Bidspirit auctions | Ateret Auctions Auction Dec 31, 2025
Ateret Auctions, Dec 31, 2025. 170 lots, estimates 800 - 1500 $.
Ateret Auctions -
A remarkable collection of treasures, featuring:
Holy letters from the leaders of Chassidut; exemplars attributed to the righteous of the generations; manuscripts by Meorei Yisrael; personal belongings of Tzaddikim; synagogue and ceremonial textiles; and early first editions.
Lots in this catalog (170)
- Lot 1: Tin Tzedakah box, 19th century (1920–1950?), Central Europe.
- Lot 2: Embroidered Matzah Cover For the Seder. 1900. Unique!
- Lot 3: Matzah Cover, Hungary, Circa 1840
- Lot 4: Matzah Cover. Hungary, Late 1800's
- Lot 5: Unique Tablecloth For the Bimah – Uncommonly Large Sized! Poland, 1858
- Lot 6: Curtain For a Torah Ark – Eastern Europe, 1926
- Lot 7: Curtain For a Torah Ark – Special!
- Lot 8: Paroches For a Torah Ark – Immediately Post the Holocaust
- Lot 9: Luxurious and Noble Paroches For the Torah Ark. 1908
- Lot 10: Valance For a Parochet
- Lot 11: Upper Valance For a Torah Ark. Excellent Condition.
- Lot 12: Tablecloth For the Bimah – Undated
- Lot 13: “Wimpel” – Cloth For Tying a Sefer Torah Per the Customs of Ashkenaz-Germany – Especially Decorated and Luxurious.
- Lot 14: Early Wimple For a Sefer Torah – 1874
- Lot 15: Embroidered Belt For a Sefer Torah. Undated
- Lot 16: Belt For a Sefer Torah – Embroidered Velvet, 1927
- Lot 17: Unique Tablecloth. Persia, 1925
- Lot 18: Luxurious Torah Mantle – 1926
- Lot 19: A New York Rabbi, painting by T. V. Chominski. Published on the cover of Harper’s Weekly, February 14, 1891.
- Lot 20: Landscape painting by the artist Yehuda Leon Patilon
- Lot 21: Large and diverse collection of Sefarim [162].
- Lot 22: Sephardic manuscript, from a copy of the Ibn Ezra commentary on Sefer Tehillim.
- Lot 23: ‘Prayer of All Year’ With Tehillim With Yiddish Translation. Metz, 1826. Extremely Rare!
- Lot 24: Siddur Beit Tefillah as Per the Italian Customs. Livorno, 1862.
- Lot 25: Tehillim and Pirkei Avot, With Additions in Judeo-Italian. Vienna, 1862
- Lot 26: Tehillim With Arabic Seraḥ. Djerba, 1959
- Lot 27: Tzena Urena. Handsome Exemplar. Sulzbach, 1778
- Lot 28: Haggadah Shel Pesach, with translation into Judeo-German. Fürth, 1838. Rare pocket edition.
- Lot 29: She’elot U’Teshuvot Shevet Sofer, on the four sections of Shulchan Aruch, by Rabbi Simcha Bunim Sofer,
- Lot 30: Midrash Rabbah on Chumash Shemot and Megillat Esther,
- Lot 31: Sefer Aruch HaShulchan, two parts on Yoreh De’ah, by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Halevi Epstein,
- Lot 32: Sefer Zikaron Yosef, Halachic analyses in Orach Chaim and Yoreh De’ah,
- Lot 33: Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat, Part I,
- Lot 34: Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer — Halberstadt 1861 — with later glosses.
- Lot 35: Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De’ah, Part III — Vilna 1880, Romm Press — with glosses.
- Lot 36: Shu"t Atret Chachamim, by Rabbi Baruch Frankel-Teomim, Av Beit Din of Leipnik,
- Lot 37: Shu"t Shevut Yaakov, Part Two, by Rabbi Yaakov Reischer,
- Lot 38: Sefer Divrei Shaul – Edut BeYosef, Pilpulim on the four sections of Shulchan Aruch, two parts,
- Lot 39: Likutei Yekarim, Teachings of the Baal Shem Tov and His Disciples. Lemberg, [1850].
- Lot 40: Derech Pekudecha, by the Holy Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech of Dinov. Lemberg, 1865.
- Lot 41: Kahal Chassidim, wondrous stories of the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples,
- Lot 42: Emek Halachah, by the Holy Rabbi Rabbi Yehoshua Horowitz of Dzikov. Lemberg, 1870. First edition.
