Bidspirit auctions | King David Auctions Auction Mar 19, 2018

King David Auctions, Mar 19, 2018. 298 lots, estimates 250 - 30000 $.

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Historical Documents, Rare Books, Rabbis Letters, Art and Banknotes

Lots in this catalog (298)

Lot 1: Megilah Tractate – Venice, — $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 3: Tur Orach Chaim with the "Va'Yigash Yehuda" Commentary by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Chanales (the Maharlach), — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 4: Chamisha Chumshei Torah – Sabbioneta, 1556-1558 – Miniature Volume – Scholarly Glosses — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 5: Chamisha Chumshei Torah and the Five Scrolls – Frankfurt an der Oder, 1596 – Extremely Rare — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 6: Commentary of Sefer Mitzvot Gadol – Venice, 1605 – Approbation by the Maharsah! – Single Edition – Signed Gloss — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 7: Historical Discovery: the Simanim of the Seder in Aramaic – Yemen, the 17th Century — $4,000 - $8,000
Lot 8: Passover Haggadah "Ma'aleh Beit Chorin" – Amsterdam, Proops, [1810] - with Impressive Illustrations and Map — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 9: Passover Hagaddah "Chaluka De'Rabanan" – Amsterdam 1695 – a Rare Copy on Blue Paper — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 10: The First Haggdah in the World in English – a Historical Item from the Early Days of the Jewish Community of England – — $30,000 - $50,000
Lot 11: The First Siddur that was Printed in Jerusalem – "Siddur Tefilot Yisrael" – Jerusalem, — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 12: Na Nach Nachman Me'Uman: the Holy "Petek" (Note) Handwritten by "Ba'al Ha'Petek" Rabbi Yisrael Dov Odesser – Segulah — $8,000 - $12,000
Lot 13: Wine Made by Head of Yeshiva Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman — $500 - $1,200
Lot 14: Wine Made by the Rebbe Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshil of Machnovka – Purim, 1985 — $500 - $1,200
Lot 15: Sabbath Candlestick of the Rebbe of Jikov Rabbi Yehuda Horowitz / a Knife for Cutting Apples during the Tish on Sabbath — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 16: Impressive Skullcap of a Rebbe — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 17: Tikkun Shiva be'Adar – the Copy of the Author of "Kaf Ha'Chaim" – with His Signature and Glosses — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 18: Kabbalistic-Hassidic Siddur (with Tikkun Chatzot) from which Rabbi Yehuda Ze'ev Leibowitz had Prayed in His Youth — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 19: The Book of Psalms of the Rebbe of Sochaczew Rabbi David Borenstein from which he had Prayed during the Holocaust – — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 20: Parashiyot of Tefillin shel Rosh, Most Impressive, Handwritten by the Well-Known Scribe Rabbi Nachman Papirna — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 21: Ein Ya'akov – the Copy from which the Baba Sali had Studied, with His Stamp and an Interesting Handwritten Inscription — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 23: Letter by Rabbi Meir Abuhatzeira – the "Baba Meir" – Morocco, 1950 — $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 24: A Touching Letter handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Shalom Abuhatzeira – the Six-Day_war, 1967 — $500 - $800
Lot 25: Ha'Hashlama (Paris, 1885) – a Special Copy Printed on Parchment – (of the Library of Baron Ginzburg?] — $15,000 - $20,000
Lot 26: Tefilot Ha'Mo'adim – Amsterdam, 1726 – an Impressive Copy Given by the 'Avi Yetomim' Company to Its Presidents — $800 - $1,200
Lot 27: Shiv'im Tikunei Ha'Zohar - Amsterdam, 1706 - Sabbatean Title Page — $500 - $800
Lot 28: A Special Book in Honor of the Crowning of Princess Caroline Augusta of Bavaria – [Offen, 1825] — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 29: Machzor 'Erech Ha'Tefilot' for Sukkot – with a Velvet Binding and a Silver Buckle – Paris, 1867 – Impressive Item — $800 - $1,200
