Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Beit Din Document by Rabbi Shlomo Auerbach, Av Beit Din of Lintshits

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A Beit Din document – an authorization of a get, [with halachic details of writing the names], handwritten and signed by Rabbi Shlomo Auerbach, Av Beit Din of Lintshits. [1888].
Signed by: "Shlomo, the son of Meir Auerbach; Pinchas HaCohen; Yochanan son of Rabbi A.".
Rabbi Shlomo Auerbach, son of the Imrei Bina, successor of his lineage as Rabbi of Lintshits (from 1873). In 1878, the people of Jerusalem begged him to succeed his father as Rabbi of Jerusalem. When the Rebbe, author of Sfat Emet, became ill, Rabbi Auerbach prayed profusely for his health and when he returned home he felt ill and died at the same moment as the Sfat Emet, on the fifth of Shvat, 1905. (See Chachmei Polin, Part 1, pgs. 363-364; and in the introduction to the book Imrei Binah – Sermons", pg. 76-77).
Official stationary, 21 cm. Good condition, stains.
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