Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Letter from the Chazon Ish to Rabbi Yaakov Landau – Polemic of Halachic Measures

Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,125
Including buyer's premium

Brief letter, two lines handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz the Chazon Ish. [Bnei Brak, 1947].
Addressed to R. Yaakov Landau rabbi of Bnei Brak. The Chazon Ish requests to borrow the book She'erit Yehuda.
Handwritten inscription [by the recipient?]: "27th Sivan 1947".
The Chazon Ish presumably required the book since he was studying the topic of halachic measures at that time, and was in the midst of the polemic with R. Chaim Na'eh on this topic (see Hebrew sidebar).
[1] leaf. 21X7 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding marks.


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