- Lot 43: Yitev Panim [I], by the Holy Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda, founder of the Sighet dynasty. Lemberg, 1881. First edition.
- Lot 44: Noam Elimelech. Tarnow edition, 1904.
- Lot 45: Noam Elimelech. Special and Important Edition With Approbation of the Holy Rebbe of Sieniawa. Krakow, 1932
- Lot 46: Sha’ar Hagmul and Tzava’as Hariva”Sh in One Volume
- Lot 47: Tanya, Important and Uncommon Printing! First Title Page Says “Warsaw” While the Second Title Page Says “Vilna”. 1937
- Lot 48: Both Editions of the “Tzemach Tzedek – Piskei Dinim”, Vilna, 1884 – the Original, Chassidic Copy Vs.
- Lot 49: Copy of a letter written by the Rayatz in his final years on European soil
- Lot 50: Wonderous Letters from the Kabbalistic Gaon Rabbi Segal of Tel Aviv to the Lubavitcher Rebbe
- Lot 51: Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat. Amsterdam, 1697. Rare.
- Lot 52: Shulchan Aruch from Tur Even HaEzer, with Ba’er Heitev. Amsterdam, 1739. First edition of Ba’er Heitev on Even HaEzer,
- Lot 53: Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer,
- Lot 54: Sefer Eshlei Ravrevi, Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah with Commentaries. Ostraha, [1802].
- Lot 55: Even Tekumah on the four sections of the Shulchan Aruch, by Rabbi Aharon [Broda]. Vilna, [1818]. Rare.
- Lot 56: Tur Yoreh De’ah. Kapust, 1835.
- Lot 57: Rinat Dodim, First Edition. Basel, 1600. Exemplar of Gedolim of Ashkenaz
- Lot 58: Maynei HaYeshuah. Amsterdam 1647. Copy of the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Shapiro of Gombin
- Lot 59: Metzudas David – First Edition – Altona, 1736 – Noble Exemplar.
- Lot 60: Kol Bo, an important Halachic Sefer from the era of the Rishonim. Fürth, 1782.
- Lot 61: The copy of Rabbi Moshe Hertzfeld, disciple of Maran the Chasam Sofer – Tractate Shekalim, Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud,
- Lot 62: Akedat Yitzchak. Lemberg, [1808]. With a stamp and signatures of Rabbi Moshe Halevi Folk Av Beis Din of Bonyhad.
- Lot 63: Ohalei Yaakov, on the Sanctity of the Sefer Torah Copy of the Tzaddik Gaon Rabbi Naftali Schwartz Son of the Kol Aryeh
- Lot 64: The Meiri on Tractate Shabbat. Vienna, 1862. The personal exampler of the Holy Rabbi Moshe Hager of Seret!
- Lot 65: Mishnayos, [V] Kodashim, with a commentary by HaGra and Rabbi Akiva Eiger and more. Berlin, [1861].
- Lot 66: The personal exampler of Rabbi Binyamin Fuchs, Av Beit Din of Grosswardein — Chiddushei Ben Yair,
- Lot 67: Exemplar of the Holy Esh Das of Ozherov
- Lot 68: The personal exampler of Rabbi Baruch Avraham Bindiner, son-in-law of the Mahara"m Panet: Nezer Yisrael,
- Lot 69: Orchot Tzadikkim. Dedication Handwritten by Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Halberstam of Prustik
- Lot 70: Notes by a Torah scholar, including Chiddushim and a record tracking his order of study over many years.
- Lot 71: Manuscript, innovations on the Rambam Hilchot Korban Pesach - Ashkenazic script - 18th century
- Lot 72: Manuscript, single leaf, Chiddushim of Rabbi Meir Fischles, Av Beit Din of Prague (the Maharam Bumsla),
- Lot 73: Manuscript,
- Lot 74: Manuscript - innovations of Admor on the Sugya of an egg that was born on Yom Tov - a copy of the response of Arugas
- Lot 75: "הגוים אפס ותוהו נגדך חשובים" - Handwritten Piyyut, Ashkenaz [the 18th century?].
- Lot 76: Letter by the Moreh Tzeddek and Shoches and Bodek of Baren to his teacher and Rav Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher of
- Lot 77: Manuscript, contract for an apartment in Darmstadt (Germany) - Elul, 1749
- Lot 78: The Polemic of the Renewal of the Semicha! Rare Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Binyomin Ze'ev Zinger of Miklosh
- Lot 79: Chidushei Chasam Sofer, on tractate Rosh Hashana leaf 22, handwritten by his disciple. [Pressburg], early 19th century.
