Four Letters concerning an unordained rabbinic authority in Trier

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 264
(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Four Letters concerning an unordained rabbinic authority in Trier

Hebrew and Judeo-German

Alsace: 1806

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $1,800
The letters are addressed to Rabbis Mayer Charleville and Joseph Guggenheim of the Metz Beth-Din; they hail from Trier, Nijmegen (Holland), and Mayence (Mainz, Germany). Two of the letters are from R. Hirz Scheyer of Mainz (d. 1822), author of Torei Zahav, a kabblistic commentary to Song of Songs. According to Scholem, Torei Zahav, published in Mainz in 1875, was the last book by a German kabbalist to be printed. G. Scholem, Kabbalah (1974), p. 85