Bidspirit auctions | King David Auctions Auction Nov 22, 2018

King David Auctions, Nov 22, 2018. 284 lots, estimates 150 - 85000 $.

Lots in this catalog (284)

• Lot 1: Special, Ancient Amulet for Protecting the Baby, with a Special Prayer – Europe, the 18th Century — $300 - $500
• Lot 2: Megillat Ester (Esther Scroll) on Parchment, with an Impressive, Carved Handle – Italy, the 19thCentury — $1,000 - $1,200
• Lot 3: Special Historical Remnant from the Time of the Rishonim! — $10,000 - $20,000
• Lot 4: Two Leaves of the "Chidushei Tzarfat" Manuscript - the Late 15th Century — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 6: Account Book, Most Likely of a Shadar (Emmissary of the Rabbis), the Late 17th Century-Early 18th Century [?], — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 5: Manuscript – "Alufim Sha'ananim" – Piyyut for a Brit Milah – [the 17th Century] — $400 - $500
• Lot 7: The Chatam Sofer – Two Pages Handwritten – Novellae on Sefer Shemot — $25,000 - $35,000
• Lot 8: Long Halachic Responsum Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Yeshaya Zilberstein Author of 'Ma'asay Le'Melech' — $2,500 - $4,000
• Lot 9: Collection of Ancient Manuscripts – Europe, Yemen – the 18th Century and Onwards — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 14: Rare and Important Manuscripts: a Manuscript "the Way of the Torah in the Telz Yeshiva" Handwritten by Rabbi Eliyahu — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 15: "Yisrael Meir Ha'Cohen" – The Holy Signature of the Chafetz Chaim – a Special, Unique Item — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 20: Shimru Mishpat – the Copy of the Author Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger with His Handwritten Glosses – Jerusalem, — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 12: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein – Ten Leaves handwritten by Him, Containing One long, Complete Halachic Responsum, — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 22: Chok Le'Yisrael, Bereshit – Signature of the Author of 'Kaf Ha'Chaim' with Handwritten Glosses by Him — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 13: Talmud and Important Sermons by Rabbi Shneur David Walt – Kelm/Telz, the 1930's — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 18: Yalkut Shimoni (Venice, 1566?) – Important Signatures — $200 - $300
• Lot 24: Rare Books with Stamps of Rabbi Moshe Finkel — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 21: Zion Be'Mishpat – Jerusalem, 1912 – Signature of the Author Rabbi Mordechai Luria — $200 - $300
• Lot 16: Eliyah Mizrachi – Venice, [1545] – Hebrew Map of the Land Israel – Ancient Inscriptions and Signatures — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 11: Important Halachic Responsa Handwritten by the Author of 'Levushei Mordechai" Rabbi Mordechai Leib Winkler, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 17: The Rivash Responsa Constantinople 1546 – First Edition – Signatures and Glosses — $800 - $1,200
• Lot 10: Handwritten Booklet – Special Prayers of the People who Came to Pray beside the Gravestone of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 19: Chayei Adam – Dozens of Halachic Glosses handwritten by Rabbi Simhca Ha'Levi Soloveitchik, — $1,500 - $3,000
• Lot 23: Chochmat Adam – the Copy of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, the Head of the Slabodka Yeshiva, — $400 - $600
• Lot 28: Zohar (Livorno 1851) with Important Glosses Handwritten by the Kabbalist Rabbi Raphael Aharon Ferrara, — $600 - $800
• Lot 26: Glosses handwritten by Rabbi Chaim Yuda Segal Deutsch on the Book 'Lev Aryeh' – Lemberg, 1898 — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 25: Maharam Shick – the Copy of rabbi Yehuda Leib Greenwald Av Beit Din of Satmar — $500 - $800
• Lot 27: Handwritten Dedication by the "Matir Agunot" Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Roller – Five of His Rare and Special Compositions — $400 - $600
• Lot 30: She'ilat Ya'akov – the Personal Copy of the Author Rabbi Ya'akov Segal Prager, — $200 - $300
• Lot 29: The Book of Psalms of Rabbi Yehoshua Falik Ze'ev Wolfson Author of "Torat Ha'Adam" — $500 - $700
• Lot 45: Passover Haggadah, Esther Scroll and a Photograph of Dressed Up Children – Vienna, the 1930's – Unique Items — $300 - $500
• Lot 39: The First Book of the Ari's Doctrine according to Rabbi Chaim Vital: 'Sefer Ha'Kavanot' – First, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 36: Three Miniatures – Sefirat Ha'Omer with Kabbalistic Kavanot – Venice, the 18th Century – Extremely Rare Editions — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 32: Tur Orach Chaim – Pressburg, 1846 – Dozens of Scholarly Glosses — $400 - $500
