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Two Letters by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer to Rabbi Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan) – Jerusalem, 1936 and 1937
Two letters handwritten and signed by R. Isser Zalman Meltzer, dean of Etz Chaim yeshiva. Jerusalem, Sivan 1936; Adar 1937.
Addressed to R. Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan), son of the Netziv (who was R. Isser Zalman's teacher at the Volozhin yeshiva). The first letter deals with income of the Union of Rabbis by the emissaries sent to Africa [South Africa], R. Yedidyah Goroniesky and R. Yoel Yochnin. The second letter deals with editing and printing Mishpat Kohen [printed at the time by the Society for Publishing the Books of R. Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook].
R. Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870-1954), author of Even HaAzel, disciple of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin yeshiva, Rabbi and yeshiva dean of Slutsk. Immigrated to Jerusalem in 1924 and was appointed head dean in the Etz Chaim yeshiva. One of the heads of Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah.
[2] leaves. Official stationery. 14 / 28 cm. Good condition. Filing holes. Tears in filing holes of second letter, affecting text.
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