Genazym

Genazym is offering a personal letter from R Ovadia Yosef to R Shlomo Zalman Auerbach re: High Israeli Politics concerning the Shas Party

The bitter politics surrounding the 1992 Knesset Elections (which led to the Oslo Agreement) and the bitter politics in the frum world surrounding the Shas Party's disobeying the political directives of the leadership of the "Litvish" Yeshiva World's leadership.

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Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym is offering a personal letter from R Ovadia Yosef to R Shlomo Zalman Auerbach re: High Israeli Politics concerning the Shas Party

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Genazym is offering the Prague 1595 edition of the famous Ramban theological essay דְּרָשַׁת “תּוֹרַת הַשֵּׁם תְּמִימָה”

In this essay, Ramban analyzes the grandeur of the Written Law , the תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב, refuting Christlogical readings and the skepticism of Spanish Jewish אֶפִּיקוֹרְסִים. This is the edition published in the Prague of the Maharal Era.

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Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym is offering the Prague 1595 edition of the famous Ramban theological essay דְּרָשַׁת "תּוֹרַת הַשֵּׁם תְּמִימָה"

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Genazym: The First Printing of the classic בֵּית מֵאִיר (1787), the author’s own copy with extensive handwritten glosses on the sides!

Rabbi Meir Posner of Danzig (1725-1807), one of the leading poskim of the entire 18th century. R Akiva Eger used to send him his questions! A classic אב"ד of the "Old School"

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Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym: The First Printing of the classic בֵּית מֵאִיר (1787), the author's own copy with extensive handwritten glosses on the sides!

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Genazym is auctioning the 15h century classic of Talmudic Methodolgy – הֲלִיכוֹת עוֹלָם, first complete edition (Constantinople 1510)

This methodological intro to the Talmud was held in high esteem, and R Yosef Karo wrote a commentary (סֵפֶר כְּלָלֵי הַגְּמָרָא) on it. One of the first Hebrew books ever printed

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Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym is auctioning the 15h century classic of Talmudic Methodolgy - הֲלִיכוֹת עוֹלָם, first complete edition (Constantinople 1510)

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The original printing of the famous עֵין יַעֲקֹב on the אַגָּדוֹת, being offered by Genazym

The 1516 and 1522 editions complied and explained by the famous father and son team רַבִּי יַעֲקֹב בֶּן חָבִיב and רַבִּי לֵוִי בֶּן חָבִיב ))(מהרלב”ח. Which had a profound impact on subsequent Jewish history.

Rabbi Dovid Katz

The original printing of the famous עֵין יַעֲקֹב on the אַגָּדוֹת, being offered by Genazym

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Genazym is auctioning a political-lobbying letter from R Chaim Brisker to his friend the בַּעַל “דּוֹרוֹת הָרִאשׁוֹנִים”re: the elections for Chief Rabbi of the Turkish Empire

R Chaim was opposing the election of "Conservative Rabbi" חַיִּים נָחוּם, fearing he would spread הַשְׂכָּלָה וְקַלּוּת בְּמִצְווֹת among the Sephardic masses

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym is auctioning a political-lobbying letter from R Chaim Brisker to his friend the בַּעַל "דּוֹרוֹת הָרִאשׁוֹנִים"re: the elections for Chief Rabbi of the Turkish Empire

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Genazym is offering the famous math book: “סֵפֶר הַמִּסְפָּר” מֵאֵת רַבִּי אֵלִיָּהוּ מִזְרָחִי הַמְפֻרְסָם (בַּעַל הָרְאֵ”ם עַל פֵּרוּשׁ רָשִׁ”י עַל הַחֻמָּשׁ)

Published in the Turkish Empire in the 1500s by the famous Soncino Family, including a controversial colophon re: a fght between the Soncinos and the anisemitic Catholic "Billy Graham" – Friar John of Capistrano

