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Rare and exciting collection of precious items, the best of collectibles and Segulah items:
Letters by Chassidic shepherds, pedigreed copies of Tzaddikim, manuscripts by leading rabbis, books printed at the pedigreed printeries of Slavuta and Zhytomyr, artifacts that had belonged to Tzaddikim and first editions.
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LOT 1:
Vellum of a Sefer Torah, Ashkenazic script, [70] vellum sheets [42] lines per column, Ashkenazic Beit Yosef script. Height of vellum: 51 cm. and some sheets, 48 cm. Vellum without Atzei Chaim, varied conditions of varied sheets; on some sheets, the letters are faded and blemished. Some ...
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LOT 2:
Vellum of an old Sefer Torah - [50] velum sheets, Sephardic script. 42 lines per colimn, Sephardic script. Height of vellum: 37 cm. The shape of the letter ח is based on Rashi's opinion - without the Chatoteret on its top. Vellum without Atzei Chaim, varied conditions of varied sheets; ...
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LOT 3:
Old Ashkenazic Sefer Torah. Complete. Small. Small Sefer Torah with [46[ vellum sheets. [42] lines per column, tiny, ancient Ashkenazic script. Height of vellum: 18 cm. Height of Aztei Chaim: 47 cm. With an ornate velvet Torah mantle. Varied conditions of varied sheets; some sheets with ...
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LOT 4:
Parashiyot Tefillin Mehudarot Written by Rabbi Aharon Unger who Wrote Tefillin for Maran the Chazon Ish. Parashiyot Tefillin Mehudarot written by the expert scribe Rabbi Aharon Unger of Magdiel, who wrote Tefillin for Maran the Chazon Ish. Rabbi Aharon Unger was an expert scribe who lived in ...
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LOT 5:
Parashiyot Tefillin Written by the Scribe of the Holy Rav Rabbi Aharon of Belz - Rabbi Yosef Kesler. Pedigreed and important Parashiyot Tefillin, written by the famed expert scribe Rabbi Yosef Kesler of Lubavitch who wrote the most pedigreed Sefer Torah of the Belz Chassidut. Three Parashiyot ...
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LOT 6:
Set of Ancient Parashiyot Tefillin - More Than Two Hundred Years Old Sephardic Script. Set Parashiyot of Tefillin shel Rosh and Yad, most ancient, Sephardic script, from the Balkan area, more than two hundred years old. The Sephardic script and ink and vellum technique teach about the ...
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LOT 7:
Elegenat Mezuzah - Especially Large. Large and elegant Kosher mezuzah, Ari script. Size of vellum: 45X47 cm. Placed in a transparent Acrylic glass cylinder. Excellent condition.
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LOT 8:
Amulet for Protection. Sephardic Script. "תהיה עוזר ומגן וצנה בעד נושא נושא הזה.... מכל מיני רעות שבעולם ותפלטהו ותצילהו מכל אורב ואויב ושונא ופגעים רעים ורוחות רעות" - amulet on parchment, with angels' names, Kabbalistic combination of letters and a prayer. Sephardic script. [1] amulet. ...
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Amulet for Protection and Segulah. Sephardic Script . "תהיה עוזר ומגן וסומך ליוסף ב"מ שרה " - amulet on parchment, with angels' names and tables with Kabbalistic combination of letters and a prayer. Sephardic script. [1] amulet. Width: 6 cm. Maximal length: 47 cm. Most of the amulet was ...
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$380
LOT 10:
Sefer HeAruch. Edition of the Printer Baragadin. Venice, 1553. Sefer HeAruch, by Rabbeinu Nosson ben Rabbi Yechiel of Rome. Venice, [1553]/ With dozens of handwritten glosses. Rare. Sefer HeAruch by the Gaon rabbi Nosson ben Rabbi Yechiel of Rome. Alviso Baragadin Press, Venice [1553]. Rare. ...
