Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Letter of Semicha - Rabbi Moshe Chaim Greenfeld, Rabbi of Sajószentpéter
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Autograph letter of semicha signed by R. Moshe Chaim Greenfeld Rabbi of the Sajószentpéter (Hungary) community, 1939.
Semicha "Yoreh Yoreh Yadin Yadin" of R. Zalman Sofer of Vienna, son of R. Shimon Sofer Rabbi of Erlau who fled Vienna from the Nazis and requested a rabbinical position to "expand Torah institutions".
R. Moshe Chaim Greenfeld (1888-1944), author of Chaim Birtzono, an outstanding Torah scholar, disciple of the Levushei Mordechai and the Da'at Sofer. Son-in-law and successor of R. Chaim Fried Rabbi of Sajószentpéter. He was considered a leading rabbi in his region, an expert posek and eminent head of yeshiva in his city (R. Yochanan Sofer of Erlau attested that his father the Yad Sofer said to him that he can clarify all abstruse halachic matters and Talmudic treatises by asking the Sajószentpéter Rabbi. During the Holocaust, he continued studying Torah and serving G-d even in the Ghetto (after he understood that he was on his way to Olam Haba) and he serenely carried on writing Torah novellae on Tractate Zevachim until he was deported together with his family and community in the month of Sivan 1944. His novellae and writings were printed by his disciples and members of his family that survived, in the book Chaim Birtzono (Jerusalem, 1982).
The recipient of the semicha is R. Shlomo Zalman Sofer-Schreiber (1896-1965), son of R. Shimon Sofer Rabbi of Erlau, author of Hitorerut Teshuva and grandson of the author of Ktav Sofer. An exceptional Torah scholar who all his life evaded a rabbinic position in spite of his Torah proficiency and knowledge. In 1938, after the Anschluss [annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany], he escaped Vienna to the home of his illustrious father in Erlau and from there moved to Eretz Israel before the Holocaust. He lived in Bnei Brak and helped establish the Ohel Shimon Erlau Yeshiva headed by his nephew the Erlau Rebbe. His writing were printed in the book Maharaz Sofer - Responsa and Novellae", (Jerusalem, 1969).
Official stationery, 29.5 cm. Fair-good condition, wear and tears.
Semicha "Yoreh Yoreh Yadin Yadin" of R. Zalman Sofer of Vienna, son of R. Shimon Sofer Rabbi of Erlau who fled Vienna from the Nazis and requested a rabbinical position to "expand Torah institutions".
R. Moshe Chaim Greenfeld (1888-1944), author of Chaim Birtzono, an outstanding Torah scholar, disciple of the Levushei Mordechai and the Da'at Sofer. Son-in-law and successor of R. Chaim Fried Rabbi of Sajószentpéter. He was considered a leading rabbi in his region, an expert posek and eminent head of yeshiva in his city (R. Yochanan Sofer of Erlau attested that his father the Yad Sofer said to him that he can clarify all abstruse halachic matters and Talmudic treatises by asking the Sajószentpéter Rabbi. During the Holocaust, he continued studying Torah and serving G-d even in the Ghetto (after he understood that he was on his way to Olam Haba) and he serenely carried on writing Torah novellae on Tractate Zevachim until he was deported together with his family and community in the month of Sivan 1944. His novellae and writings were printed by his disciples and members of his family that survived, in the book Chaim Birtzono (Jerusalem, 1982).
The recipient of the semicha is R. Shlomo Zalman Sofer-Schreiber (1896-1965), son of R. Shimon Sofer Rabbi of Erlau, author of Hitorerut Teshuva and grandson of the author of Ktav Sofer. An exceptional Torah scholar who all his life evaded a rabbinic position in spite of his Torah proficiency and knowledge. In 1938, after the Anschluss [annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany], he escaped Vienna to the home of his illustrious father in Erlau and from there moved to Eretz Israel before the Holocaust. He lived in Bnei Brak and helped establish the Ohel Shimon Erlau Yeshiva headed by his nephew the Erlau Rebbe. His writing were printed in the book Maharaz Sofer - Responsa and Novellae", (Jerusalem, 1969).
Official stationery, 29.5 cm. Fair-good condition, wear and tears.
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