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LOT 1:
Sefer Yesod: Ma'asei Hashem – Includes Pesach Haggadah with Commentary. First Edition, Venice, 1583 * An important commentary on the Pesach Haggadah by Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi. Includes the full text of the Haggadah. The sefer includes commentaries on all the “Ma'asiyos” in the ...
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LOT 2:
Amsterdam Haggadah with Illustrations and Map of Eretz Yisrael 1712 * Spectacular Haggadah with striking copperplate illustrations and a detailed map of the borders of Eretz Yisrael. This is one of the most beautiful and impressive Haggadahs ever printed! The present Haggadah ...
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LOT 3:
Pesach Hagaddah with the Commentary of the Abarbanel – Brno, 1758 * Hagaddah Shel Pesach with the commentary of the Abarbanel printed alongside the text of the Hagaddah, together with a commentary according to the hidden realms of Torah printed at the bottom of the pages. This is the ...
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Pocket-Size Haggadah with Illustrations Amsterdam, 1778 * Pesach Haggadah with instructions and halachos, and Yiddish translation of the songs. Printed at the end of the Haggadah (leaf 32b) is the song 'Almachter Go-tt' in Yiddish, which Ashkenazic communities customarily sang at the ...
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Haggadah shel Pesach with Commentary by the Chida. First Edition. Simchas Haregel. Livorno, 1782 * Pesach Hagaddah with chiddushim and explanations on the Hagaddah, and drashos and allusions for the festival of Pesach, by Rabbeinu Chaim Yosef Dovid Azulai, known as the Chida. The text ...
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LOT 6:
Pesach Haggadah with Illustrations Exceedingly Rare Pages by the Alshich Offenbach, 1795 * Pesach Haggadah with the commentary of the Alshich on the halachos of bedikas chometz, halachos and instructions in Yiddish, and a commentary in Yiddish printed at the bottom of the pages. ...
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“Printed at the Behest of the Chasam Sofer!” Haggadah Shel Pesach with the Shtar Mechiras Chametz Prepared by the Chasam Sofer – Vienna, 1826 * Pesach Haggadah together with the booklet Beis Chorin, containing the halachos and laws of Pesach, with a Yiddish translation by Rabbi Ber ...
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LOT 8:
Pesach Hagaddah with French Translation – with Musical Notes and Beautiful Illustrations – Paris, 1865 * Pesach Hagaddah, carefully edited and attractively arranged, translated into French according to the custom of Ashkenazim and Sephardim. The entire Hagaddah is printed in Hebrew and ...
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LOT 9:
Magnificent Pesach Machzor Presented as a Gift by Rabbi Shaul HaLevi, Av Beis Din of The Hague, and His Wife, Rebbetzin Dina, Granddaughter of the Chacham Tzvi Amsterdam, 1768 * A Pesach machzor according to the Ashkenazi rite, with the intentions of the author of the tefillos ...
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LOT 10:
Prayers for Pesach: Machzor for the Three Festivals. Shapira Press. Zhitomir, 1857. * Machzor, Chelek Beis, for the three festivals: Sukkos and Simchas Torah, Pesach, and Shavuos, with a commentary for the piyutim and yotzros printed along the sides of the pages, and their translation ...
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LOT 11:
Tehillos Hashem. Seder Tikkun for the Seventh Night of Pesach. Venice, 1740. New Revised Edition. * Tehillos Hashem, the order of study for the night of the Seventh Day of Pesach, presented here in a new edition different from all its predecessors, edited by Rabbi Menachem Neveirah. ...
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LOT 12:
Rare: The Pesach HaGadol Drashah by the Yaabetz, First Edition. Printed in the Author's Home. Altona, 1775 * A highly valuable drashah for Shabbos HaGadol, delivered by the Yaabetz during his tenure as Rav of Emden in 1730, and later repeated in Altona in 1774. At the foot of ...
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LOT 13:
Rare Jewish Document from Chicago: A Chametz-Sale Contract Bearing the Signatures of About One Hundred Jews! Chicago, 1903 * A document from the year 1903 containing approximately one hundred signatures (!) of Jews appointing Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Broda, one of the rabbanim of Chicago ...
