Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Mechirat Chmetz Bills and Authorizations, Rabbi Yosef Rosen of Dvinsk (the Rogatchover)

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Collection of Bills of selling Chametz (In Hebrew and Russian), permits and signatures of the sellers and the buyers. Done by the Ga'on of Rogatchov Rabbi Yosef Rosen, Rabbi of Dvinsk (Latvia) during the years 1924-1933.
The name of the Rav "Rabbi Yosef (Bentzion) ben Ephraim Zissel" is mentioned in many authorizations. Part of the lists are in his handwriting and with his signature - "Yosef Rosen Rav".
The sellers are the people of Dvinsk and other cities, that entrusted their sale of Chametz to the Rabbi of Dvinsk. The sellers are "holders of shops, pharmacies, post offices, lumber merchants, wheat merchants…"
Interesting permit of 1923 by Rabbi "Moshe Mordechai Epshtein messanger of the inhabitants of Peterburg known as Leningrad and inhabitants of the surrounding villages".
The known Ga'on, Rabbi Yosef Rosen, author of "Tzofnat Pa'aneach", rabbi of Dvinsk (Denenburg) in Latvia. Born in 1857 to a family of Chasidei Chabad in Rogatchov, near Babruysk. Student of the Maharil Diskin and Rabbi Yoshe Ber Soloveichik, author of Beit Ha-Levi. In 1888 was appointed Av-Beit-Din of the Adas Has'fardim (Chassidim who pray in Nusach S'fard) in Dvinsk. Died in 1936.
About 15 large leaves, various conditions, good to poor.
Letters
Letters