Auction 96
FINE JUDAICA: PRINTED BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, RABBINIC LETTERS, CEREMONIAL & GRAPHIC ART
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Feb 9, 2022
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 77, Suite 1108 141 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205, United States
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LOT 27:
EVEN-LAPIDOTH, ALEXANDER MOSHE
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Sold for: $1,800
Start price:
$
500
Estimated price :
$800 - $1,200
Buyer's Premium: 25%
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EVEN-LAPIDOTH, ALEXANDER MOSHE
(Av Beth Din of Raseyn, 1819-1906). AND: Yechiel Michel Wolfson (Av Beth Din of Yanishok, 1844-99). Two Autograph Letters Signed (attached), written in Hebrew to R. Yoseph Zechariah Stern of Shavel (author of Zechor Yoseph).
Requesting the recipient assist in obtaining R. Shraga Meir Lazerovitch a rabbinic position that has opened up in the city of Krakės (Kaunas region).
One page, with integral blank, laid down.
Yanishok (Joniškis, Lithuania): 5th Shevat 1885
R. Alexander Moshe Lapidot was R. Yisroel Salanter’s right hand and one of the founders of the Mussar Movement. He authored the celebrated “Divrei Emeth.”
A disciple of the Beis HaLevi in Volozhin, R. Yechiel Michel Wolfson (Otzar HaRabbanim 9278) was the son-in-law of R. Chaim Zalman, Av Beth Din of Mir. He authored the three-volume work of responsa, Sephath HaYam.
