Yamaha Taiwan, model G-150A. With accompanying capo and neck-strap. <<* With:>> Original carrying-case.

Shlomo Carlebach (1925-94) was an immensely prolific composer, influential singer and unique spiritual leader. Although his roots lay within the Orthodox world of the traditional yeshiva, with unique charisma, Carlebach branched out to create his own personal space combining Chassidic-style warmth and intense personal interaction. He impacted an extraordinary variety of people worldwide, encountering them in a diverse range of dynamic song-filled religious services, enthusiastic performance spaces and ecumenical retreats. <<Provenance:>> This guitar was given by Shlomo Carlebach in 1979 to Rabbi Yehoshua Book, a long-treasured friend and fellow music enthusiast and composer. Rabbi Book was born into and remains to this day a member of Jerusalem’s community of Modzitz Chassidim, a dynasty famed for being a repository of much original Chassidic music. R. Book first met “Reb Shloyme” as a young child in the early 1960’s and in the accompanying written testimony relates of the deep spiritual relationship the two shared. When Reb Shlomo presented to Rabbi Book this guitar from which he had played from for so many years, he remarked: “Without my guitar I am bereft, I am as a Guf Beli Neshama (“a body without a soul.”). <<Accompanied by:>> Letters of authenticity from both Rebbetzin Chanita Raz and from the late Rabbi Yitzchak Izak “Itzik” Eisenstadt (Reb Shlomo’s “assistant brother.”) The letters specify that the guitar had belonged to Reb Shlomo and he passed it onto R. Yehoshua Book. The guitar is being sold to raise charitable funds associated with Rabbi Book’s communal activities throughout Israel. <<An extraordinary opportunity to possess an iconic item, uniquely and so very personally associated with the multi-talented, counter-cultural Chassidic persona of the late Reb Shlomo Carlebach.