Auction 107
Winner's Unlimited - Eretz Israel and Zionism, Postcards and Photographs, Numismatics, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Holy books, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes
May 8, 2018
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Israel
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem
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LOT 133:
Early Picture of the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Gutmacher
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Sold for: $50
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Estimated price:
$100 - $200
Auction house commission:
22%
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'Picture of the true genius pious and humble, our teacher and rabbi, Rabbi Eliyahu Gutmacher, Av Beit Din of the Greiditz community ...'
Rabbi Eliyahu Gutmacher [1796-1874]: gaon, kabbalist, in his youth he learned with Rabbi Akiva Eiger in Posen and was known as a tremendous prodigy at a young age. Precursor of Zionism, one of the first to call for agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel in the 19th century. He began to serve as rabbi of Greiditz in 1839, and quickly became the exceptional figure of a chassidic Admor in Germany. He was friendly with Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer.
6x11 cm. Stains. Moderate condition.
