Some 20 long letters of Torah thoughts, from the archive of R. Chaim Berlin, sent from rabbis and Torah scholars in Russia, Lithuania and Poland. Ca. 1900-1906.
Among the writers: his nephew R. Elazar Sheinfeld; R. Baruch Essman of Kiev (author of Chad VeChalak, who writes blessings for the New Year and Torah teachings that he said at the time his daughter gave birth); R. Matityahu Bornstein posek in Zolotonosha; R. Zvi Yehuda Mamluk (author of Abir HaRo’im); R. Michael Margolin; R. Shemayahu Rabbi of Bershad; R. Chanoch Yehuda of Białystok; R. Yitzchak son of R. Shraga posek in Tula; R. Meir Levine of Svislach; R. Avraham Matityahu Chalfan, R. Yisrael Bunim Zeidintzig of Siedlce; and others.
The recipient of the letters: R. Chaim Berlin (1832-1912), foremost Torah scholar in his generation, was an illustrious Torah figure of Lithuania and Jerusalem. Eldest son of the Netziv of Volozhin. He served as chief rabbi of Moscow, and for a while as yeshiva dean and rabbi in Volozhin, Kobryn and Yelisavetgrad (Kropyvnytskyi). His Torah influence spread throughout Russia and the entire world (the four-part Responsa Nishmat Chaim, published in Jerusalem in 2008, contains his correspondence with rabbis and Torah scholars throughout the world, including Russia, Galicia, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Iraq and Eretz Israel. Most of the rabbis who wrote the letters in this collection are not listed in the index of R. Chaim Berlin’s correspondants, which appears at the end of Nishmat Chaim on Yoreh Deah). He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1906 and soon became one of the leading rabbinic authorities in the city.
Approx. 20 letters (some 36 leaves and postcards). Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.