12 Pages of Tzemach Tzedek's Handwriting Disappeared; 3 Were Found

two pages kadesh of the was returned today to the library of a good kasid kabad the central loavich library from the Russian military archive in Moscow. The Russian military archive adorned pages from the Kabad collection in Moscow to the Kabad library. Not yet. We still hope that should be very speedily, but not yet. So how was these pages from the military Russian military archive returned to Kabad library today? For that I will have to tell you the long journey of these two pages. in the last 83 years. Starting in the winter of 1940 to Shin in the collection of the Freed in Atodsk until today when it came back, how it was in the Fender's collection and then how it went to the American embassy in Warso. And then how it went to the German Nazi army and then how it went to the Russian army and then how it went to the military archive of the Russian army in Moscow and then how the curator of the military archive sold them to one of the book dealers and then how this book dealer tried to sell it in auction in Israel and then finally how one of the Kabad purchased it back and returned it today to the central Kabad library when the Fred KB was saved from Nazi occupied warso in the winter of Tshin 1940. He stored three large crates of manuscripts, mainly Soviet Kadesh of the Rab in the American embassy in Warso for safekeeping till they will have a chance to bring it with them to the states and return it to the Rebe in New York. It was there for about two years till the American army went into war against the Nazis. Then the Nazis confiscated the American embassy in Warso and everything that is in it including these three crates of manuscripts of Kabad. They divided it into two parts. the larger part several hundred of volumes of manuscripts in Hal and they didn't find a special interest in that and they put it for safekeeping in the public library in Warso. Several boxes in all about 25,000 pages. They felt they have some meaning for the history of the Jewish nation. They took it with them and they included it into the museum that they prepared for the Jewish nation. It was in their hands for several years. till the end of the war where they were defeated by the American Russian Russian army. The Russian army took this material of the museum. They took it with them to Moscow and they stored it in the milit military of archive in Moscow where for over 50 years no one knew what's there in the end of the 20th century. We were notified that there are several boxes in that archive from the Kabad Rabiat Kadesh. We tried to convince the Anrussian government to return it to us. It didn't help. So we approached them with the federal court in Washington that gave out a decree they should return it all. Till today we still didn't succeed them to return to us the material not from the general library and not from the military archive yet. So at least they agreed to copy this part of the archive for us for a high price of more than a dollar for each page. The copy this Zerox copies of about 25,000 pages are in this central library Kabad library since then in several years later in the year of 209 N we have edited and published a volume of the spansa of the according to this manuscripts that is still in Moscow that we have copies one of these volumes that was in the military archives and we have the copy of it. We gave it the number of 1,021 includes hala and respans of the in his handwriting. But there are 12 special pages in that volume. There are pages of Shahot of Rabonim that sent a letter a question to the and on that page of the Shil that responded with his handwriting. Interesting that on the Shil that he received he wrote the answer and five afterwards it was bound in a volume together with his handwriting of other parts of Halaka and Raspansa. In that same year 2009, we were notified that 12 pages of this volume of Kadesh of the was torn out from the original bound manuscript by the curator of the military archive, the Russian military archive in Moscow. and sold them to a book dealer. [Music] We approached the court that gave the order that they should be returned to us by the book dealer, but we didn't succeed yet. [Music] He sold it in auction. [Music] And two of these pages of these 12 pages was purchased by Abadid and returned today to the central Kabad library. What are the other 10 pages that was torn out of the original handwriting ban volume and sold to a book dealer? that he sold it in auction to collectors. We still don't know. We hope, we really hope that very speedily these pages together with the whole collection of and manuscripts of the Raim that are still in Russia should be happily returned to the Kabad Center Library, the library of Agudas Kabad.