Auction 63
Auction 63 - An Exquisite Selection!
By Tiferet Auctions
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Mar 2, 2025
Beit HaDfus 12, B, 4th floor, Jerusalem, Israel
The pinnacle of the most unique, important, and prestigious items in the world of Chassidism, Judaica, and collectibles. Holy artifacts from revered tzaddikim, unpublished manuscripts from great Torah sages, rare and early editions—never before seen!
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LOT 25:
Medrash Tanchuma. Exemplar of the “Wonderous Melamed” of the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch
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Sold for: $220 (₪790)
Price including buyer’s premium and sales tax:
$
284.90 (₪1,022.79)
Calculated by rate set by auction house at the auction day
Start price:
$
200
Buyer's Premium: 25%
VAT: 18%
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Medrash Tanchuma. Exemplar of the “Wonderous Melamed” of the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch
Medrash Tanchuma on the five Chumashim. 2 volumes. With “Eitz Yosef” and “Anaf Yosef”. Includes two additional sections of “Medrash Shocher Tov” on Shmuel and Mishlei and “Tehillim”. Historic and important Lubavitch exemplar.
Before us is a completely unique memento of the Chassid Rabbi Moshe Binyamin Melamed, one of the teachers and guides of the Rebbe Rayatz, who served as a tester inLubavitch and remained engraved in the holy memoires of the Rebbe Rayatz from 1891.:
“The tester R’ Moshe Binyamin, Melamed of children, a man of about forty years, pious and versed in the legends and Mussar Seforim… and in the three days of the holiday and on Shabbos after reviewing Mishanyos Rabbi Moshe Binyamin told me some stories in the holy tongue which made a wnderously great and good impression on me…”
Ownership notation on the title page: “Moshe Binyamin Melamed Halevi of Lubavitch”.
Additional ownership notations from him on the other title pages. A weak and somewhat erased stamp on the title page. Several short glosses.
Separate title page for each part. 2 title pages for the second part and the last section of Tehillim.
138, [2] 127, 38, [2] 102 pp. Dry, crumbling paper. Overall fair condition.
Measurement: | 23 cm |

