Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Slonim Chassidism – Two Legal Documents – Signatures of the Rebbes Birkat Avraham and Netivot Shalom

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• Authorization and Power of Attorney for an attorney, signed by Rebbe Avraham Weinberg of Slonim, author of Birkat Avraham and his son-in-law Rebbe Shalom Noach Barzovsky, author of Netivot Shalom, with other signatures of Chassidic elders. [Jerusalem, 1965?].
• Declaration concerning the synagogue of Slonim Chassidim in Jerusalem, with the signature of Rebbe Avraham Weinberg author of Birkat Avraham. Jerusalem, 1965.
Rebbe Avraham Weinberg the third, author of Birkat Avraham (1889-1981) was born in Tiberias to Rabbi Noach, grandson of the first Rabbi Avraham Weinberg, author of Yesod Ha'Avodah, a dean of the Or Torah Yeshiva in Tiberias and one of the founders of the Charedi education system in Eretz Israel. After the Holocaust, the elders of the Slonim Chassidic community asked him to serve as Rebbe but he refused and was active in appointing his friend Rabbi Mordechai Chaim Slonim. Only after the death of Rebbe Mottel Slonimer in 1954, did Rebbe Avraham [who was already 65 years old] agree to lead the Slonim community. He then moved to Jerusalem, and led his Chassidim for 27 years. He was a member of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah.
His son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Noach Berezovsky (1911-2000) was born in Baranovichi and studied there in the Slonim Yeshiva headed by Rabbi Moshe Meidner. From a young age, he became renowned as a holy Torah scholar. In 1936, he ascended to Eretz Israel. He served as head of the Beit Avraham Yeshiva in Jerusalem and from 1981 as Rebbe of Slonim. One of the heads of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah and of the Chinuch Atzmai education system. Wrote the Netivot Shalom series.
2 leaves, 33 cm. good condition. Stains, folding marks. File holes.
Hassidism - Manuscripts and Letters, Signatures and Dedications
Hassidism - Manuscripts and Letters, Signatures and Dedications