Auction 112 Eretz Israel and Zionism, Anti-semitism, World War II and refugees, Postcards and Photographs, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Seforim, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes
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Jan 21, 2019
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 473:

Huge Collection of Hundreds of Handwritten Papers and Important Documents / Talks the Mashgiach Rabbi Yechezkel ...

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Huge Collection of Hundreds of Handwritten Papers and Important Documents / Talks the Mashgiach Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein Gave in Shanghai

Huge collection of hundreds of handwritten pages, ephemera and important documents. Placed in four binders.

* Dozens of pages of mussar talks in stencil print given by the mashgiach Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein in the Mir yeshiva when it was in Shanghai in 1945-6, with glosses in unidentified handwriting. [Whether these talks have been printed has not been checked.] Mussar talks on various topics - 'If I am not for myself, who is for me?' sharing in the sorrow of the Jews, all leadership is only advice, man's attachment to the material and his attraction to it, the deep understanding of Torah text and Divine providence, eulogies of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, ways of Divine conduct and more.

* Stencil leaves - lessons in kabbalah with handwritten notes by an unidentified writer, a number of letters in Rabbi Yosef Bagad's handwriting [letters concerning various current events from students with responsa in his handwriting and with his signature], report cards from the elementary school [sixth grade] of the student, Rabbi Dov Kook [the kabbalist of Tiberias], authorization notes with rabbinic signatures, Shana Tova cards [including Shana Tova printed in the shape of a paper cut designed by Yehudit Shador, Shana Tova printed by the Metivtah D'Yerushalayim Torat Chessed and more], an issue of the Das Yiddische Volk newspaper from October 1944, 'Zecher L'Machatzit HaShekel' notes, 'Terumah' certificates, dozens of various receipts from Torah institutions and yeshivas, flyleaves with rabbinic dedications and signatures, photographs of Admors and rabbis, early black-and-white photograph of the Temple Mount, leaflets regarding Shabbat, guarding the seminaries, bills of sale of chametz with names of rabbis, early leaf in [unidentified] Sephardic script, and many more.

Overall very fine condition.


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