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LOT 14:
Rare Remnant of Jewish Life: A Remarkable Handwritten Advertisement for the Sale of Mehudar Matzos – Central/Eastern Europe, 19th Century * A large leaf (approximately 21 x 33.5 cm), bearing a handwritten notice by the merchant Kalman Tzvi Segal, announcing the sale of mehudar matzos. ...
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LOT 15:
Pirkei Avos. First Edition of the Commentary of the Raavan and Mincha Chadasha. Cracow, 1576 * Pirkei Avos with a commentary compiled from the most important commentators on the maseches, titled Mincha Chadasha, by the gaon Rabbi Yechiel Michel Moraptshick of Lublin. The commentary ...
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LOT 16:
Rare: Shishah Sidrei Mishnah in One Volume – Students' Edition – Venice, 1776 * A comprehensive volume of Mishnayos designed for students, featuring all six orders of the Mishnah organized sequentially, presented without commentaries and including vowels. The volume is divided into two ...
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LOT 17:
Special Printing for the Students of the Yeshiva of the Pnei Yehoshua – Maseches Megillas Taanis – Berlin, 1734 * The well-known maseches Megillas Taanis, written during the Second Temple period, containing a list of dozens of days throughout the year on which fasting is prohibited due to ...
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LOT 18:
First Halacha Sefer! Sefer Yesod: Sheiltos D’Rav Achai Gaon. First Edition. Venice, 1546. Bomberg Press. * Halachos and rulings based on the order of the Torah portions by Rav Achai of Shivcha, one of the first Geonim in Babylonia. Sefer HaSheiltos was the very first halachic ...
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LOT 19:
Sefer Yesod: Toras HaBayis HaKatzar by the Rashba First edition. Cremona, 1565. Bound with Sefer Avodas HaLevi – Venice, 1546 * Two sefarim bound together for more than four hundred years: 1. Toras HaBayis, laws and halachic rulings by the Rashba. Cremona, 1565. A sefer yesod ...
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LOT 20:
Sefer Yesod: Shu”t HaRashba Livorno, 1657. First Edition. * Four hundred and five teshuvos by Rabbeinu Shlomo ben Aderet, the Rashba, on matters of Choshen Mishpat. The Rashba’s teshuvos were printed over the course of many centuries. The present edition bears the title Toldos Adam ...
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LOT 21:
Rabbeinu Yerucham Sefer Toldos Adam V'Chavah U'Meisharim Venice, 1553 * Halachic rulings and laws by Rabbeinu Yerucham ben Meshulam of Provence. Rabbeinu Yerucham was one of the great Rishonim, a disciple of the Rosh. His sefer, Toldos Adam V'Chavah, was accepted as one of the ...
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LOT 22:
Sefer Yesod: Shu" t Mahar" i Weil, with Shechitos U'Bedikos. First Edition. Venice, 1549. * Responsa of Mahar"i Weil, containing several works of great importance for customs of Ashkenazi Jewry at the end of the Rishonim period, by the Gaon Rabbeinu Yaakov Weil (Mahar"i), one of the ...
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LOT 23:
Sefer Yesod from the Era of Rishonim: Sefer Ra'avan. First edition. Prague, 1610. * Sefer Ra'avan containing teshuvos, halachic rulings, and explanations on various masechtos of Talmud Bavli. It was authored by one of the great Rishonim, Rabbi Eliezer son of Nosson of Mainz, a ...
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LOT 24:
Pardes Rimonim on the Aggados of the Talmud. Sabbioneta, 1554. First Edition. * The sefer Pardes Rimonim is a commentary, composed using a rational approach bordering on philosophy, on the aggados of Chazal in Talmud Bavli, arranged according to the order of the masechtos. It was ...
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LOT 25:
Slavita Tur. Complete Four Volume Set of the Tur. Shapira Press. Slavita, 1815. * A complete set of four large volumes of the Tur of Rabbeinu Yaakov ben HaRosh, together with its classic commentaries: Beis Yosef and Bedek HaBayis by Rabbi Yosef Karo, and Darkei Moshe by Rabbi ...
