Auction 33 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Manuscript of Righteous Rabbi Eliyahu of Greiditz

Opening: $500
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Manuscript leaf, letter draft of Halachic responsa pertaining to laws of slaughtering (unsigned), to Rabbi Nachum, from Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher ‘Tzadik of Greiditz’. Elul, 1855.
Autographic writing with deletions and brief and lengthy additions. [Never printed].
Ga’on Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher (1796-1875), among first disciples of Rabbi Akiva Eiger in Posen. Av Beit Din of Pleszew and Greiditz. Exalted righteous Kabbalist. In his later years was famous as a ‘miracle worker’; known as “Der Greiditzer Tzadik” [=Tzadik of Greiditz].
2 pages, 20.5 cm. Fair condition, tears.
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