Auction 20 Tiferet 20 - Rare and Special Items
By Tiferet Auctions
Dec 1, 2020
Shenhav Building, Beit Hadfus st , Jerusalem, Israel

A special auction of rare items: 

First editions of Hassidic Sefarim, Slavita-Zhitomir, letters by Tzaddikim and the greatest Hassidic Rabbis, the Geonim of Ashkenaz and Hungary, the greatest Rabbis of Lithuania, the greatest Poskim of previous generations, pedigreed copies, artifacts of renowned Tzaddikim, Satmar, Chabad and more.  

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LOT 104:

Letter for the Sake of Kedushat HaShabbat by great luminaries of the previous generation with their signatures ...


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Auction took place on Dec 1, 2020 at Tiferet Auctions

Letter for the Sake of Kedushat HaShabbat by great luminaries of the previous generation with their signatures, Jerusalem, 1960.

Signatures of great luminaries  of the previous generation on a letter for the sake of Sabbath observance. Jerusalem, 1960.


The letter (which was sent to the organizers of the national conference for the sake of the Sabbath in Tel Aviv) is signed by Gedolei HaDor: the Gaon of Tshebin - Rabbi Dov Berish Widenfeld, the Gaon Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin - the chairman of Moetzes Gedolei haTorah, Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel - Rosh Yeshivat Mir, and the Geonim Rabbi Ezra Atiyya and Rabbi Yehuda Tzeddaka - the Rashei Yeshivat Porat Yosef. 


In the letter, Gedolei HaDor appeal to the organizers of the conference for the sake of Kedushat HaShabbat, writing: "Shabbat Malketa ... has been despoiled within the palace of a king ... due to our many vices, hundreds of workers whose fathers stood on Mount Sinai hearing from    G-d "זכור את יום השבת לקדשו", are working in industry and trade, unwillingly and willingly..."


32X21 cm. light fold marks, very good condition.