Lot 388
Ketubah Signed by Rabbi Dessler - London, Tevet 1945
Printed ketubah of the Adath Yisrael community in London, filled-in by hand for the wedding of the groom Refael son of R. Eliezer Posen, to the bride Shoshana daughter of R. Chaim HaLevi Eisemann. London, Tevet 1945.
With the signature of the groom: "Refael son of the late R. Eliezer Posen", and the signatures of the witnesses, R. Bamberger of Mainz ("Moshe Aryeh son of R. Yitzchak HaLevi Bamberger") and R. Dessler ("Eliyahu Eliezer son of R. Reuven Dov Dessler").
R. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892-1953), a pious Torah scholar, was one of the leading authors of musar literature in our generation, and a descendant of R. Yisrael of Salant, founder of the musar movement. A product of the Kelm yeshiva, he was the son-in-law of R. Nachum Ze'ev Ziv of Kelm. He arrived in England in 1927 and served as rabbi of Dalston, London. Among the founders of the Gateshead Kollel and of Torah institutes throughout England. In his later years, he served as mashgiach of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak. His profound lectures constructed upon the fundamentals of ethics, Kabbalah and Chassidism were published by his disciples in the book Sichot U'Maamarim, in the five volumes of Michtav Me'Eliyahu and in Sefer Zikaron Michtav MeEliyahu, which have become the basis for profound study of musar in this generation.
R. Moshe Aryeh Bamberger (1902-1960), rabbi of Mainz, founder and director of the Gateshead Jewish Boarding School (England). He was the son of R. Yitzchak Zekel Bamberger Rabbi of Bad Kissingen.
[1] leaf. 37.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Marginal tears. Some adhesive tape and adhesive tape stains.
