Giant Collection of Hundreds of Handwritten Leaves and Important Documents/ Mussar Lectures from the Mashgiach ...

Giant Collection of Hundreds of Handwritten Leaves and Important Documents/ Mussar Lectures from the Mashgiach Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein, Delivered in Shanghai

Giant collection of handwritten documents, ephemera, and important documents in four binders.

* Dozens of leaves of stencils of mussar lectures delivered by the Mashgiach, Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein in the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai, 1946, with handwritten comments in an unidentified hand. [We have not checked if these lectures were ever printed.] Mussar lectures on various subjects: the plots of the evil inclination, reflections on the unity of the creation, virtue of "bechira," levels of awe of Heaven and other subjects.

* Flyleaves from 1840-1940 with owner notations; printed ketuba with illustrations; rabbinical letters; early receipts from Torah institutions and yeshivot; photos of rabbis and admors [including a picture of the Admor of Gur]; invitations to weddings at chassidic courts; leaves with kabbalistic sketches and illustrations; Torah novellae in an unidentified hand; posters regarding the seamline between religious and irreligious; battle for Shabbat observance and opposing improper advertisements; poster regarding the controversy in the Ponovezh Yeshiva; raffle tickets; donations tickets; handwritten prayers; postcards; Yartzeit leaves from Torah institutions, lithographs; election posters; personal letters between young couples - 1950s; personal letters; stencil print from prominent rabbis with handwritten corrections about "how to be saved on the day of judgment;" early photos of scenery and people in the Land of Israel [Western Wall, neighborhoods in the Old City of Jerusalem, children in educational institutions and many more]; sale of chametz contracts; Yizkor prayer for Holocaust victims; two lithograph illustrations published by Yosef Chassid, and many more.

Additionally contains letters to and from Rabbi Nachum Kook [1932-2010, Rabbi of the Tel Ganim neighborhood in Ramat Gan, father of kabbalist Rabbi Dov Kook of Tiberias]. Some letters in his hand and with his signature. Includes an official letter from the administration of the zoological park in Ramat Gan from 1976 confirming that Rabbi Kook purchased the monkey island in the safari. ["This contract testifies that Rabbi Nachum Kook of Ramat Gan purchased with a complete "kinyan" the island called "monkey island" that is in the zoological park in Ramat Gan, including all the monkeys on it. They all belong to Rabbi Kook, just like the other animals in the zoological park that he already purchased from us] and much more.

The collection has not been thoroughly inspected. Varying sizes and condition. Overall very fine condition.