition. Personal Copy of Maran the Chida Chazon Ovadiah ...
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