Auction 10 Part 3 Manuscripts, Letters by Rabbis, Passover Haggadot, Machzorim and Prayer Books, Items that have been Received after the Closing of the Catalog )Zionism, Holocaust, JUdaica, Religious Books, Letters by Rabbis and More
Sep 26, 2016 (Your local time)
Israel
 Harav Maimon 2, Jerusalem
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LOT 656:

Eight Letters Handwritten by the Most Prominent Rabbis

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a. A letter in the handwriting and with the signature of Rabbi "Yehonatan Teomim" to Rabbi Moshe of Kalish, with a request to take his son for the first and last days of Pesach. 19th century.

b. A letter on financial matters, in the handwriting and with the signature of Rabbi Yaakov Zvi Shapiro of Grodno. 1890.
Rabbi Yaakov Zvi Shapiro, one of the prominent Rabbis of 19th century Grodno and Ostryna, author of "Tiferet Yaakov" (Vilna, 1899) – a commentary on "Tiferet Yisrael" on the Mishna. Also wrote the book "Taharat HaShulchan" on the Shulchan Aruch (Vilna, 1905). His son-in-law was Rabbi Yaakov Tawschunski, one of the Rabbis of Ostryna, author of "Or Haskel".

c. A leaf with Torah thoughts on the laws of issur v'heter in the handwriting of Rabbi Yaakov Naftali HaCohen. 1932.
Rabbi Yaakov Naftali HaCohen (1885-1972), known for his great work "Otzar HaGedolim Alufei Yaakov". A descendant of the Rema, the Maharsha and the Shach. A disciple of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, author of "Arugot HaBosem". At the age of 18 he was ordained to the Rabbinate and as a Dayan by his Rabbis as well as by Rabbi Meshulam Roth. He survived the Holocaust, after which he moved to Hungary. He established a Beit Din to permit Agunot who had survived the concentration camps. In 1948 he immigrated to Israel, settled in Haifa and began collecting material on the biographies of great Rabbis from the finalizing of the Talmud until the generation of the Shulchan Aruch. He later published the nine-part work under the name "Otzar HaGedolim Alufei Yaakov". It was published in 1967. He also wrote "Savar Naftali" and more.

d. A letter by Rabbi Nachum Shemarya Shechter to Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Kasher author of "Torah Shleima". Jerusalem, 1963.
Rabbi Nacum Shemarya Shechter served as Dayan and Av Beit Din of several communities in Romania: Darabani, Bucharest and others. He wrote several books: "Perach Sushan" on tractate Avot, "Beit HaMidrash Shem V'Ever" and others. A primary disciple of the Rebbe Rabbi Avraham Matityahu of Shtefanesht.

e. A letter in the handwriting and with the signature of Rabbi Yisrael Isser Shapiro to Rabbi Binyamin Avigdori. Tel Aviv, 1968.
Rabbi Yisrael Isser Shapiro, the son of the Gaon of Volozhin Rabbi Rafael Shapiro and the brother-in-law of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk. Served as Rabbi of Lapitsch. He later established the Yeshiva "Sha'arei Torah" in Jaffa, which he headed.

f. A marriage confirmation in the handwriting and with the signature of Rabbi Avraham Shalom Borenstein Av Beit Din of Zguriţa and the environs. Kiryat Motzkin, 1940.

g. A letter with the signature of the Kabbalist Rabbi Sraya Devlitzky (born in 1926). In his youth he was a student of the Rabbis Rabbi David Baharan and Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Charlap. He studied Kabbalah from the greatest Sephardi Kabbalists of Jerusalem: Rabbi Mordechai Sharabi, Rabbi Ovadiah Hedaya and Rabbi Mordechai Attia. Author of many books in both simple meaning and Kabbalah.
Condition: All of the letters are in good general condition.

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