- Lot 80: Foundational Sefer For the Study of the Zohar. Derech Emet. Glosses from the Arizal. First Edition, Venice, 1658
- Lot 81: Kaballa. Kanfei Yona by the Rama of Pano. First Edition.
- Lot 82: Manuscripts on matters of Segulot and Amulets, incantations, diagrams, and letter permutations,
- Lot 83: Third Edition of Yalkut Re’uveini. Amsterdam, 1700
- Lot 84: Zayit Ra’anan, commentary on Yalkut Shimoni, by Rabbi Avraham Abeli Gumbiner, author of “Magen Avraham.” Dessau, 1704.
- Lot 85: Sefer Hamitzvot. Berlin, 1733
- Lot 86: Shevet Musar, by Rabbi Eliyahu HaKohen of Izmir. Constantinople, 1735. Rare.
- Lot 87: Sefer Shema’ta Chadta, by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Broda. Frankfurt an der Oder, 1737. First edition. Rare.
- Lot 88: Re’ach Sadeh, by Rabbi Shimon Dweik HaKohen. Constantinople, 1738.
- Lot 89: almud Yerushalmi on some of the tractates of Seder Mo’ed and Seder Nezikin,
- Lot 90: Sefer Meir Einei Chachamim, on the Tractates of the Shas, by the Mahara"m of Lublin – Sulzbach,
- Lot 91: Sheyarei Knesset HaGedolah. Salonika, 1757. Pedigreed Copy!
- Lot 92: Mashmia Yeshuah, by the Abarbanel. Offenbach, 1767. Important Signatures.
- Lot 93: Sefer Pri Chadash, on Yoreh De’ah, by Rabbi Chizkiyah De Silva – Fürth,
- Lot 94: Rare Sefer on Hebrew Grammar
- Lot 95: Printed in Livorno, First Edition: Machaneh Reuven. 1777. Bound with Tosfot Rabbeinu Peretz. 1819.
- Lot 96: Einei Avraham. On the Rambam. Single Edition! Amsterdam 1784
- Lot 97: Tzidah Baruch, I–II, Derashot on the Torah and Moadim, by Rabbi Betzalel HaLevi Brandais. Prague, 1786. First edition.
- Lot 98: Basic Book: Beit Meir. First Edition. Frankfurt an der Oder, 1787
- Lot 99: Shut Rabbeinu Menachem Azarya. Dhyrenfurth, [1788]. Rare.
- Lot 100: Sefer Ha’ikarim. Frankfurt Am Main, 1788
- Lot 101: Iyov, an elucidated Sefer, with Ashkenazic translation, by YBA. Prague, 1791.
- Lot 102: SA2
- Lot 103: Maasei Hashem, Derashot by the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi. zolkova, 1802. Rare.
- Lot 104: Yavin Shemu’ah, by the Gaon, author of Shemen Rokach. Prague, 1814. First edition. Pedigreed exampler.
- Lot 105: Sha’arei Torah, Twenty-Four Principles, I, by Rabbi Binyamin Wolf Lev. Vienna, 1821. First edition,
- Lot 106: Pardes HaChochmah, by Rabbi Moshe [Aharonson]. Sidelkov, 1836. With the author’s signature.
- Lot 107: [4] Sefarim printed in Warsaw in a single volume: Derashat HaRamban on the greatness of our holy Torah (1837),
- Lot 108: Sefer Ateret Shaul, by Rabbi Shaul Luria, Av Beit Din of Shavlan. Vilna, 1841.
- Lot 109: Sefer Moznaim Lamishpat and Mishna Achronal on Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat, by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer. Vol. I,
- Lot 110: Letter by the renowned Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Noson Kotler author of 'Kerem Shlomo' to the Gaon Av Beis Dinof Shavil Rabbi
- Lot 111: Receipt from 'Yeshivat Maharsh"a', Ostroh–Volhynia, 1939.
- Lot 112: Printed receipt, signed in the holy hand of the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin, son of Maran the Seraph of Brisk,
- Lot 113: Polemical letter by Rabbi Yehoshua HaLevi Grosspfog of France to Rabbi Shmuel Greenberg. Strasbourg, 1930.
- Lot 114: Letter by Rabbi Zeidel Semiotitzky for the Mir Yeshiva
- Lot 115: Letter by Rabbi Aharon Dov Dachovich, rav of the Tiferest Torah synagogue of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
- Lot 116: Letter from Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, Gaavad of Yerushalayim.
