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Auction 1 - Rare Hebrew Books, Manuscripts & Rabbinic Letters

Mizrahi Judaica Auctions presents Auction 1: 56 rare Hebrew books, manuscripts and autograph letters.
Lot 1:Autograph Letter Signed by Rabbi Meir Shapiro and the Imrei Emes of Ger – A Landmark Document of the Post-WWI Yeshiva Funding Crisis (Warsaw, 1920)

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$8,000
Lot 2:Novardok - Zaitchik, Rabbi Chaim Ephraim. A Remarkable Archive: A Cache of Nineteen Autograph Letters Signed (ALS) to his Primary Disciple, Rabbi Yonah Zahler.

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$800
Lot 3:MANUSCRIPT. Miniature Devotional Prayer Book. [Central Europe, 18th century].

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$1,000
Lot 4:MOROCCO. Manuscript collection of piske din by the Leading Rabbis of Morocco, including R. Moshe Berdugo, R. Shlomo ben Avraham Amar, R. Yaakov ibn Tzur, and Others. [Morocco, 18th–19th century].

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$1,000
Lot 5:Manuscript Anthology of Piyyutim and Supplicatory Prayers. [Central Europe, 18th century]

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$1,000
Lot 6:Autograph Manuscript Leaf of R. Eliyahu Gutmacher, the "Tzaddik of Greiditz" (Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poland).

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$1,200
Lot 7:CHINA. Manuscript Cantor’s Sheet Music Notebook – Main Synagogue of Harbin, China – Melodies for the Sabbath Prayer Service

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$2,800
Lot 8:NOTED COPY. Mahzor ke-Minhag Benei Roma (Two Volumes), Livorno 1867, annotated throughout by Prof. Elia Samuele (Shemuel) Artom.

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$700
Lot 9:IRAN. Decorated Ketubah in Booklet Form – Tehran, Iran, 1905

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$2,350
Lot 10:LADINO. ILLUSTRATED. AMULETS. Extraordinary Ottoman Sephardic Miscellany of Practical Kabbalah, Folk Medicine, Astrology and Amulets. Extensive Ladino Texts with Magical Diagrams, Angelic Alphabets and Divine-Name Tables.

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$1,200
Lot 11:BOMBERG TALMUD. Tractate Eruvin. Daniel Bomberg, Venice, 1528. Second Bomberg Edition

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$25,000
Lot 12:BOMBERG TALMUD TRACTATE MENAHOT Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1548. Third Edition (נדפס שלישית). Complete with Piskei Tosafot.

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$25,000
Lot 13:RALBAG R. Levi ben Gershom (Ralbag). Commentary on the Torah. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, by Cornelio Adelkind, 1547. Second edition.

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$1,000
Lot 14:RESPONSA SHE'ELOT U-TESHUVOT YA'AKOV LE-BEIT HA-LEVI. Venice, 1632-1634.

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$800
Lot 15:1559 CONSTANTINOPLE: R. Eliyahu Mizrahi - She'elot u-teshuvot. First edition.

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$2,000
Lot 16:1608 PRAGUE. KELI YAKAR. Second Edition, Author's Lifetime. R. Solomon Ephraim Luntschitz

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$1,000
Lot 17:Making of a Godol, First edition, Uncensored. 2 volume set. Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky. 2002

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$1,000
Lot 18:FEINSTEIN, Rabbi Moshe. An Extraordinary, Unprecedented Halachic Artifact Documenting the Sublime Humility of the Posek HaDor: Hand-Rewritten Ketubah and Tena’im. New York, 1957

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$1,500
Lot 19:LEVUSH – COMPLETE SET OF FOUR VOLUMES. Venice: Giovanni Cajon (Calioni) for the Bragadini Press, 1620. Edited by R. Yehudah Aryeh (Leon) Modena (1571–1648).

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$1,500
Lot 20:BOMBERG TALMUD. TRACTATE TEMURAH. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1522. First Edition.

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$10,000
Lot 21:MIDRASH TANCHUMA. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1545

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$1,500
Lot 22:VENICE 1523. Sefer ha-Terumah. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1523. First edition.

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$3,500
Lot 23:DON YOSEF IBN YAHYA, COMMENTARY ON THE FIVE MEGILLOT AND KETUVIM. Bologna: The Company of Jewish Silk Weavers, 1538.

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$2,500
Lot 24:BOMBERG TALMUD. MOED KATAN. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1526. Second Bomberg edition.

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$25,000
Lot 25:MASECHET KERITOT. VENICE, 1522. FIRST EDITION.

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$15,000
Lot 26:VENICE 1639. YAVIN SHEMU'AH. First Edition. Venice: Giovanni Martinelli for Giovanni Vendramin, 1639

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$1,000
Lot 27:VENICE 1628. KESEF MEZUKAK. First Edition. Venice: Giovanni Caleoni, 1628.

