Bidspirit auctions | Winner'S Auction Mar 10, 2024

Winner'S, Mar 10, 2024. 224 lots, estimates 300 - 100000 $.

Winner'S - Early Prints, Chassidut, Belongings of Tzaddikim, Amulets, Segula Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical letters

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Lots in this catalog (224)

• Lot 124: Important Rescue Letter from the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky. Vilna, 1934; Mention of the Lubavitcher Rebbe — $1,800 - $2,000
• Lot 202: Handwritten Letter by the Wonder-Worker the Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael Shapira of Bluzhov — $1,300 - $1,500
• Lot 184: Rare: Letter with Blessings in Yiddish Handwritten by the Admo"r of Gur, Author of Pnei Menachem, — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 96: Written and Signed in my Presence - Important Halachic Letter Handwritten by Leading 18th-Century Italian Sages — $1,200 - $1,500
• Lot 79: Copy of Shu"t Maharasha"ch that Previously Belonged to the Beit Ephraim. First Edition. Hand-Illustrated Title Pages. — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 40: Likkutei HaPardes, Venice, 1519. First Edition. Rare — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 59: Machzor for the Whole Year. Venice, 1772. Two Volumes. Magnificent Leather and Silver Bindings — $5,000 - $6,000
• Lot 69: Panim Yafot. Ostroh. Four Volumes from the First Edition — $20,000 - $25,000
• Lot 180: Letter from the Sacred Gaon Rabbi Moshe David Ashkenazi of Tolcsva, Father-in-Law of the Yitev Lev of Sighet, — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 157: Rare Certificate from the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Ashkenazi, Av Beit Din of Tismenitz [Uncle of the Yitev Lev of Sighet] — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 46: Thesouro dos Dinim. Menasseh ben Israel. Five Parts. Especially Rare — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 54: Toaliyot HaRalba"g Riva Di Trento, 1560. First Edition — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 112: Extraordinarily Important Manuscript - Novellae from Furth Gedolim, 1780s — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 55: Tana"ch, Genoa, Kaffa Ilan Press, 1618 — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 56: Amudei Shlomo. Maharsha"l. Basel, 1600. First Edition — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 18: Shem HaGedoliom by the Chid"a. Two Parts Printed by the Chid"a in his Lifetime. Wide Margins — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 178: Rare and Special: Letter of Approbation for the Appointment of a Rabbi, — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 9: Kabbalistic Amulet. Gold. Persia, 19th Century — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 204: Extremely Rare! 'Vaseh Zaken' Socks of Rabbi Yankeleh of Pshevorsk [2 pairs] — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 63: Especially Rare: Chumash with Prayers According to the Ar"i's Text. Vilna, 1859 — $800 - $1,200
• Lot 64: Only Copy in the World? Small-Format Siddur. Sulzbach, 1756 — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 66: Siddur Derech Chayim with Supplements by Rabbi Shlomo Gantzfried. First Edition. — $800 - $1,200
• Lot 65: Museum Item: Machzor for the Shaliach Tzibbur from the Pinchas Synagogue in Prague — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 68: Volume of Siddurei Rabbi Ya'akov Emden - Ya'avetz, with the Rare Compilation — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 34: Polemic. Obituary for the Author of Chafetz Chaim. Historic. Only One in the World (?) — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 83: Shu"t Binyamin Ze'ev. Venice, 1538. Handwritten Glosses by the Author — $1,600 - $1,800
• Lot 206: "Dem Rabbin's ID" - The Yeshuot Moshe of Vizhnitz's ID Papers — $7,000 - $8,000