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$1,600
LOT 11:
Commentary on the Ibn Ezra. First and Rare Edition. Venice, 1554. Commentary on the commentary of the Ibn Ezra on the Torah, by Rabbi Shmuel Mutot. Venice, [1554]. First and rare Edition. Megillat Starim, commentary by Rabbi Shmuel Mutot on the Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Torah. Alvisi ...
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$240
LOT 12:
Ma'aynei HaYeshu'ah by the Abravanel - Amsterdam, [1647] Second and Rare Edition . Ma'aynei HaYeshu'ah, commentary on Sefer Daniel by Rabbi Don Yitzchak Abravanel - [Amsterdam, 1647]. Second edition. Rare. Don Yitzchak Abravanel (ca. 1437-1508) one of the leaders of the Jews of the Iberian ...
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LOT 13:
Matzat Shimurim. Kabbalah. First Edition. Venice, 1760. Sefer Matzat Shimurim by the Kabbalist Rabbi Nosson Shapiro - First Edition - Venice, 1760 - bound with ten handwritten leaves from the 18th century, containing "rules from the Ari's writings" The handwritten "rules from the Ari's ...
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LOT 14:
First Edition! Rare! Sdeh Yehoshua on Yerushalmi Zera'im. Kushta, 1662. Sdeh Yehoshua, elucidation on some tractates of the Yerushalmi Seder Zera'im [with the text], by Rabbi Yehoshua [Raphael] Benvanist. Avraham Gabai Press. Kushta, 1662. First edition. Rare. 2, 192, 185-190 leaves. 30 cm. ...
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LOT 15:
Sefer Olat Tamid VeOlat Shabbat by Rabbi Shmuel of Krakow - Amsterdam 1681 - First Editon that was Printed in the Author's Lifetime - Scholarly Glosses from the 18th Century - Incomplete Copy Inside the book, several lengthy scholarly glosses from the 18th century. In addition, on the last ...
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LOT 16:
Single Edition! Rare! Darkei Noam. Amsterdam, 1688. Darkei Noam. Klalei HaTalmud and at its end, Tiv Taam on Taamei Mikra and Darkei Hashem, indices for taryag Mitzvot. Amsterdam, 1688. Rare book. Single edition. By the sage Rabbi Shlomo di Oliveira, Rav of the Sephardic community of Amsterdam ...
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LOT 17:
Sefer Divrei Chachamim, including Da'at Chochmah and Mekor Chochmah with Solet Blulah, by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Pochovitzer of Pinsk. [Hamburg], [1692]. First edition. Sefer Divrei Chachamim, two sections. Ancient ownership signatures and notations on the front flyleaf and title page: "הספר ...
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LOT 18:
Ir Binyamin on the Shas. First Edition. Frankfurt an der Oder, 1698. Sefer Ir Binyamin, a work on Aggadot Hashas Ein Yaakov section II [most of Seder Nashim and tractates Bava Kama and Bava metzi'a] by Rabbi Binyomin Zeev Wolf Av Beis Din of Zmigrod. Michl Gutt Shalk Press, Frankfurt an der ...
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LOT 19:
Hanoten Imrei Shefer, Frankfurt am Main, 1713 Copy of the Tzaddik Rav Rabbi Menachem Manish Sofer of Siget. Sefer Hanoten Imrei Shefer, by Rabbi Eliyahu ben Chaim. Reprinted in Frankfurt am Main, 1713. Copy of the Tzaddik Rav, the famed scribe Rabbi Menachem Manish Sofer of Siget. His ...
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LOT 20:
Damesek Eliezer. First Edition. Wilhelmsdorf, 1718. Damesek Eliezer by Rabbi Eliezer ben Rabbi Yehoshua of Shebrashin, commentary on Torat Hachatat Hakatzar by the Rema [with the text]. The press of Hirsch ben Rabbi Chaim of Furth, Wilhelmsdorf, [1718]. First edition. Rare. [4], 75 [i.e. 74] ...