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$800
Lot 28:TEHILLIM. RICCHI, R. IMMANUEL HAI (1688–1743). Chazeh Tzion on Tehillim. First Edition. Livorno: Abraham Meldola, 1742–1743.

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$1,000
Lot 29:TIBERIAS YISHUV URGENT LETTER: Urgent Rabbinic Appeal Formulated by the Gedole Tiberias to the Rishon LeZion, HaGaon Rav Yaakov Shaul Elyashar zt”l (The “Yisa Bracha”), Regarding the Rabbinic Succession Crisis and Haluka Controversy of Tiberias.

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$800
Lot 30:AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM RABBI YOSEF TREVES TO RABBI MOSHE PROVENZALI AND HIS RESPONSE BACK Italy (Mantua and Savigliano), mid-sixteenth century.

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$8,000
Lot 31:RABBI ḤAYYIM BEN SHABBETAI (MAHARḤASH). Manuscript Leaf

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$8,500
Lot 32:SIGNATURE OF THE MAAVAR YABOK PROTOCOLS OF THE RABBINICAL COURT OF MODENA — AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF RABBI AHARON BEREKHIAH OF MODENA

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$9,000
Lot 33:RABBI RAPHAEL YESHAYA AZULAI (1743–1826) (SON OF THE CHID”A). AUTOGRAPH LETTER ON BEHALF OF AN IMPOVERISHED MELAMED.

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$4,800
Lot 34:RABBI IMMANUEL ḤAI RICCHI (1688–1743). AUTOGRAPH ITALIAN DOCUMENT SIGNED IN LATIN SCRIPT "R. EMANUEL VITA RICHI."

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$6,000
Lot 35:SHETAR HITKASHRUT OF THE JERUSALEM KABBALISTIC FRATERNITY, 1804 - SIGNATURES OF PROMINENT JERUSALEM RABBIS

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$10,000
Lot 36:SIGNATURE OF RABBI MOSHE ZACUTO (THE RAMAZ). AUTOGRAPH SALARY RECEIPT, COUNTERSIGNED BY RABBI YEHUDAH BRIEL.

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$6,500
Lot 37:R. SHLOMO EIGER — EXTENSIVELY REVISED AUTOGRAPH WORKING DRAFT OF HIS HALACHIC EXCHANGE WITH HIS FATHER, R. AKIVA EIGER

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$3,000
Lot 38:Autograph Letter written and Signed by Rabbi Bezalel Ronsburg to His Brother-in-Law and Study Partner, Rabbi Yehudah Kleinburg; Plass, 9 Elul 5568 (1 September 1808).

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$12,000
Lot 39:Autograph Manuscript from the Working Notebook of R. Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky ("The Steipler") (1899–1985).

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$10,000
Lot 40:AUTOGRAPH FOLIO FROM RABBI ḤAYYIM VITAL'S PRIVATE BOOK OF REMEDIES, SEGULLOT, AND PRACTICAL KABBALAH

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$48,000
Lot 41:Autograph Postcard of R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg to R. Simcha Elberg, Editor of HaPardes. Montreux, Switzerland, 1951.

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$400
Lot 42:Autograph Responsum of R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin to R. Abraham Isaac ha-Kohen Kook. Dated 1928.

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$400
Lot 43:A Profound Letter of Torah Encouragement from Maran Rav Ovadia Yosef זצ"ל — Guidance for One Striving for Greatness in Torah

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$300
Lot 44:Autograph Postcard of R. Aryeh Tzvi Partzovitz, Rav of Troki, to the Va'ad ha-Yeshivot. Troki (Trakai), Lithuania, 1938.

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$500
Lot 45:KORBAN AHARON. VENICE, 1609–1611. THE NODA BEYEHUDAH’S COPY, WITH HIS UNIQUE SIGNATURE IN “ATBASH”

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$12,000
Lot 46:VENICE 1546 Terumat ha-Deshen. Venice: Cornelio Adelkind for Marco Antonio Giustiniani, Kislev 5306 [1545/1546]. Second edition.

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$1,000
Lot 47:Manuscript Prayer of R. Samuel Archevolti תפילה לבית החיים לתשעה באב Prayer for the bet ha-chaim on Tisah BeAv

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$750
Lot 48:Autograph Manuscript of Kol Chatan Ve-Kol Kallah Turin, 1826 by R. Hillel (Lelio) HaKohen (1805-1871)

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$1,000
Lot 49:Siddur Safah Berurah, Rödelheim: Hebrew Press of Wolf (Binyamin Ze’ev) Heidenheim, 1826.

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$600
Lot 50:VENICE 1545. R. ELIYAHU MIZRAHI, SUPERCOMMENTARY TO RASHI ON THE TORAH. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, by Cornelio Adelkind, 1545.

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$1,000