• Lot 40: Sefer Naftali [Kabbala] – Krakow, [1593] – with the Rare Leaf of the Sketch of the Ten Sefirot — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 41: Mayim Rabim – the Rare Book by the Brothers Rabbi Nissan and Rabbi Yosef Gertenberg – 1883 — $200 - $300
• Lot 42: "The Seventeenth of Kislev" Booklet – Memories from the Alter of Novardok – the Only Copy in the World? — $150 - $300
• Lot 37: Miniature, Ancient Machzor and Siddur – with the Passover Haggadah — $200 - $300
• Lot 38: The First, Rare Edition of "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch" – [1864] – the Halacha Book with Hundreds of Editions! — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 33: Berachot Tractate and Seder Zera'im – [Frankfurt am Mein, — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 43: Rabbi Eliyahu Elizer Dessler Author of 'Michtav Me'Eliyahu' – Collection of Rare Stencil Editions of Lessons — $500 - $700
• Lot 31: The Shulchan Aruch, — $300 - $500
• Lot 34: Collection of Books with Stamps of the Geniuses of Israel — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 35: Novellae Handwritten by The Steipler on His Personal Copy of His Book 'Kehilot Ya'akov" — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 44: Impressive Passover Haggadah in Hebrew-Teitch – Amsterdam, — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 46: Passover Haggadah according to the Karaite Custom – Egypt [!], [1903] – Extremely Rare! — $300 - $500
• Lot 47: The Maxwell Coffee Haggadah – New York, 1940 – Extremely Rare Edition – Does not Appear in the National Library — $400 - $500
• Lot 48: The Custom of "Chalakeh" on Lag Ba'Omer in Meron – an Illustrated Publication in Golden Ink, — $400 - $500
• Lot 49: Tehillim (the Book of Psalms) with Ma'amadot – Slavita, 1824 – Extremely Rare! Has Never been Seen in Auctions! — $5,000 - $10,000
• Lot 50: Ha'Maggid – Slavita, 1825 – Unknown Edition – Printed by the Rebbe Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Shapira of Slavita — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 51: Chamisha Chumshei Torah – Kopust, [1825] – Special, Unknown Edition – the Printing Press of Rabbi Yehuda Yaffe — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 52: Hassidic Chumash, with the Sabbath Prayers – Large Volume – Zhitomir [1854] – Rare, Important Edition — $600 - $1,200
• Lot 53: Siddur Ha'Ari ("Rabbi Kapil's Siddur") – Slavita, — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 54: Four rare Books Bound Together – Zhitomir, Jerusalem and Czernowitz Printing Presses — $600 - $800
• Lot 62: Chidushei Ha'Rim on Choshen Mishpat – the Rare Stamps of the Publisher Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Justman, — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 63: Tal Chaim Ve'Ha'Beracha – Gift of the Rebbe of Munkatch Author of 'Darkei Teshuvah' – Three Handwritten Scholarly — $1,000 - $3,000
• Lot 64: Religious Ruling (Takanah) of Rabbi Zvi Elimelech of Dynów Author of 'Bnei Yissachar' – a Large, — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 61: Midrash Rabba – the Copy of Rabbi Nechemya Alter of Gur — $500 - $800
• Lot 59: Atzei Chaim – Siget, [1927] – First Edition — $300 - $500
• Lot 67: Letter handwritten and Signed by the Rebbe of Slonim Rabbi Mordechai Chaim Kastelnitz — $400 - $600
• Lot 55: Collection of Title Pages of Books that were Printed in Zhitomir and Slavita — $300 - $500
• Lot 57: Ktonet Passim /Likutei Maharil – First Editions – Lvov, 1866 — $500 - $700
• Lot 58: Divrei Chaim on the Torah and the Talmud – First Edition — $500 - $700
• Lot 56: Siddur Rabbi Asher Margaliyot, the Disciple of the Ba'al Shem Tov – Sephard Version – Lvov, — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 66: Religious Letter handwritten by the Rebbe of Davyd-Haradok, Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Ginzburg – Extremely Rare — $500 - $800
• Lot 60: Rare: Signature and Stamp of the Rebbe of Alexander Rabbi Bezalel Yair Danziger — $5,000 - $9,000
• Lot 65: Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Rebbes Rabbi Chaneh Halberstam of Kołaczyce and His Brother Rabbi Chaim Baruch — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 68: Reports and Letters by Shadarim (Emissaries of the Rabbis), — $1,200 - $2,000
• Lot 69: Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Rebbe of erlou to Pray for Him, — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 71: Collection of Letters and Invitations by Rebbes — $300 - $500
• Lot 72: Invitation to the Wedding of the Rebbe of Skvira — $400 - $600
• Lot 73: Certificate Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Chaim Yisrael ShalomYekutiel Rabinowitz Av Beit Din of Szydłowiec — $800 - $1,200
• Lot 70: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Shimon Yisrael Posen Av Beit Din of Sopron — $600 - $800