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LOT 21:
Rare Tzintzenet Menachem, First Edition, Berlin 1720. Sefer Tzintzenet Menachem, on Aggadot Chazal - First Edition - Berlin 1720 - ancient signatures and notations. Signatures and notations on the title page and last leaf. 98; 2 leaves. Dampness stains on some leaves. Tears to the last two ...
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LOT 22:
Orach Mishor on Masechet Nazir. Berlin, 1723. Orach Mishor, elucidations and innovations on Masechet Nazir, by Rabbi Yochanan Kremnitzer. Nosson Neumark Press, Berlin, 1723. First Edition. This book is one of the basic ones on Masechet Nazir and was approbated by the rabbis of Berlin, Posen ...
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LOT 23:
Sha'arei Dura, Jessenitz, 1724 Pedigreed Copy. Sefer Sha'arei Dura - Jessenitz, 1724 - signatures and stamps of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Nachum Blum of Grosswardein (the son of the Beit She'arim) and his Son Shmuel Shmelkeh On the title page and the front guard leaf, stamps and signatures: "משה ...
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$1,700
LOT 24:
Kehilot Moshe. Amsterdam, 1724-1728 Handwritten Glosses from the Period - from Haleb. Kehilot Moshe, [4] volumes, a complete set of Tanach Mikra'ot Gedolot, edited by the publisher and printer, the Dayan Rabbi Moshe Frankfurt of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, 1724-1728. With h andwritten glosses on ...
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LOT 25:
222 - [2] rare books by Rabbi Chizkiya Da Silva. Amsterdam, [1730], in a single volume: Pri Chadash, the Yoreh Deah sections and Sefer Mayim Chaim on the Talmud, the Rambam and more. * Sefer Pri Chadash, elucidation on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah [Siman 46-149, with the text and Likutim] by the ...
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LOT 26:
Shevet Mussar by Rabbi Eliyahu Hacohen of Izmir. Amsterdam, [1732]. Rare. Shevet Mussar, on Mussar and Yirat Hashem, with an Ashkenazic translation by Rabbi Eliyahu Hacohen of Izmir. Hertz Halevi Rofe Press, Amsterdam, [1732]. Rare. Please refer to Hebrew cataog text for a brief biography ...
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LOT 27:
Zara Yitzchak on the Mishnayot. Frankfurt an der Oder, 1732. Single and Rare Edition . Zara Yitzchak on the Mishnayot, by Rabbi Yitzchak Chayut. Frankfurt an der Oder, 1732. Single edition. Rare. Sefer Zara Yitzchak on the Mishnayot, compilation of Rabbi Yitzchak Chayut's writings. Michael ...
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LOT 28:
Tosafot Yeshanim. Berlin, 1736. Tosafot Yeshanim [by Rabbi Moshe of Coucy] compiled by Rabbi Yosef Yesil pf Lisa. [The press of Aharon ben Moshe Rofeh?]. [Berlin], [1736]. Rare. Sefer Tosafot Yeshanim, which was found in an old manuscript. This book was originally published [with a special ...
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LOT 29:
Single Edition, Unique Book: Histarut Melech Hanegev im Melech Hatzafon. Amsterdam, 1737. Histarut Melech Hanegev im Melech Hatzafon, by Rabbi Yaakov Londin. Amsterdam, 1737. Single edition. Rare. Sefer Histarut Melech Hanegev [Hayetzer Hatov] im Melech Hatzafon [Hayetzer Hara], poetic ...
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LOT 30:
Seder Limud for Leil Shvi'i shel Pesach. Venice, 1740. Tehilot Hashem, Seder Limud for Leil Shvi'i shel Pesach. Published by Avraham Michael and Moshe Consilio, Winderman Press. Venice, [1740]. 50 leaves. 16 cm. After the Amsterdam 1725 edition, with variations and additions. On verso of the ...