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LOT 26:
Sefer Yesod: Shu”t Chacham Tzvi. Amsterdam, 1712. First Edition. * 169 questions and responses, chiddushim and explanations by Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi, Av Beis Din of the Ashkenazic community in Amsterdam. One of the most important works of halachic responsa! In the sefer’s ...
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LOT 27:
Sefer Yesod: Shu"t Rabbi Akiva Eiger. Warsaw, 1834. First Edition. * A sefer of rulings and letters containing 224 responsa from the gadol hador Rabbi Akiva Eiger, Av Beis Din of Pozen. Since the publication of the sefer, it has remained in constant use and is regularly studied in ...
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LOT 28:
Three Sefarim Bearing the Signatures of the Great Gaon Rabbi Akiva Eiger of Posen * A collection of three sefarim of commentary and halacha that belonged to Rabban shel Yisrael, Rabbeinu Akiva Eiger, in which he studied and toiled with an incomparable passion and love for Torah. Each ...
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LOT 29:
Handwritten Letter by Rabbi Shimon Oish to Rabbi Elazar Flekeles, Av Beis Din of Prague, Regarding His Sefer Teshuva MeAhavah Bound Within a Copy of Teshuva MeAhavah * A handwritten and autographed letter by Rabbi Shimon Oish, one of the sages of Prague, addressed to Rabbi Elazar ...
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LOT 30:
Famed Sefer Yesod Minchas Chinuch First Edition. Lemberg, 1869. * A massive exposition on the order of the 613 mitzvos in Sefer HaChinuch, written "with tremendous pilpul and astonishing, remarkable mastery, " by the outstanding gaon, the Sar HaTorah, Rabbi Yosef Babad, Av Beis ...
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LOT 31:
Sefer Yesod of Hilchos Shabbos: Zichru Toras Moshe by the Chayei Adam. Vilna, 1817. First Edition. * The sefer Zichru Toras Moshe, “including all the laws of Shabbos with their fine points and details, ” together with an abridgment of the Sefer Chareidim on the 613 mitzvos. It ...
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LOT 32:
Unique! A Sefer with Three Distinct Signatures of the Chida! Pesach Bais David, Part II Saloniki, 1746 * The sefer Pesach Bais David, Part II, Shu" t on the laws of Even Ha'ezer and Choshen Mishpat by Rabbi Yosef David, Av Beis Din in Saloniki. The Chida in Shem HaGedolim ...
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LOT 33:
Unpublished Manuscript Chiddushim on Sugyos by a Disciple of Maharam Bennet 1820–1830 * A complete manuscript of 94 sides in the handwriting of its author, containing chiddushim on sugyos from several masechtos in Shas, and, at the end, several teshuvos. The author was a ...
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LOT 34:
Handwritten Halachic Ruling of the Sho’el U’Meishiv on the Rights to the Position of Shochet Lvov, 1867 * A halachic ruling written in the holy handwriting and bearing the signature of the brilliant gaon Rabbi Yosef Shaul HaLevi Nathanson, Av Beis Din of Lvov, who authored thousands ...
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LOT 35:
A Letter of Torah Chiddushim by the Gaon Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Chayes. Zolkiew, 1852 * A lengthy letter of Torah chiddushim in the handwriting of the Gaon Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Chayes, author of the glosses of Maharatz Chayes, printed in the Vilna Shas. The Gaon Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Chayes ...
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LOT 36:
Chiddushim on Sugiyos of the Ksav Sofer, Handwritten by a Student Pressburg, c. 1860s * A booklet of Torah chiddushim containing four lengthy sugiyos of the Ksav Sofer, Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Sofer, the illustrious son and successor of the Chasam Sofer. The booklet was written by ...
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LOT 37:
Chiddushei Torah in the Handwriting of Rabbi Avraham Shag, Av Beis Din of Kobersdorf, a Leading Talmid of the Chasam Sofer 1840 * Six large pages containing chiddushim on the sugyos of Maseches Pesachim and Shavuos, in the handwriting of Rabbi Avraham Shag-Zwebner. Written at the top ...
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LOT 38:
A Segulah for Healing from the Sar Shalom of Belz! In the Handwriting of Rabbi Eliezer Deutsch of Bonyhád * A complete handwritten and autographed letter by the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Deutsch, Av Beis Din of Bonyhád, author of Tevuos HaSadeh, and one of the Gedolei Hador in Hungary and ...