Lot 30: Siddur with a New English Translation – London, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 31: "Ezrat Ha'Sofer" Chumashim in One Volume – Amsterdam, — $800 - $1,200
Lot 32: Tikkun Sofrim with the Haftarot – Amsterdam, 1726 – Illustrated Title Pages — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 34: Chukei Da'at – Warsaw, — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 36: The Nidah Tractate – Frankfurt am Mein, 1720 – the Copy of the "Shav Ya'akov" Av Beit Din of Frankfurt – [Glosses, — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 37: Dvar Shmuel (Venice, 1702) – Signature of the Author of the "Shav Ya'akov", Rabbi Ya'akov Katz Av Beit Din of Frankfurt — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 38: Leshon Limudim – the First Edition of the Ramchal's Book – Mantova, — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 39: Volume of Books with the Signature of the 'Ketav Sofer' – Approbations by His Father the 'Chatam Sofer' and His — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 40: Ir Giborim – Signature of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Lifshitz, the First Rabbi of Warsaw — $600 - $1,000
Lot 41: Ha'Rashba Responsa – the Copy of the Chafetz Chaim, Signed by Him –with His Handwritten Glosses — $12,000 - $18,000
Lot 42: Ve'Shav Ha'Cohen – a Copy Given by the Author Rabbi Raphael of Hamburg – Altona, 1792 — $500 - $1,000
Lot 44: Leaves of the Tractates of the Talmud that were Printed in Constantinople and Salonika / Leaves with Corrections and — $500 - $1,000
Lot 45: Tehillim with Ma'amadot – Slavita, 1833 – a Rare Edition that has Never been seen in Auctions — $12,000 - $15,000
Lot 46: Set of Chamisha Chumshei Torah - Slavita, 1827 — $3,000 - $4,000
Lot 47: Seder Tikkun Leil Shavu'ot and Hoshana Rabba – Zhitomir, circa 1860 – a Nice Copy — $800 - $1,200
Lot 48: Avodat Yisrael by the Maggid of Kozhnitz – Zhitomir, 1858 — $500 - $1,200
Lot 49: Seah Solet / Marpeh La'Nefesh – Zhitomir 1858 — $400 - $800
Lot 50: Sefer Hafla'ah – Sudilkov, 1833 – Published by Rabbi Chanina Lipa Shapira of Slavita — $600 - $1,000
Lot 51: Zohar – Sulzbach, 1684 – a Large, Impressive Volume — $700 - $1,000
Lot 52: Oneg Shabbat – Lvov, 1793 – First Edition – by Rabbi Aharon Ha'Cohen of Opatow, — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 53: Likutim Yekarim – First Edition of Part of the Composition "Yosher Divrei Emet" – [Poland, circa 1800] — $500 - $1,500
Lot 54: Noam Elimelech – Polonne, 1814 — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 55: Yad Ha'Melech – Venice, 1586 – the Copy of Rabbi Moshe Yerucham Morgenstern, the Son of the Kotzker Rebbe — $700 - $1,500
Lot 56: Machshevet Moshe – Signature of the Rebbe of Yezhov Rabbi Ya'akov Landau – Signatures of the Author's Son, — $500 - $1,000
Lot 57: Mikdash Melech (Kabbala) – Signature and Stamps of the Rebbe Rabbi Elimelech Shapira of Grodzinsk and His Sons: the — $3,500 - $4,500
Lot 58: Stamp of Rabbi Leibush Rokeach of Belz Av Beit Din of Magrov / Stamps of the Rebbes of Munkatch the 'Darkei Teshuvah' — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 59: Tikunei Zohar – Lemberg, 1862 – the Copy of the Rebbe of Mykolaiv, — $600 - $1,000
Lot 60: Eliya Mizrachi – Handwritten Glosses by Rabbi Moshe of Ziditchov – Signatures of His Father-in-Law Rabbi Eliyahu of — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 61: Torat Chaim by the Rebbe Rabbi Chaim of Kosov – with a Dedication by the Publisher the Rebbe Rabbi Mordechai of — $500 - $1,500
Lot 62: Ma'oran shel Yisrael – by the Rebbe of Alexander author of "Yismach Yisrael" – Dedication by His Nephew the Rebbe of — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 63: Machzor for the Prayer Leader according to the Custom of Rome – Vowelized Script – with Kavanot Ha'Ari – Carmagnola — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 64: Important Discovery: the Piyyut "Ha'Me'urah" – Manuscript from the Period of the Rishonim of an Unknown Piyyut — $800 - $1,200
Lot 65: Drush for a Marriage and Commentaries on Bereshit – Turkey, the 17th Century — $800 - $1,200
Lot 66: Collection of Early, rare manuscripts – the 14th – 17th Centuries — $800 - $1,200
