Auction 95 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Letters and Manuscripts, Engravings and Jewish Ceremonial Objects
Three letters on postcards by R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (author of Seridei Esh). Montreux (Switzerland), 1953-1954.
Sent to his friend Dr. Shmuel Greenberg in Tel Aviv (chairman of the Tel Aviv Council of Religion, formerly a director of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin). In the three letters, R. Weinberg addresses various technical details related to reparations and payments from Germany. He considers and debates filling in the forms, and notes various details relating to his stay in Berlin before the war and his position before the war as yeshiva dean and rector of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin.
At the close of the 1954 letter, he suggests Dr. Greenberg could edit a memorial volume for the Seminary.
R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (1884-1966), famous posek and Torah scholar, and a leading disciple of the Alter of Slabodka. He served as head of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, during the Holocaust as president of the Union of Rabbis in the Warsaw ghetto, and after the Holocaust as yeshiva dean in Montreux. His books include Responsa Seridei Esh and more.
The recipient of the letters, R. Dr. Shmuel Greenberg (1880-1959), graduate of the Pressburg yeshiva and the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, where he later served as lecturer and director. In 1936, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he served as chairman of the Council of Religion in Tel Aviv, member of the national Mizrachi board of directors, member of the Organization for Refugee Rabbis and founder of Torah and educational institutions in Eretz Israel.
3 postcards. Approx. 15x10 cm. Good condition. Stains and some wear. Postage stamps and postmarks.
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Letter of R. Gershon Liebman, a head of the Novardok yeshiva movement. Paris, 1972.
Typewritten on official stationery of the Or Yosef yeshiva in France, and signed by its dean R. Gershon Liebman.
The letter was sent to Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum. R. Gershon reports to the Rebbe on establishing institutions in France to rescue destitute families from Eretz Israel from missionaries. R. Gershon adds that this stirred up a commotion in Israel, with the matter reaching the Knesset, but their opposition was unsuccessful.
R. Gershon Liebman (1905-1997), founder and leader of the Or Yosef network of Novardok yeshivot in France, and one of the greatest Novardok musar leaders of all times. R. Gershon arranged underground musar yeshivot in the ghettos and camps throughout the Holocaust, and established a Novardok yeshiva in Bergen-Belsen immediately after the war ended. In 1948, the yeshiva moved to France, where it expanded to a network of over 40 Torah and educational institutions.
[1] leaf, official stationery. Approx. 27 cm. Good condition. Folds.
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Assorted collection of 14 letters on postcards, handwritten by R. Chaim Kanievsky to various nationwide correspondents. Bnei Brak, [1997-2001].
Thirteen letters containing short, plain answers to various questions on Torah and halachic customs. In one of the letters the Rabbi thanks the correspondent for his comments [on his book Derech Emunah]. In another letter sent to a correspondent in Brachfeld (Modi'in Illit), he simply tells the asker to visit him when he is in Bnei Brak [apparently the question was too complicated to answer on a postcard].
All of the postcards contain R. Chaim Kanievsky's name as sender, written by R. Chaim, and most also contain the name and address of the recipient in R. Chaim Kanievsky's handwriting.
14 postcards. 14.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and postage stamps.
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Large collection of letters sent to the Ezrat Torah organization in the United States and its director R. Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, by yeshiva deans, rabbis and public figures from all over the world: Israel, United States and various countries, 20th century.
Includes letters from the following rabbis:
• R. Yosef Eliyahu Henkin. • R. Gershon Liebman, dean of Or Yosef yeshiva in France. • R. Eliyahu Eliezer Mishkovsky, yeshiva dean in Kfar Chassidim. • R. Chaim Milikovsky, dean of Amshinov yeshiva in Jerusalem. • R. Yitzchak Arieli, author of Einayim LaMishpat, a Jerusalem rabbi. • R. Moshe Aryeh Freund, dean of Yitav Lev Satmar yeshiva. • R. Menachem Ernster, dean of Vizhnitz yeshiva. • R. Zalman Rotberg, dean of Beit Meir yeshiva in Bnei Brak. • R. Yechezkel Partzovitz, a dean of the Tiferet Tzvi yeshiva in Jerusalem. • R. Eliyahu Zlotnik and R. Yaakov Yosef Herman of the Heichal HaTorah yeshiva in Jerusalem. • R. Refael Binyamin Levin, dean of Beit Aryeh yeshiva in Jerusalem. • R. Bentzion Lichtman, Rabbi of Beirut. • R. Yehoshua Zelig Diskin, Rabbi of Pardes Chanah. • R. Baruch Shimon Schneerson, dean of Tshebin yeshiva. • R. Eliyahu Shmuel Shmerler, dean of Sanz yeshiva in Netanya. • R. Shalom Eisenberger, Rabbi of Kiryat Sanz in Jerusalem. • R. Yosef Eliyahu Rakovsky, a rabbi of Miami. • R. Mordechai Menachem Burstein, Rabbi of Kansas City, Missouri. • R. Mallen Galinsky of Coney Island, New York. • R. Yosef Feldman, a rabbi of Baltimore. • R. Nissim Toledano, dean of She'erit Yosef yeshiva in Be'er Yaakov. • R. Yaakov Horowitz, dean of Ofakim yeshiva. • R. Shmuel Aryeh Levin, dean of Chafetz Chaim yeshiva in Buenos Aires. • R. Avraham Yitzchak Ulman, head of Tarbitza Kollel in Jerusalem. • R. Eliezer Baerland, dean of Shuvu Banim yeshiva. • R. Dov Eichenstein, a dean of Itri yeshiva; and many more letters.
Over 130 letters. Size Varies. Overall good condition.
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