The forthcoming auction by Kestenbaum and Company will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2013 offering rare books, manuscripts, autographed letters, ceremonial objects and graphic art.
Here are the Chabad-related items for sale:
LOT: 85 (CHASSIDISM)
Kehot, Brooklyn, New York: 1984. $300 – $300
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. Likutei Amarim Tanya. Extended edition with supplement reproducing the title-pages of all earlier editions. ff. (4), 505, (1). Original gilt-tooled boards. Thick 4to.
The 1000th Edition of the Tanya. This edition was issued in celebration of the 82nd birthday of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch.
LOT: 393 KAGAN, ANSHIE
New York, 2013: $2,000 – $3,000
A Study in Color #770. Oil on canvas. Signed. 60 x 60 inches.
Large scale quadruple depiction of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-94). The artist, Anshie Kagan (born Boston, 1984) is strongly influenced by the Pop Art Movement and specifically Andy Warhol’s iconic images of American celebrities.
Kagan’s ironic and often black artwork incorporates current cultural, technological and social themes, such a his “Modern Day Commandments” – two columns of five QR codes representing the Biblical Decalogue.
Another example of his clever plays on cultural references are his portraits featuring ultra-Orthodox rabbinic leaders of the 20th and 21st centuries, depicted on bright or psychedelic patterned backgrounds – the present canvas being a particularly fine example.
LOT: 349 SCHNEERSON, YOSEPH YITZCHAK
29th Sivan, Brooklyn, New York: 1944. $1,200 – $1,800
Typed Letter Signed, in Hebrew and Yiddish, on letterhead, written to Moshe HaKohen Shayevitz, communal leader of Chabad Chassidim in Chicago. One page.
A most unusual and heartfelt letter in which the Frierdiker Rebbe (Sixth Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, 1880-1950) expresses his innermost feelings as to the purpose of his flight from Europe and resettlement in the United States.
“The propagation and dissemination of Torah and Yirath Shamayim in the spirit of Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch is the mission which Divine Providence has placed upon me – to make America into a place committed to Torah,” he writes. “G-d has given me the strength to execute and implement this mission. Help me with this and you will truly strengthen my health…and will (in turn) be blessed with an abundance of blessings ‘Minefesh ad Basar’.”
LOT: 350 SCHNEERSON, MENACHEM MENDEL.
Nisan, Bnei Brak: 1992. $3,000 – $4,000
Typed Letter Signed, in Hebrew, written to the Lubavitcher Rebbe and signed by 7 leading Chassidic Rabbis including: R. Aharon HaCohen Rosenfeld of Pinsk-Karlin, R. Yisrael Chaim of Spinka, R. Yaakov of Zidichov, R. Moshe Yaakov Weiss, R. Meir Halberstam, the son of the Rebbe of Biala and R. Tzvi HaCohen.
It indicates the esteem in which the last Lubavitcher Rebbe (Seventh Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, 1902-1994). was held by the Chassidic world as a whole.
Many of the signatories add here their mother’s name as is customary when requesting a blessing and writing to a Rebbe. They sent greetings for the Rebbe’s 90th birthday, wishes for good health along with lengthy blessing to continue to “enlighten the eyes of tens of thousands of Israel.”
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I really want that picture of the Rebbe…
“Happy birthday wish to the Lubavitcher Rebbe by seven leading Chasidic rebbes”. Unfortunately , I have never heard of any of these ” leading Rebbes” . I highly doubt any of these Rebbelahs had more than a handful of followers .
If you look up past sales you will fnd lot of Chabad collection from the Rivkin family.