Lot 67: Booklet of Sermons on the Haftarot – Author's Autograph – Germany [Mainz?], 1722 — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 70: Urim Ve'Tumim (Goralot) – Manuscript with an Early, Unknown Historical Preface — $500 - $1,000
Lot 68: הרה"ק בעל "יושר דברי אמת" - דף שלם בכתב יד קודשו! — $5,000 - $10,000
Lot 71: Halachic Ruling Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Eliyahu Ha'Tzarfati Av Beit Din and Ram of Fes, — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 72: Halachic Responsa Handwritten by Rabbi Akiva Eiger – Includes Passages that have Never been Printed — $18,000 - $24,000
Lot 73: Manuscript by Rabbi Ya'akov of Lissa Author of the 'Netivot' – Novellae on the Ketubut Tractate — $3,500 - $5,000
Lot 74: Manuscript by Rabbi Avraham the Son of the Vilna Gaon – Commentary on the Prayer/Manuscript by His Son — $3,000 - $5,000
Lot 76: Torah Novellae Handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Zvi Schück (the Rashban) Av Beit Din of Karcag — $500 - $1,000
Lot 77: Handwritten Eulogy for the Rebbetzen Lipsha, — $500 - $1,000
Lot 78: Torah Novellae Handwritten by Rabbi Shlomo Cohen Av Beit Din of Zülz — $1,500 - $2,500
Lot 79: Novellae by the "Divrei Chaim" – an Early, Important Copying, Most Likely of the Original Manuscript, — $500 - $1,000
Lot 80: Lessons and Discourse by Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin – Notebooks Handwritten by His Disciples – Have not been Printed — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 82: Manuscript by Rabbi Yehuda Fetayah –Variations between the Manuscript and the Printed Version — $1,200 - $1,800
Lot 83: Torah Novellae Handwritten by the Rebbe Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ha'Levi Ashlag "Ba'al Ha'Sulam" — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 84: Volume of Lessons Handwritten by Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna the Head of the 'Hebron' Yeshiva – 1940 — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 86: "Avi Ezri" Novellae Handwritten by the Author Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Shach — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 87: Letter of Greeting and Semicha (Rabbinical Ordination) Handwritten and Signed by the "Neta Sorek" Rabbi Sheraga Zvi — $1,500 - $3,000
Lot 88: Long Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Rabbi Yehoshua Aharon Zvi Weinberger Av Beit Din of Margarethen / a Long — $4,000 - $6,000
Lot 89: Letter by the Author of "Ma'asai La'Melech" Rabbi Yeshaya Zilberstein to Rabbi Zussman Dayan of the Community of — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 90: Documents Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Elyakim Getz Ha'Cohen Schwerin Av Beit Din of Baja, Hungary – the 1740's — $800 - $1,500
Lot 91: Very Long Approbation for the Book "Mateh Naftali" – Handwritten by Rabbi Shimon Deutsch the Founder of Kollel Ungarin — $500 - $1,200
Lot 92: Interesting Letter by Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Reich Av Beit Din of Boskowitz — $400 - $800
Lot 93: Large, Important Archive of Letters by the Rabbis of Hungary – the 1740's – 1840's — $1,200 - $2,000
Lot 94: Important Certificate by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Levin Av Beit Din of Berlin and the Dayanim Rabbi Meir Weill and Rabbi — $5,000 - $7,000
Lot 95: A Certificate by the Leaders of the Volozhin Community on the Matter of the Av beit Din Rabbi Yitzchak of Volozhin – — $800 - $1,200
Lot 96: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Königsberger Av Beit Din of Steinmaner, — $400 - $800
Lot 97: Religious Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Moshe Ber Shehn of Vienna, — $400 - $800
Lot 98: Letters by the Most Prominent Rabbis in Support of Taharat Ha'Mishpacha (Purity of the Family) – Bibliographically — $500 - $1,000
Lot 99: Document of Delivering a Gett (Divorce Ceritifcate) – Signatures of Three Dayanim of Badatz London – 1881 — $400 - $800
Lot 101: Letter by Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman – the USA, 1939 — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 102: Letter by the 'Chafetz Chaim' with His Handwritten Signature – Radun, 1931 — $10,000 - $12,000