• Lot 74: The Stroi (Straw) on which the Rebbe Rabbi Aharon of Belz Stood on Yom Kippur - Segulah for Protection — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 84: Rare! A 100 Dollar Banknote Handed Out by the Lubavitcher Rebbe — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 77: Document Signed by the Rebbe of Gur, Author of "Lev Simcha" — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 81: Likutei Be'urim – First Edition – Warsaw, [1868] — $300 - $500
• Lot 85: Two Banknotes of 1 Dollar Handed Out by the Lubavitcher Rebbe — $500 - $770
• Lot 80: Levush Ateret Zahav – Bardichev, 1819 – the Copy of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Rivlin, the Leading Hassid of the Alter Rebbe, — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 78: Two Early Fascinating Letters by the "Sabba" Rabbi Yisrael Dov Odesser – The Hospital of Safed, 1927 — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 75: The Inside of the Shtreimel of the Rebbe of Toldot Aharon — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 79: The "Tanya" which was Printed during the Lifetime of Its Author, the Alter Rebbe – Zholkva, — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 82: Compositions by the Rebbes of Chabad – First Editions – Warsaw, [1871] — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 76: 10 Dollar Banknote Given by the Rebbe of Satmar — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 83: Chabad Hassidism – Important Letters — $1,000 - $1,200
• Lot 86: 1 Dollar Banknote Handed Out by the Lubavitcher Rebbe — $300 - $500
• Lot 88: 5 Cent Coin Handed Out by the Lubavitcher Rebbe — $300 - $400
• Lot 89: 10 Cent Coin Handed Out by the Lubavitcher Rebbe — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 87: Extremely Rare! A Lira Banknote Handed Out by the Lubavitcher Rebbe — $1,200 - $1,500
• Lot 91: Illustrated Certificates of Donation to Keren Ha'Torah – with (Printed) signatures of the 'Imrei Emet' and the Rebbe — $400 - $600
• Lot 90: 25 Cent Coin Handed Out by the Lubavitcher Rebbe — $800 - $1,200
• Lot 92: Kovetz Agudat Yisrael – 1923 – a Review of the Movement's Activities since Its Establishment until Its Congress – — $200 - $300
• Lot 95: Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Rogatchover – Dvinsk, [1930] — $2,000 - $3,500
• Lot 94: The Earliest Letter of the Leader of the Mussar Movement, — $3,000 - $6,000
• Lot 93: Agudat Yisrael during the Establishment of the State, the War of Independence and the First Years of the State — $300 - $400
• Lot 98: Three Letters Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Steinman — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 96: Two Early Letters by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Ha'Levi Herzog, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland, — $500 - $700
• Lot 97: Letter of Greeting Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach — $700 - $1,500
• Lot 99: Letter by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky about Using Electricity on Sabbath — $500 - $800
• Lot 100: Collection of Dozens of Letters by Rabbis and Tzaddikim — $200 - $300
• Lot 102: Letter by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha'Cohen Kook about a Prayer Leader in a Prison — $300 - $400
• Lot 101: Letter by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha'Cohen Kook on behalf of e Jewish Policeman – Special — $400 - $600
• Lot 103: Halachic Responsum Handwritten and Signed by the Chazon Ish — $8,000 - $12,000
• Lot 105: Kvitle of the 'Chazon Ish' – Names of Members of "Brit Ha'Kana'im" (Including Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu) — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 104: Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Shemarya Yosef kerlitz, the Father of the Chazon Ish, to His Sons – [1914] — $700 - $1,000
• Lot 106: Handwritten Illustration by the Chazon Ish / Names for Prayer handwritten by Him — $500 - $700
• Lot 109: Two Long Touching letters handwritten by Rabbi Aryeh Levin — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 108: The Official Certificate Changing the Last name of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv from "Popka" to "Elyashiv" – 1932 — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 107: Letter by Rabbi Yitzchak Elyashuv, the Son of the Author of the 'Leshem', to His Brother-in-Law Rabbi Avraham Elyashuv, — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 111: The Personal Appointment Calendar of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 110: Letter by the Steipler to Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv – Condolences for the Death of His Father-in_law Rabbi Aryeh — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 112: Letter by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv Condemning the Smoking of Cigarettes — $500 - $800
• Lot 113: Letter of Recommendation Handwritten by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv about a Publishing a New Edition of Maimonides' — $300 - $400