- Lot 117: Letter handwritten by Rabbi Yishma'el Hacohen of Modena. Modena, 06.12.1772. Responsum by Rabbi Yishma'al Hacohen,
- Lot 118: Manuscript, Seder Avodas Yom HaKippurim "Atah Konanta", Italy [mid 18th century]. — $1,500 - $2,000
- Lot 119: Collection of [6] documents: Shitrei Tena'im, Ketubos and Shtar Hitchayvus LeChalitzah. [1708-1870].
- Lot 120: Documents with signatures of the Rabbanim of Safed and the stamp of the Vaad Kehilat HaSefardim V'Kollelot HaSefardim
- Lot 121: Letter by Rabbi Shlomo Berdugo to his son, on the official stationery of Rabbi Yitzchak Alafia.
- Lot 122: Letter by Rabbi Menashe Hacohen Arazi. Safed, [1902].
- Lot 123: Handwritten Letter from Rabbi Yehoshua Adehan of Fes, Ca. 1840
- Lot 124: Letter Handwritten by and with the stamp of Rabbi David Ben-Shimon, Abd of the HaMa'aravim Community of Jerusalem.
- Lot 125: She’elot U’Teshuvot Vayomer Yitzchak, I, by Rabbi Yitzchak Ben Walid. Livorno, 1876.
- Lot 126: Sefer Petach Eliyahu, Part I, by the Shadar of Tiberias, Rabbi Eliyahu Yelluz (later Av Beit Din of Tiberias).
- Lot 127: Sefer Pnei Shlomo, on Tractate Bava Batra, by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried — Zolkova, 1846 — first edition.
- Lot 128: Torat Hazevach by the Author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch. Third Edition, in the Author's Lifetime Ungvar, 1869
- Lot 129: Hechsher for Passover by Rabbi Yehuda Menachem Segal Landau Av Beis Din of Botoshan.
- Lot 130: Broadside with a call by the holy Rav Rabbi Yechezkel Sheraga Lifshitz-Halberstam of Stropkov to awaken his Chassidim
- Lot 131: Yiddish broadside issued by the European center of Po'alei Agudas Yisroel, Paris, the eve of Rosh Hashana [1946],
- Lot 132: Early Wedding Invitations of the Krati Dynasty which Existed for Over a Hundred and Forty Years
- Lot 133: Manuscript.
- Lot 134: Letter of Recommendation from Kollel Wołyń for Those Who Study Torah Despite Financial Hardship
- Lot 135: Bill of Sale of a Place in the Women’s Section in the Arizal Shul in Tzfas
- Lot 136: Orante letter for the New Year,
- Lot 137: Lev Ha'Ivri, I, commentary on the will of the Chasam Sofer, by Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger. Ungvar, 1864.
- Lot 138: Sefer 'Chomer BaKodesh' shu"t by Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch HaLevi son of Rabbi Pinchas Ish Horowitz. Zolkiew (Zhovkva), 1876.
- Lot 139: “Ma’amar Yayin Ha'Meshumar.” Lemberg, 1867. Rare.
- Lot 140: Seder Avodas Hayom, Orach Chaim I, by Rabbi Rabbi Yissachar Doverish [Episdorf]. Lemberg, 1868. First edition.
- Lot 141: Four Sefarim bound in one volume: Sefer Charedim (Lemberg, 1875); Iggeret Ba’alei Chaim (Warsaw, 1879);
- Lot 142: Mesillat Yesharim, by Rabbeinu the Ramchal. Warsaw, 1884.
- Lot 143: Pe’er Mekedoshim, by Rabbi Yosef Shapira of Vinitza. Brailov, 1914, and a postcard from the author. Tel Aviv, 1945.
- Lot 144: Ma’amarei Be’er Chaim Mordechai, by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Raller. Cluj, 1939.
- Lot 145: Notebook with writings by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch ben Rabbi Gershon of the Bavitum community [near Göttingen, Germany],
- Lot 146: Rare!
- Lot 147: Important letter that was sent by the Tzaddik Rav Rabbi Moshe Kahn the Gabai of Maran the Atzei Chaim of Siget to the
- Lot 148: Letter by the Rebbetzin the Wife of the Yalkus Sofer of Paks — $800 - $1,000
- Lot 149: – Kerestir – Postcard From Rabbi Shlomo Spitzer to the Mateh Reuven of Kerestir
- Lot 150: Lengthy Question on Dinei Ishus by the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Luria to the Lev HaIvri