Lot 103: Letter by Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Tarshish – 1925 — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 104: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Aharon Kotler "About Our Holy Yeshiva and the Hundreds of Learners of the Torah" — $1,200 - $2,000
Lot 105: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Avraham Dobver Kahana Shapira – Kovno, 1938 — $800 - $1,200
Lot 106: Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin – Important Document by the Managers of the Yeshiva with a Touching Description of the Study — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 107: Letters by Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprong and Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Herschberg – Japan, 1941 — $500 - $1,000
Lot 108: Early Letter by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Ha'Levi Herzog and His Father-in-Law Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Hillman – London, 1926 — $800 - $1,200
Lot 109: Early Letter handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin Av Beit Din of Luck – 1935 – Extremely Rare — $600 - $800
Lot 110: Religious Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Moshe Landinsky the Head of the Radun Yeshiva – Radun, 1932 — $1,000 - $1,800
Lot 111: A Long Religious Letter Handwritten and Signed by the 'Sridei Esh' – 1936 — $500 - $800
Lot 112: Early Certificate from Jerusalem, 1925 – Signatures of the Rabbis of the Town — $800 - $1,500
Lot 113: Manuscript by Rabbi Meir Auerbach, the First Ashkenazic Rabbi of Jerusalem, — $800 - $1,000
Lot 114: Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Ridbaz Av Beit Din of Safed — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 115: Emissary Certificate of Chacham Bashi Rabbi Chaim Elchadif of Tiberius – Signatures of Dozens of Rabbis of the City – — $3,000 - $4,000
Lot 116: Religious Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Chazon Ish – about "The Most Painful Question in Our Holy Land": The — $10,000 - $15,000
Lot 117: Religious Letters by the Rabbis of the Land of Israel to Rabbi Gershon Lapidot — $400 - $800
Lot 118: Collection of Dozens of Letters by Rabbis — $500 - $1,000
Lot 119: Rare Collection of Letters by the Rabbis of the Land of Israel – 1890 and Onwards — $2,500 - $5,000
Lot 120: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Eliyahu Doshnitzer – [1942] — $500 - $1,500
Lot 121: Two Letters by Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandel – 1952 — $800 - $1,200
Lot 122: The First Public Letter of Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman in His Youth – Against the Enlistment of Girls – 1953 — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 123: Six Halachic Responsa by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky — $500 - $1,000
Lot 124: Very Long Halachic Responsum Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Ovadya Yosef — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 125: Notebook of the 'Porat Yosef' Yeshiva with the Handwriting and Signature of Rabbi Ovadya Yosef – 1956 – a Special, — $500 - $1,000
Lot 126: Fourteen Pages with names to Pray for, handwritten by the Rebbetzen Bat Sheva Kanievsky — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 127: Historical Proclamation by Rabbi Sghmuel Salant, — $800 - $1,200
Lot 128: The Hassidic Synagogue 'Tiferet Yisrael' of the Old City of Jerusalem – Three Special Important Items – Including an — $1,500 - $2,000
Lot 129: "My Wife Sheindel has Converted to the Religion of Ishmael" – a Special Document about the Rescue of a Jewess from the — $600 - $1,200
Lot 130: The Only Copy in the World of the Prayer that was Said in Jerusalem "For Our Miserable Brother Members of the Diaspora — $600 - $800
Lot 131: Collection of Rare Payment Methods – the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem – Signatures of the Rabbis of Jerusalem — $500 - $1,000
Lot 132: Jerusalemite Account Book with Interesting Inscriptions – Contains a List of the Payments and Debts of the Geniuses of — $400 - $800