• Lot 123: Handwritten Letter from Rabbi Yosef Rosen - the Rogochover - Controversy around the Selection of a Rabbi in Poland — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 125: Letter from Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. 1886 — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 6: Birkat Erusin and Birkat HaMazon on Parchment. Germany, 18th-19th Century — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 75: Chessed L'Avraham. Slavuta, 1794, Among the first Sefarim Printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira in Slavuta — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 72: Maggid Devarav L'Ya'akov. Lvov, 1792 — $800 - $1,200
• Lot 82: Parashat Derachim. Venice, 1743. Signature and Dozens of Glosses by Rabbi Mordechai Michael Jaffe — $1,800 - $2,000
• Lot 13: Silver Amulet. Persia, 19th Century — $500 - $600
• Lot 41: Shulchan Aruch, Four Parts. Hanau, 1627-1628; First Edition of the Shulchan Aruch Printed in Germany — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 103: Large Collection of Passages in Manuscript from North Africa, Yemen, etc. Cent. 17-19th — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 93: Matzot Shmurim — $5,000 - $8,000
• Lot 198: Success in Business! Important Blessing from the Admo"r Rabbi Shlomo of Bobov — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 215: Portrait. The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, the "Chazon Ish." By Timur Tsaku b. 1972 — $15,000 - $20,000
• Lot 188: Important Content: Letter from the Admo"r of Alexander to the Posek HaDor, the Iggerot Moshe — $400 - $500
• Lot 221: Collection of [37] Old Judaica Book Catalogs — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 80: Large Collection of [29] Important Sefarim with Handwritten Glosses and Comments — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 97: Sefer Aruch HaKadmon with Many Differences from the Printed Edition. Yemen, C. 16th-17th Century — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 31: Pair of Booklets from Ferrera Regulations. 1734, 1757 and more. Rare — $1,200 - $1,400
• Lot 87: Da'at Zekeinim MiBa'alei HaTosafot. Livorno, 1783. Handwritten Gloss by Rabbi Daniel Tirani of Italy — $700 - $800
• Lot 195: Unlike Anything Ever Seen: Concealed Torot and Blessings Handwritten on the Eve of Yom Kippur by the Yeshuot Moshe of — $700 - $1,000
• Lot 107: Historic Document. The Yis"a Brachah and the Tzaddik of Greditz — $500 - $700
• Lot 161: Emotional Letter from the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz to his Dear Friend on the Occasion of his Oldest Son's Wedding — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 120: I Shall Speak to him in a Dream. Autograph of Chiddushim by the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 143: Important Mussar Letter from the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Avigdor Miller. Especially Rare — $700 - $800
• Lot 135: Beautiful and Important Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Steipler. 1967 — $700 - $800
• Lot 129: "B'Tzar Lecha" - Original Historic Poster Signed by Edah Chareidit Rabbis. Jerusalem, 1951 — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 182: Historic: Invitation to the Admo"r of Skver's Wedding. New Square, 1958 — $600 - $700
• Lot 181: "So that the Children not Fall into the Hands of 'Free' Education" - Letter from Rabbi Eliezer Zusha of Skulen — $1,500 - $1,800
• Lot 147: Beautiful Letter of Approbation [Only One in the World?] Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, — $500 - $700
• Lot 74: Arba Turim. Slavuta, Moshe Shapira Press — $2,500 - $3,000
• Lot 141: Interesting Letter from Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth, Rabbi of Antwerp — $700 - $800
• Lot 173: Important Healing Letter Handwritten by the Beit Avraham of Slonim, about Anxiety — $800 - $1,200
• Lot 171: Concealed Affair: Unknown Letter Handwritten by the Yessod HaAvodah of Slonim — $2,500 - $3,000