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LOT 39:
Letter of the Maharam Sofer, Av Beis Din of Tiszafüred, and his Son-in-Law Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Strasser 1912 * A postal card written jointly by father-in-law and son-in-law, from the distinguished family in Hungary: - Rabbi Moshe Sofer, Av Beis Din of Tiszafüred, the first child ...
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LOT 40:
“Is my strength the strength of stones?” Fascinating Handwritten Teshuva by the Maharsham of Brezhan 1890 * A handwritten and autographed halachic teshuva by the towering gaon Rabbi Shalom Mordechai HaKohen Shwadron, Av Beis Din of Brezhan, one of the great pillars of Torah and ...
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LOT 41:
Letter of Blessings by the Galician Posek Rabbi Meir Arik, Av Beis Din of Buczacz Vienna, 1921 * A handwritten and autographed letter of blessing by the illustrious gaon Rabbi Meir Arik, Av Beis Din of Tarnow, author of Minchas Pittim, Imrei Yosher, Tal Torah, and other sefarim. In ...
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LOT 42:
Teshuva on the Laws of Pesach and Other Matters by Rabbi Mordechai Winkler, Av Beis Din of Mad, Author of Levushei Mordechai – 1913 * A halachic teshuva addressing several sugyos: the blessing on one’s tallis prior to wrapping oneself in it; the parameters of the prohibition of chametz on ...
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LOT 43:
Halachic Letter and Kvittel by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Yerucham, Av Beis Din of Altstadt – 1909 * A lengthy letter of three and a half large pages, in the handwriting and bearing the signature of the gaon and chassid Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Yerucham, Av Beis Din of Altstadt (Old ...
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LOT 44:
Letter of Torah Thoughts from Rabbi Meir Dan Plotzky, author of Kli Chemdah – Warta, 1907 * At the beginning of the letter, Rabbi Plotzky mentions one of his sefarim that had not yet been completed in print, apparently referring to Kli Chemdah, volume III on Sefer Vayikrah. He then ...
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LOT 45:
Midrash Osiyos DeRabbi Akiva – Venice, 1546 Attributed to the holy Tanna Rabbi Akiva * An early Midrash attributed to the holy Tanna Rabbi Akiva ben Yosef, containing drashos, hidden secrets, and chiddushim on the letters of the alef-beis. Already in the Gemara in maseches Minchos ...
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LOT 46:
Sha'arei Orah Sefer Yesod in Kabbalah from the Period of the Zohar’s Revelation Mantua, 1561 * A work intended for those beginning the study of Kabbalah, authored by Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla, one of the great Kabbalists of Spain in the 13th century. Sefer Sha'arei Orah is regarded ...
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LOT 47:
Mafte'ach HaZohar, with New Passages of the Zohar! Venice, 1566 * Sefer Mafte'ach HaZohar, true to its name, is a key to the Sefer HaZohar printed in Mantua a few years earlier. The sefer contains two distinct kinds of indexes. The first follows the order of the pesukim of Tanach. ...
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LOT 48:
Shulchan Aruch HaAri – First Edition of the Remarkable Iggeres HaShabbos of the Ibn Ezra – Frankfurt an der Oder, 1690 * Sefer Shulchan Aruch HaAri, containing collections of halachos, customs, and kavanos according to Kabbalah, following the path of the Arizal. “Great importance is ...
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LOT 50:
Famous Sefer Segulah Raziel HaMalach First Edition of the Glosses of the Maggid of Kozhnitz! Warsaw, 1812 * An early kabbalistic sefer about the heavenly constellations, names of the ministering angels, the creation of the world, and segulos and amulets to banish evil spirits. ...
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LOT 51:
Tehillos Yisrael Commentary of the Kozhnitzer Maggid on Sefer Tehillim Warsaw, 1861. First Edition. * A beautiful commentary on Sefer Tehillim of Dovid HaMelech by the holy Maggid Rabbi Yisrael of Kozhnitz. First edition. Printed from his own handwritten notes that appeared in the ...
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