Lot 133: The Original Document against Non-Religious Supervision over the Torah Institutions of Jerusalem – [1945] — $500 - $1,000
Lot 134: The First Halachic Question that the Rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Shmuel Salant, was Asked When He Came to Jerusalem (! — $500 - $1,500
Lot 135: Letter by Rabbi Yitzchal Leib Grossberg Author of "Shai La'Morah" – to Rabbi Shmuel Salant – 1881 — $400 - $800
Lot 136: Long Letter by the Rabbis of Safed Headed by Av Beit Din Rabbi Raphael Zilberman to Rabbi Shmuel Salant – 1895 — $400 - $800
Lot 137: Letter handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Rif Av Beit Din of Zager to Rabbi Shmuel Salant – 1896 – Rare — $400 - $800
Lot 138: A Letter Sent to the Salant Family, after the Death of Their Father Rabbi Shmuel Salant, — $400 - $800
Lot 139: Historical Document Handwritten by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld – Agreement to the Reconciliation between Him and — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 140: Important Letters by the Leaders of Agudat Yisrael in the Land of Israel and Avroad to Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld – — $800 - $1,500
Lot 141: Historical Letter by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Breuer Av beit Din of Frankfurt to Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld – 1913 – An — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 143: The "Or Chadash" Yeshiva – a Rare Important Letter Signed by the Founders the Heads of the Yeshiva, — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 144: Important Letter by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld about Redeeming the Beit Midrash and Yeshiva of the "Or Ha'Chaim" in — $800 - $1,500
Lot 145: Letter by Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg to Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld – Montreal, 1926 – Extremely Rare — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 146: Letter by Rabbi Yisef Chaim Sonnenfeld and Rabbi Eliyahu Klatzkin – about the Diskin Orphanage – Jerusalem, 1928 — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 147: Two Certificates of a Student of the Ridbaz Yeshiva of Safed, Signed by the Rabbis of Safed and Chief Rabbi, — $400 - $800
Lot 148: Long Halachic Responsum by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha'Cohen Kook to Rabbi Gershon Lapidot – 1933 — $400 - $800
Lot 150: Certificate Handwritten and Signed by the Rebbe Rabbi Yechezkel Panet Author of 'Mareh Yechezkel' – 1834 — $14,000 - $18,000
Lot 151: Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Rebbe Rabbi Ya'akov Elimelech Panet Av Beit Din of Dej — $700 - $1,200
Lot 152: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Halberstam Av Beit Din of Fristik – 1922 — $2,000 - $3,000
Lot 153: Long Halachic Letter by One of the Rabbis of Stropkov – to the Author of the "Yad Yosef" — $500 - $1,500
Lot 154: Religious Letter of Greeting by Rabbi Mordechai Rokeach of Belz on Behalf of His Brother the Rebbe Rabbi Aharon of — $2,500 - $3,500
Lot 155: The Ketubah of a Hassidic Bride and Groom, — $3,000 - $4,000
Lot 156: Letter by the Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael of Chortkov, Hand-Signed by Him – Vienna, 1929 — $2,000 - $4,000
Lot 157: Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Rebbe of Amshinov and His Mother – 1924 — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 158: Extremely Rare Letter of Greeting by the Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Wertheim of Bender – 1939 — $500 - $1,000
Lot 159: Letter by the Rebbetzen Shifra the Wife of the Rebbe Rabbi Eliezer of Oświęcim (the Son-in-Law of the 'Divrei Chaim' — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 160: Letter by the Rebbetzen Chana Golda Rosenfeld the Daughter of Rabbi Shalom (the Second) of Kamionka – Extremely Rare – — $1,000 - $2,000
Lot 161: A Letter of Recommendation Handwritten and Signed by the Rebbe of Sochatchov Rabbi David Borenstein - Tomaszów 1925 — $1,000 - $1,500
Lot 162: Letter by the Rebbe Rabbi Sinai Halberstam who Perished in the Holocaust – Three Lines Handwritten and Signed by Him — $3,500 - $5,000