• Lot 137: Important Lot: Pair of Letters Handwritten by the Sar HaTorah, the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, to Two Gedolei HaDor — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 183: Rare and Sacred: Blessings for Children, Life and Sustenance, Handwritten by the Beit Yisrael of Gur — $1,200 - $1,500
• Lot 172: Important Letter Handwritten by the Admo"r, the Divrei Shmuel of Slonim, to his Sacred Father — $3,000 - $3,500
• Lot 167: Sensational Discovery!! "Zeh Sefer Toldot Adam" - Unknown Chassidic Work by the Author of Arvei Nachal — $10,000 - $15,000
• Lot 110: Compilations of Chiddushim Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Wolk, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 111: Three Volumes by Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Klein of Berlin, Grandson of the Mahara"m Schick. Berlin, 1918 — $1,200 - $1,500
• Lot 127: Rare Historic Poster for a "Prayer Day" During the Holocaust Signed by Leaders of the Edah HaChareidit — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 132: Collection of [17] Wedding Certificates Signed by Edah Chareidit Rabbis — $700 - $800
• Lot 130: Special Collection: [12] Wedding Certificates Signed by Giants of the Previous Three Generations — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 164: Collection of 46 letters from Chief Rabbis of Israel, Municipal Rabbis and Settlement Rabbis, — $2,000 - $4,000
• Lot 165: Rare Collection: [17] Important Letters from Leading Rashei Yeshivahs of the Previous Generation — $1,000 - $2,000
• Lot 160: Huge Collection of Letters [33] from Gedolim in the United States, Canada and Europe — $1,500 - $3,000
• Lot 191: A Tzaddik Decrees: Group of [3] Letters with Blessings from Prominent Admo"rim of Ruzhin from the Previous Generation — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 131: Group of [7] Important Letters Handwritten by Leading Rabbis in Jerusalem. — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 193: Group of [4] Important Letters from the Admo"r of Seret-Vizhnitz (and his Brother), Most Regarding Semichah — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 174: Letter from the Admo"r, the Birkat Avraham of Slonim to his Son, Rabbi Zelig in the Land of Israel — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 108: Controversial Content: Letter from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef about Rabbi Goren and the Affair of "the Brother and Sister" — $700 - $800
• Lot 201: Letter with Handwritten Blessings from the Wonder-Worker, the Rebbe Rabbi Yisrael Shapira Bluzhov — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 138: Pair of Handwritten Letters from the Gaon Rabbi Yechiel Weinberg, Author of Sridei Esh — $600 - $700
• Lot 39: Sefer Ohr Hashem. Ferrara, 1555. Principles of Faith and Foundations of Religion by Rabbi Chasda'i Crescas. — $2,500 - $3,000
• Lot 42: Pnei Yitzchak. Apei Ravrevei and Apei Zutri on Shulchan Aruch. Kraków, 1591. Rare. Pedigree Copy — $2,000 - $2,200
• Lot 88: Ba'al HaNefesh. Berlin, 1762; Signature by the Gaon Rabbi Ya'akov Shemesh, the Chatam Sofer's Rabbi — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 53: Kol Bochim by the Sacred Rabbi Avraham Galante. Venice, 1589. First Edition — $700 - $800
• Lot 44: Mishnayot Seder Zeraim with the Ramba"m's Commentary. Constantinople, 1583 — $1,500 - $1,800
• Lot 37: Shu"t Mahariva"l. Rabbi Yosef ibn Lev. Part I. Salonika, c. 1588. First Edition — $5,000 - $7,000
• Lot 38: Shu"t Mahariva"l. Rabbi Yosef ibn Lev. Part II. Constantinople, 1561. First Edition. Especially Rare. Pedigree Copy — $4,000 - $5,000
• Lot 49: L'Kol Chefetz. Venice, 1552. Only Edition — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 36: Rare Fundamental Sefer. Chiddushei Maharsh"a. First Edition as Printed by the Author — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 50: Uncommon Sefer: Mahalach Shevilei HaDa'at. Venice, 1624 — $600 - $800
• Lot 60: Especially Rare Sefer: Orden [Prayers for Spanish Anusim]. Amsterdam, 1724 — $1,500 - $1,800