• Lot 115: Important Essays Handwritten by the Geniuses of Jerusalem, — $700 - $1,000
• Lot 114: Collection of Document of the Chief Rabbinate, Signed by Rabbo Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and the Most Prominent Dayanim — $500 - $800
• Lot 116: Receipts of the Rebbetzen of Salant and the Rebbetzen Bardeki given for their Membership in the "Aid Society" of the — $300 - $400
• Lot 117: An Archive of Interesting Letters and Important Documents of the Rabbis of the Babad family of Romania — $500 - $700
• Lot 118: The Archive of the rabbis of the Prager Family – Torah Novellae and Letters — $500 - $700
• Lot 119: Collection of Rare and Important Documents from the First Years of the Haredi Community of Jerusalem – Some of them — $800 - $1,200
• Lot 120: Large, Important Archive of the Jewish Community of Lvov, — $500 - $600
• Lot 121: Historical Documents from the Archive of Rabbi Pinchas leibush Weber of Jerusalem, — $300 - $500
• Lot 124: An Especially Sharp Pasquil against Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld – the Shechita Polemic of Jerusalem – the 1890's — $300 - $500
• Lot 122: The Personal Archive of Rabbi Meir Cohen, — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 123: The Establishment of the Military Chief Rabbinate – a Unique Collection containing more than 100 Lovely Photographs 0 — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 125: Polemic Proclamations of Ha'Edah Ha'Charedit — $200 - $300
• Lot 126: The Establishment of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem under the Leadership of the Ridbaz – a Special Composition – New York, — $300 - $400
• Lot 127: Letter of Semicha (Rabbinical Ordination) and a Letter of "Warning by the Rabbis of Germany, — $500 - $700
• Lot 128: Polemic of the Rabbinate of Vilnius, — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 129: Polemic: Letter against Agudat Yisrael by the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch — $500 - $700
• Lot 132: Proclamation by Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman against Participation in the Elections for the 'Va'ad Leumi' [National — $400 - $600
• Lot 133: Collection of Booklets and Printed Leaves – Public Controversies – 1870 and Onward – Including Bibliographically — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 131: Rare Polemic Booklets by the Rebbe of Munkatch – Jerusalem, 1929/1931 — $400 - $600
• Lot 130: The Rebbe of Munkatch against Agudat Yisrael and the Rebbe of Gur – a Rare Polemic Booklet – 1932 — $400 - $500
• Lot 134: Kol Ha'Shofar – a Polemic Booklet against Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha'Cohen Kook, — $300 - $400
• Lot 136: An Original, One of a Kind, Photograph of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Ha'Cohen Kook – Holding a Gavel – [the 1920's] — $400 - $700
• Lot 135: Large, Original, Rare and Unknown Photograph of the Scholars of Baghdad – [circa 1905] — $500 - $600
• Lot 137: Series of Original Photographs from the Wedding of Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Ha'Cohen, Dressed in the Uniform of the IDF, — $500 - $700
• Lot 138: A Very Large Collection of Important Photographs of Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Ha'Cohen – a Member of the Underground — $200 - $300
• Lot 139: Dozens of Photographs from the Wedding of Rabbi She'ar Yashuv Ha'Cohen, — $200 - $400
• Lot 140: Extremely Rare Items from the Personal Archive of the First Arab Propagandist, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 141: Rare Historical Booklet for the Benefit of the Jews of Germany – by the American Secretary of the Interior who Led the — $400 - $600
• Lot 142: Colorful Poster – the Collapse of the Nazi Rule – First of May — $300 - $400
• Lot 143: A Letter by a Jew of Warsaw, the Eve of the Holocaust – "The World has been Given to Evil People" — $400 - $600
• Lot 144: A Remnant from a Community that has Disappeared – a Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Last Rabbi of the Jewish — $300 - $500
• Lot 145: The Only Remnant from a Community that was Destroyed during the Holocaust — $500 - $1,000
• Lot 146: Letters from an Extinct Town– 5 Letters from the Town and Ghetto of Salgótarján, — $1,000 - $3,000
• Lot 147: 8 Letters from Different Death and Concentration Camps – Handwritten Inscriptions by Prisoners, Stamps, Rare Items — $650 - $850
• Lot 148: Calling to Come and Pray beside Rachel's Tomb "for the Fate of Our Brothers Who are Daily led to Their Terrible Death" — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 149: Prayer and Lamentation for the Those who Perished in the Holocaust at the 'Churvah' Synagogue – Stencil Printing – — $300 - $500
• Lot 150: A Version of a Heart-Moving Prayer that was Added to the Tefilat Ne'ilah of Yom Kippur during the Terrible War in — $200 - $500