Auction 46 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Kvittel Sent to the Chazon Ish by Rabbi Wosner – With Handwritten Inscriptions by the Chazon Ish
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Kvittel [note] sent to the Chazon Ish by Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner, Author of Shevet Halevi.
Handwritten and signed by Rabbi Wosner, who writes to "…Author of the Chazon Ish" and requests that he pray for his relative the wife of R' Zalman Wosner of London.
On verso is a name to mention in prayer in the handwriting of the Chazon Ish (Leah bat Devorah), and a sketch, apparently regarding a Torah discussion.
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner (1913-2015) author of Shevet HaLevi, a leading Torah authority of the past generation. Born in Vienna, disciple of Rabbi Shmuel David Unger Av Beit Din of Nitra and of Rabbi Yosef Elimelech Kahane Av Beit Din of Ungvar (both perished in the Holocaust) and later a close disciple of Rabbi Meir Shapira at the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva. In 1939, he ascended to Eretz Israel with his wife. First he settled in Jerusalem serving the leading rabbis of that time and soon became one of most outstanding Torah scholars and was appointed Rabbi and posek of the Geulah neighborhood. In 1947, he moved to Bnei Brak to serve as Rabbi and Av Beit Din of the Zichron Meir neighborhood. He was recommended for this position by the Chazon Ish who already discerned the greatness and strengths of the young man and foresaw his future. After a short while, he was appointed Rabbi of the Chug Chatam Sofer communities in the city and eventually Rabbi Wosner was celebrated as a leading halachic authority accepted by all circles. He answered thousands of halachic queries which were printed in the eleven volumes of his book Shevet HaLevi responsa.
17 cm. Good-fair condition. Folding marks and stains.
Handwritten and signed by Rabbi Wosner, who writes to "…Author of the Chazon Ish" and requests that he pray for his relative the wife of R' Zalman Wosner of London.
On verso is a name to mention in prayer in the handwriting of the Chazon Ish (Leah bat Devorah), and a sketch, apparently regarding a Torah discussion.
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner (1913-2015) author of Shevet HaLevi, a leading Torah authority of the past generation. Born in Vienna, disciple of Rabbi Shmuel David Unger Av Beit Din of Nitra and of Rabbi Yosef Elimelech Kahane Av Beit Din of Ungvar (both perished in the Holocaust) and later a close disciple of Rabbi Meir Shapira at the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva. In 1939, he ascended to Eretz Israel with his wife. First he settled in Jerusalem serving the leading rabbis of that time and soon became one of most outstanding Torah scholars and was appointed Rabbi and posek of the Geulah neighborhood. In 1947, he moved to Bnei Brak to serve as Rabbi and Av Beit Din of the Zichron Meir neighborhood. He was recommended for this position by the Chazon Ish who already discerned the greatness and strengths of the young man and foresaw his future. After a short while, he was appointed Rabbi of the Chug Chatam Sofer communities in the city and eventually Rabbi Wosner was celebrated as a leading halachic authority accepted by all circles. He answered thousands of halachic queries which were printed in the eleven volumes of his book Shevet HaLevi responsa.
17 cm. Good-fair condition. Folding marks and stains.
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