• Lot 52: Magen Avraham. Venice, 1603. Only Edition — $700 - $900
• Lot 30: Large Lot of Over 30 Booklets, Hebrew Literature in Arabic Lettering, most Printed in Sousse 1930-1950 — $1,200 - $1,500
• Lot 208: Noda BiYehudah. Copy Previously Owned by the Admo"r Rabbi Yechezkal of Ostrovtza with his Handwritten Torah Novellae — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 43: Me'or Einayim. Venice, 1574. Book Banned Immediately upon its Publication — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 48: Urim V'Tumim. Venice, 1603. First Edition — $700 - $800
• Lot 114: Torah Novellae Handwritten by the Gaon of his Generation, Rabbi David Oppenheim — $1,200 - $1,400
• Lot 71: Chassidut, First Edition: She'erit Yisrael by the Tzaddik of Vlednik. Segulah Sefer — $700 - $800
• Lot 210: Be'er Mayim Chayim - Copy that Previously Belonged to the First Admo"r of Stropkov, Rabbi Shalom Halberstam — $3,000 - $5,000
• Lot 207: Brit HaLevi - Kabbalistic Commentary on the Passover Haggadah (with Part of the Haggadah). — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 133: Historic Handwritten Letter from Rabbi Aharon Kotler to Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 222: Shalom Moskowitz ("Der Zeigermacher") - [4] Unique Works - Akeidat Yitzchak and Aharon Kohen Gadol — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 218: Shmuel Ben David - Color Embroidery - Rachel's Tomb — $3,000 - $4,000
• Lot 149: Corfu Etrog Controversy: Letter from Rabbi Ya'akov Lifschitz, Secretary of Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, — $700 - $800
• Lot 175: Important Letter about Shidduchim for his Son the Prodigy, — $1,000 - $1,200
• Lot 185: Important Letter from the Admo"r Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak of Skiernivitz to his Chassidim in the Land of Israel — $600 - $800
• Lot 179: Letter from the Sacred Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yosef Greenwald about the Inheritance from his Father, the Arugat HaBosem — $700 - $800
• Lot 150: "The Shechitah Decree in Poland" Letter from the Gaon Rabbi Elimelech Gutterman, Av Beit Din of Koruv — $700 - $800
• Lot 144: Letter from the Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Livschitz, Av Beit Din and Chairman of the Rabbinical Association in Poland — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 162: Letter from the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Aryeh HaLevi Ish Horowitz, Av Beit Din of Krakow - Nasi of the First Rabbinic Congress — $700 - $800
• Lot 163: "Founder of the Home of the Sacred Yeshivah" Letter from the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman for the Donor of the — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 145: Rare: Contract from the Lomza Community Signed by the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Simchah Rabinowitz — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 70: Avodat Yisrael, the Maggid of Kozhnitz. Józefów, 1842. First Edition — $6,000 - $8,000
• Lot 15: Goral HaGr"a Tana"ch. Magnificent Edition in Excellent Condition with the Original Leather Binding — $2,000 - $2,500
• Lot 11: "The Triple Blessing" - "Priestly Blessing" Amulet on Parchment. Italy, 18/19th Century — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 32: Prayer for the Success of Moshe Montefiore's Journey to Rescue the Kidnapped Child from the Christian Church. — $3,500 - $5,000
• Lot 33: Calendar from Richmond, Virginia, 1860. Early Mention of Virginia Jews ... Very Rare — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 26: Polemic. Michtav Oz Shel Torah Opposing Agudat Yisrael by the Admo"r the Rayya"tz of Lubavitch. Especially Rare. — $500 - $600
• Lot 159: Halachic Responsum from the Würzburger Rav, the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Dov HaLevi Bamberger, to his Son — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 177: Pre-Holocaust Letter from America from Rebbetzin Yocheved, Widow of Rebbe Yosef Baruch of Chentchin — $300 - $400