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LOT 31:
Yosher Levav by Rabbi Emmanuel Chai Ricci. Amsterdam, 1742. First edition. Rare. . Yosher Levav by Rabbi Emmanuel Chai Ricci. Amsterdam, 1742. First edition. Rare. Sefer Yosher Levav by the great Kabbalist Rabbi Emmanuel Chai Ricci. Amsterdam, [1742]. First edition. Rare. [2], 42 leaves. 18 ...
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LOT 32:
Yavin Shemu'ah by the Rashbatz First Edition, 1744. Yavin Shemu'ah by the Rashbatz with Tikkun Sofrim by his son the Rashbash. Avraham Milodela Press, Livorno, [1744]. First edition. Rare. Sefer Yavin Shemu'ah, Hilchot Shechita, Bedika and Treifot, with Mamar Chametz on Hilchot Chametx and ...
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LOT 33:
Lechem Yehuda. First Edition, Livorno, 1745. Lechem Yehuda, on the Rambam, by Rabbi Yehuda Ayash. Avraham First Edition, Avraham Mildola Press, Livorno, 1745. First edition in the author's lifetime. [4], 118, [1] leaves. 32 cm. On the last page, a poem by the author "to inform his ...
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LOT 34:
Malki Bakodesh. First Edition. Salonika, 1740. Malki Bakodesh, elucidation on the Passover Haggadah [with the text], innovations on Hilchot Moadim and Likutim, by Rabbi Ezra Malki. Bezalel Halevi Press, Salonika, 1740. First edition. Rare. [2], 24; 18; 25-160 leaves. 29 cm. Otzar Hahaggadot ...
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LOT 35:
Sefer Pri HaAdamah on the Rambam, II [Nezikin-Shoftim], by the Rishon LeZion Rabbi [Raphael] Meyuchas ben Rabbi Shmuel. The press of Bezalel Halevi Ashkenazi, [1752]. First edition. The personal copy of Rabbi Avraham Chaim Adadi. [7], 174 leaves. 28 cm. [2] leaves are missing of the ...
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LOT 36:
Divrei Shlomo. Drush. Frankfurt, 1753-1754. Single Edition . Sefer Divrei Shlomo - Drushim on the Torah by the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Shalem - Frankfurt, 1753-1754 - Single Edition - with an Ancient Signature Signature on the title page: "חנני אלקי' גם בזה הק' שמואל בלא"א המונח [המנוח] יעקב יצחק ...
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LOT 37:
Minchat Yaakov, Mahadura Tanyana. Furth, 1763. Pedigreed Copy. Minchat Yaakov, two sections, by Rabbi Yaakov ben Rabbi Yosef Reisher. Furth, 1763. Copy of Rabbi Michl Leib Munk of Danzig. * Minchat Yaakov, on Sefer Torat Hachatat bu the Rema, by Rabbi Yaakov ben Rabbi Yosef Reisher. The ...
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LOT 38:
Single and Rare Edition! Shenot Chaim on Mishlei and Kohelet. Amsterdam, 1765. Shenot Chaim, [I-II] commentary on Mishlei and Kohelet, by Rabbi Chaim Yudentash Mazia, the leader of the Prague community. Leib Zusmanesh Press, Amsterdam, [1765]. Single and rare edition. [2], 58; [1] 19 leaves. ...
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LOT 39:
Me'orei Esh on the Torah and Megillot. Furth, 1766. First Edition . Me'orei Esh on the Torah and Megillot, by the Gaon Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt and his grandson. Itzak Madpis Press, Furth, [1766]. First Edition. The personal copy of Rabbi Yeshayahu Bardaki. Sefer Me'orei Esh on the Torah ...
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LOT 40:
Toldot Avraham - Furth, 1769 - First Edition . Toldot Avraham - Furth, 1769 - First Edition. Pedigreed copy. Sefer Toldot Avraham, innovations on tractates Kiddushin and Ketubot by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Broda Av Beis Din and Ram of Prague, Metz and Frankfurt, with sermons on the Torah ...
