Auction 105: Rabbinic Autograph Letters & Passover Haggadot.
By Kestenbaum & Company
Apr 4, 2024
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States

The auction commences with a first edition of the Segulah-book "Raziel HaMalach" (Lot 1); followed by books that were owned by significant rabbis: 


R. Shlomo Ganzfried (Lot 5); The Aruch Hashulchan (Lot 6); R. Meir Shapira of Lublin (Lot 68)


The most valuable lot offered is a Sefer that was personally owned by, and has a long personal inscription in the hand of, R. Chaim Volozhiner (Lot 4).


The auction contains many excellent offerings of Autograph Letters including:


The first Rebbe of Sadigura, R. Avraham Ya'akov (Lot 13); The Chofetz Chaim (Lots 17-20); The Ohr Same’ach (Lot 41); The Kesav Sofer (Lot 58); Reb Chaim Brisker (Lot 59); The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka and her sister (Lots 50-51); and dozens more of such letters.


Autograph manuscripts of note are those from R. Menachem Mendel of Shklov (Lot 9A); The Tiferes Yisroel (Lot 40); and a 14th-century Ramba'n manuscript (Lot 9).


As per annual tradition, this pre-Pesach auction features a wide selection of Passover Hagadot:


The rare, the exotic and the curious; with examples from 1545 through until 2008.


Among particularly Early examples: Lot 87 (Venice, 1545); Lot 88 (Riva di Trento, 1561) and Lot 95 (Salonika, 1569).


Beautifully illustrated Hagadoth include: Lot 93 (Venice, 1740); Lot 85 (India, 1874) and Lot 115 (The Avner Moriah Hagadah).


Historically significant Hagadoth include Lot 72 (American/Canadian/Anglo-related) and many examples from Germany, India, Jerusalem; as well as first edition Hagadah commentaries by the Vilna Gaon (Lot 96), R. Ya'akov Emden (Lot 78); and ending with several facsimile editions. 



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LOT 10:

ABRAMSKY, YECHEZKEL

(“Reb Chatzkel, ” Rabbi in Slutzk ...

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Auction took place on Apr 4, 2024 at Kestenbaum & Company
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ABRAMSKY, YECHEZKEL

(“Reb Chatzkel, ” Rabbi in Slutzk, Av Beth Din in London, Rosh Yeshiva in Bnei Braq, 1886-1976). Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew to the Chief Rabbinate of Tel Aviv on London Beth Din letterhead.

Concerning a divorce matter. One page.

London, 23rd Shevat, 1941.


R. Yechezkel Abramsky studied in several of the leading yeshivos in Lithuania and grew to become a close disciple in Brisk of R. Chaim Soloveitchik. His learning was such that he served as a community Rabbi while still in his teens. Following severe religious oppression as a result of Soviet Communist policy, R. Abramsky became a prominent resistance figure, leading a rabbinic Vaad along with R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin, and publishing the rabbinic journal Yagdil Torah. Eventually arrested, the Soviets sentenced him to five years hard labor in Siberia. After two years’ confinement, he was released through a prisoner trade arranged with the intervention of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning.


R. Abramsky left the Soviet Union, and arrived in London in 1931 where he led the Machzikei Hadath community; later he was appointed President of the London Beth Din by Chief Rabbi Hertz. After 17 years in England, he moved to Israel where he served as Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka in Bnei Brak. His major work is Chazon Yechezkel, a complete commentary to the Tosefta.