• Lot 146: Important Halachic Responsum about Civil Marriage Handwritten by Rabbi David Tzvi Hoffmann — $700 - $800
• Lot 176: Holocaust Letter: Outcry from the Admo"r Rabbi Avraham Heschel of Stanislav. Elul, 1939 — $700 - $800
• Lot 128: Letter from the Mahari"tz Dushinsky, Ga'ava"d of Jerusalem; Important Blessings for a Disciple and More. Galanta, 1909 — $600 - $800
• Lot 76: Tikkun Leil Shavuot V'Hoshana Rabba. Zhitomir. Original Binding — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 148: Interesting Letter from Rabbi Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz to his Future Father- and Mother-in-Law — $700 - $800
• Lot 105: Letter by the Rishon LeTziyon Rabbi Chaim Nissim Moshe Mizrachi, — $700 - $800
• Lot 28: Haggadah shel Pesach. London [1794]. Especially Rare Haggadah — $1,300 - $1,500
• Lot 47: Shevilei Emunah. Amsterdam, 1627. Especially Rare Sefer — $1,400 - $1,600
• Lot 16: Complete Na"ch. Megishei Minchah. Especially Impressive and Magnificent Leather bindings. Rare Condition — $4,000 - $6,000
• Lot 92: Chumash Vayikra-Bamidbar. With Haftarot. Yemen, 19th Century — $1,500 - $1,800
• Lot 62: Sefer Tehillim. Halae Magdeburgicae. 1738 — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 51: Masa Melech. Salonika, 1601. Only Edition. Rare. Signatures — $500 - $700
• Lot 29: Mavo She'arim by Rabbi Chaim Vital. Salonika. Second Edition with Supplements — $500 - $700
• Lot 24: Chitzim Shnunim. Polemic Work Against those Opposing the Covenant in Galicia. First Edition of the Rare Work — $600 - $1,000
• Lot 91: 555 — $600 - $800
• Lot 25: Machaneh Ephraim. Responsa and Legal Novellae on Seder HaRamba"m by Rabbi Ephraim Navon. Constantinople, 1738. — $500 - $800
• Lot 122: Author's Autograph: Beautiful Compilation on the Halachahs of Etrog during Shemittah, Handwritten by the Tzitz Eliezer. — $600 - $800
• Lot 151: Important Letter of Approbation Handwritten by the Iggerot Moshe to One of the Gedolei HaDor — $700 - $1,000
• Lot 152: Unique Content: Lamentation Letter Handwritten by the 'Chazon Yechezkel' upon the Murder of his Young Grandson. — $400 - $600
• Lot 119: Ledger of Grants for the Chafetz Chaim Yeshivah. Jerusalem, 1953 — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 90: Shu"t Pnei Yehoshua. Amsterdam, 1715. Copy that Belonged to Rabbi Chaim Berlin with his Handwritten Glosses — $500 - $800
• Lot 153: Important Letter of Responsa [4 Pages] from the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv to Rabbi Chanoch Karelenstein. — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 192: Glorious Lelov Dynasty: Letter from the Admo"r Rabbi Shimon of Lelov to his Father, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai of Lelov, — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 106: Letter with a Resposum from Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Tziyon Segri, Av Beit Din of Casali, C. 18th Century. — $800 - $1,000
• Lot 12: Large Amulet for Protection - Manuscript on Parchment. Late 19th-Early 20th Century — $1,000 - $1,500
• Lot 186: Important Chassidic Content: Letter from the Admo"r Rabbi Moshe Leib of Kuzmir. Warsaw, 1933 — $400 - $600
• Lot 158: Interesting Letter from the Sacred Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Deutch, Av Beit Din of Bonyhád about his Sefer, Pri HaSadeh — $1,200 - $1,500
• Lot 155: Bibliographic Discovery: Renowned Bibliographic Letter from the Scholar Yitzchak Isaac Ben-Ya'akov, — $600 - $800
• Lot 219: Rare Wimpel for a Meggilat Esther. Purim, March 1933, Months after Hitler's Rise to Power — $8,000 - $10,000
• Lot 19: Mishneh Torah by the Ramba"m. Amsterdam, 1702. 'Michtav' Edition. Complete Set — $1,500 - $2,000
• Lot 126: Important Collection: 'Kitvei Semichah' Handwritten by Leading Jerusalem Rabbis, 1906 Onward — $2,000 - $3,000
• Lot 199: A Wealth of Content: Letter from the Admo"r Rabbi Naftalche of Bobov to the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Salant — $800 - $1,000