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LOT 41:
Shut Maharam of Lublin. Metz, 1769. Shut Maharam of Lublin. Joseph Antouan Press, Metz, [1769]. Second edition. Rare. [2], 7 leaves. Ownership notations and an owner's signature of the Ger community 1911 and a notation in Sephardic script מהגביר חכם המרומם... חיים יהושע צונצין נ"י נס"ו" ...
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LOT 42:
Rosh Amanah, Printed in Altona, 1770. Rosh Amanah, by Rabbi Don Yitzchak Abravanel. Moshe Bon Segal Press, Altona, [1770]. [3], 25, 29-35, [1] leaves. 18 cm. Owneship notations from the period on the flyleaf and title page. Owner's signature: הצעיר ישראל איסר חפ"ק אייבשיץ". Foreign stamp on ...
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LOT 43:
Sefer Or Chadash on Masechet Psachim by the Gaon Rabbi Elazar Kalir - Frankfurt an der Oder, 1876 - first edition - signatures, notations and gloss Ownership notation on the title page of Rabbi Reuven Hacohen Rappaport of Tarnopol. Rabbi Reuven Hacohen Rappaport of Tarnopol was a leading ...
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LOT 44:
Regel Yeshara. Single Edition. Dhyrenfurth, 1777. Regel Yeshara, Shiyurei rashi, at its end, Kuntres Lemidot Inishkolot and Kuntres Hanadsi Vehaarugah [by Rabbi Gedalya Lifshitz]. Yechiel Michl Mata Press, Dgyrenfurth, [1777]. Single edition. [2], 54 leaves. 19 cm. With approbations by the ...
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LOT 45:
Issur Veheiter. Prague, 1784. Sefer Issur Veheiter. Prague, 1784. Ownership notations from the period. Issur Veheiter (the long one), an important halachic work from the Rishonim period dealing with Hilchot Issur and Heiter, authored by Rabbi Yonah benRabbi Yisroel of Regensburg - a disciple ...
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LOT 46:
Beit Meir, Even HaEzer, by the Gaon Rabbi Meir Posner. Frankfurt an der Oder, [1787]. First edition. Published in the author's lifetime. Sefer Beit Meir, on Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer, with Tzla'ot Habayit. The press of the Grilla widow, Frankfurt an der Oder, [1787]. First edition. [1] ...
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LOT 47:
The Drush Book Se'udat Mitzvah. First Edition. Venice, 1791. Se'udat Mitzvah, Drushim for the Moadim and Yamim Noraim, by Rabbi Daniel Tirani of Ancona. Baragadin Press, Venice, 1791. First edition. Rare. [6], 75, [9] leaves. 27 cm. With stamps of Rabbi Binyomin Sheinfeld Av Beis Din of the ...
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$420
LOT 48:
First Edition in the Author's Lifetime Olat Chodesh. Prague, 1793. Olat Chodesh, III, 18 eulogies by Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi David [Fleckeles] Rosh Av Beis Din of Prague. Prague, 1793. First edition in the author's lifetime. [4], 85, [3] leaves. 21 cm. Rabbi Elazar ben Rabbi David ...
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LOT 49:
Simchat Mitzvah, for the Dedication of the Synagogue. Florence, 1793. Simchat Mitzvah, for the dedication of the Italian Synagogue of Florence, by Rabbi Daniel Tirani. Published by Gotano Kambiago, Florence, [1793]. 14 leaves. 20 cm. Some of the title page and the headings with red ...
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LOT 50:
Tzavat Yessod Veshoresh HaAvodah. First Edition. Horodna, 1794. Last will and testament of Baal Yessod Veshoresh HaAvodah. First edition. Horodna, 1794. A following edition that was an exact replica without the flowers on the title page was eventually published in Sudilkov in 1820. In this ...
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