Auction 52 Tiferet 52 - winter 2024 Auction
By Tiferet Auctions
Jan 14, 2024
Beit HaDfus 12, B, 4th floor, Jerusalem, Israel

A special auction of rare items:

First editions of Hassidic Sefarim, Slavita-Zhitomir, letters by Tzaddikim and the greatest Hassidic Rabbis, the Geonim of Ashkenaz and Hungary, the greatest Rabbis of Lithuania, the greatest Poskim of previous generations, pedigreed copies, artifacts of renowned Tzaddikim, Satmar, Chabad and more. 

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LOT 44:

Psikta Rabbati. Yitzchak Katz Press. Prague, 1653. Copy of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Brod of Margentheim

Sold for: $350
Start price:
$ 350
Estimated price :
$500 - $600
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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Auction took place on Jan 14, 2024 at Tiferet Auctions
tags: Books

Psikta Rabbati. Yitzchak Katz Press. Prague, 1653. Copy of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Brod of Margentheim

Psikta Rabbati. Yitzchak Katz Press. Prague, [1653]. First edition, rare. Pedigreed copy. 


74 leaves. 18 cm. Without the title page. On the inside binding. the signature of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Brod: "הקטן זלמן בן הגאון הגדול החסיד המפורסם מוהרר אברהם ברודא זל". There and on the title page, the signature of Ber Adler  Hacohen and an additional signature. 


The Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Brod (passed away in 1742) - since 1729 was the Rav of Margentheim, the son and disciple of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Brod Av Beis Din of Metz, Frankfurt and Prague. 


The Gaon Rabbi Ber ben Rabbi Mordechai Adler (1785-1866) one of the sages and Dayanim of Frankfurt in the time of the Chasam Sofer. His innovations on the Shas were published in Kuntres Kanfei Nesharim inside the book Leshon Zahav. His father, Rabbi Mordechai, was Av Beis Din of Hanover and tge cousin of the famed Rabbi Nosson Adler. 


Ancient leather binding with traces of buckles. Without the title page. Stains. Moth holes. Fair-good condition.