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym is offering the famous math book: "סֵפֶר הַמִּסְפָּר" מֵאֵת רַבִּי אֵלִיָּהוּ מִזְרָחִי הַמְפֻרְסָם (בַּעַל הָרְאֵ"ם עַל פֵּרוּשׁ רָשִׁ"י עַל הַחֻמָּשׁ)

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A Renaissance Edition of Azarya de Rossi’s Controversial Book – Being Auctioned by Genazym

PLUS the ONLY surviving copy of the famous חֵרֶם issued by R’ Yosef Caro’s בֵּית דִּין. A classic tale in Jewish history

Rabbi Dovid Katz

A Renaissance Edition of Azarya de Rossi's Controversial Book - Being Auctioned by Genazym

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Sefer Shalsheles HaKabbalah, the Renaissance Classic, is Being Offered in the New Genazym Catalog

Famously controversial chronicle, dissed by the historians, but beloved by the masses

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Sefer Shalsheles HaKabbalah, the Renaissance Classic, is Being Offered in the New Genazym Catalog

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Historic Handwritten Letter by R’ Chaim Brisker from 1909 Auctioned by Genazym

R’ Katz explains the context of this letter and the elections to the Russian government’s ” Rabbinical Commission ” to which R Chaim was indeed elected

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Historic Handwritten Letter by R’ Chaim Brisker from 1909 Auctioned by Genazym

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The First Zohar Ever Printed-Cremona 1559 – Offered by Genazym

The same Pope who burned all the Gemaras and סִפְרֵי נִגְלֶה permitted publishing the Zohar…for nefarious reasons

Rabbi Dovid Katz

The First Zohar Ever Printed-Cremona 1559 - Offered by Genazym

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Responsa Mahari ben Lev From Genazym (1598)

Printed in the luxurious palace of Gracia Mendes’ daughter in Constantinople in 1598. Gracia, Joseph Nasi, Donna Reyna, a family of exemplary Sephardic richie-riches

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Responsa Mahari ben Lev From Genazym (1598)

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Sefer HaManhig: Genazym is Offering the Original Edition, By a Talmid of the ר”י בעל התוספת

This classic was written circa 1200, and is the first of the genre of minhag-litetature, evaluating the correctness of various halachic practices

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Sefer HaManhig: Genazym is Offering the Original Edition, By a Talmid of the ר"י בעל התוספת

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Genazym Auction: Original סֵפֶר “תּוֹרַת הָעוֹלׇה” לִרְמָ”א

The Rema”s unique Baroque explanation of the בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ וְהַקָּרְבָּנוֹת.

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym Auction: Original סֵפֶר "תּוֹרַת הָעוֹלׇה" לִרְמָ"א

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Three Items from the Era of Sabbatean Fights (Genazym)

Original Manuscript of סֵפֶר “שָׁרְשֵׁי שֵׁמוֹת” מֵהָרֶמֶ”ז, and two original classics from the Emden-Eibeschutz fights: לֻחוֹת עֵדוּת” וְ”סֵפֶר שִׁמּוּשׁ”

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Three Items from the Era of Sabbatean Fights (Genazym)

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Genazym Offers a חומש from Prague from the בַּעַל שׁוּ”ת תְּשׁוּבָה מֵאַהֲבָה & His Close Catholic Friend

the Austrian Censor Carolus Fischer, the only copy the Austrian courts trusted that a Jew wouldn’t lie

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym Offers a חומש from Prague from the בַּעַל שׁוּ"ת תְּשׁוּבָה מֵאַהֲבָה & His Close Catholic Friend

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Genazym Offers the Notorious Giustiniani Edition of the Rambam, a Capitalist Fight of Long Ago

Giustiniani and מהר”ם פדובה played commercial hardball against each other, with disaster to all

Rabbi Dovid Katz

Genazym Offers the Notorious Giustiniani Edition of the Rambam, a Capitalist Fight of Long Ago

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