Collection of Books and Booklets – Torah Novellae, Letters and Sermons of Rebbe Yoel of Satmar – On Talmud, Torah ...

Collection of Books and Booklets – Torah Novellae, Letters and Sermons of Rebbe Yoel of Satmar – On Talmud, Torah and Festivals

Large collection of books and booklets (some bound together): letters of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, and novellae on the Talmud, the Torah and the festivals, delivered on various occasions over the course of 1950-1960, compiled and printed by his followers and disciples. Brooklyn and Jerusalem, 1956-2017. 

• Torah novellae heard from the Rebbe of Satmar in 1956 – novellae on the Torah and festivals. Two volumes of the first edition – Jerusalem, 1956.

• Torah novellae heard from the Rebbe of Satmar from Parashat Balak to Parashat Devarim 1959. Brooklyn: Yerushalayim Press.

• Mari Tav, booklet containing a responsum of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum to one of his disciples [R. Tzvi Pinchas Moskowitz] on whether women held in Nazi concentration camps have the halachic status of captives. Jerusalem: HaTechiyah, 1962.

• Booklet of Torah novellae by Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar written by his disciples, booklet 2 – Pesach and Shavuot. Brooklyn, 1963. • Opening lecture of the Rebbe of Satmar to the students of the Torah VeYirah yeshiva in 1963. Brooklyn: Sender Deutsch, 1963.

• Three booklets – Novellae on Talmudic passages by the Rebbe of Satmar, written by his disciple and attendant Tzvi Hirsch Meisels: Booklet 1, Kinyan Peirot / Booklet 2, Maot Konot / Booklet 5, Prozbul. Brooklyn, 1964-1966.

• Three volumes – Torah novellae by the Rebbe of Satmar, written by his disciples: Booklet 1 – Torah novellae on Bereshit (Brooklyn, 1963); booklet 2 – Torah novellae on Shemot (Brooklyn, 1963); booklet 4 – Torah novellae on Bamidbar (Brooklyn, 1967).

• Pri Temarim – compilation of Torah novellae by the rabbis, dayanim, deans and students of the Satmar kollels. Volume 2, Shavuot 1978. Published by Yitav Lev Satmar community. Brooklyn: Sender Deutsch, 1978.

• Divrei Yoel – letters, volume 1. Published the year following his passing by his attendant, R. Efraim Yosef Dov Ashkenazi. Brooklyn: Yerushalayim Press, 1980. • Igrot Maharit – letters written by Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, some printed for the first time from manuscript. Kiryat Yoel: Mazal Press, 2001.

• Igrot Maharit, Part II – letters written by Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, printed for the first time from manuscript. Kiryat Yoel: Mazal Press, 2017.

16 volumes of books and booklets (some of them mimeographs of a typewritten print). Varying size and condition. Good general condition. Signatures and stamps. Old and new bindings.

Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979) was the youngest son of Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov (1836-1904), and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehuda, the Yitav Lev (1808-1883), who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth as a leading Torah scholar of his generation, for his perspicacity and intellectual capacities, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. At a young age, he was appointed rabbi of Irshava. In 1925, he was appointed rabbi of Karoly (Carei; in place of R. Shaul Brach who went to serve as rabbi of Kashoi), and in 1934, of Satmar (Satu Mare). In all the places he served as rabbi, he also maintained a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of the faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was one of the founding pillars of the Torah world in the generation following the Holocaust. After surviving the Holocaust, he emigrated to the United States, where he established the Satmar Chassidic community. He served as president of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem, and as leader of Orthodox Jewry in the United States and throughout the world. His writings were published in dozens of books: VaYoel Moshe, Responsa Divrei Yoel, Divrei Yoel on the Torah and more.