A letter by the rabbis of Slonim, Rabbi Yoseph [Shlopfer] and Rabbi Shmuel David HaCohen Rotner. Slonim, 1894.
An authorization of unmarried status, for the "dear young man of good descent from Rabbi Shmuel son of Rabbi Shimon Sofer Stam". Signed by "Yoseph who lives here in Slonim", "Shmuel David son of Rabbi M. HaCohen Rotner".
Rabbi Yoseph Shlopfer (Otzar HaRabbanim 8660), "the genius of Dinaburg" student of Volozhin Yeshiva. Son-in-law of the renowned Rabbi Izele Charif (Yehoshua Isaac Shapira), Av Beit Din of Slonim. [He is the subject of the famous story: Rabbi Izele chose him as a son-in-law because he ran after the wagon traveling from the Volozhin Yeshiva to ask Rabbi Izele the answer to his question].
He served as Rabbi of Dretchin; in 1885 after the death of Rabbi Yoseph Reizin of Telz who served as Rabbi of Slonim he succeeded his father-in-law as Rabbi until his death in 1905. Rabbi Mordechai Ushminer was his successor as Rabbi of Slonim See attached material.
16 cm. Good condition, stains.