Lot 470
A Letter to Rabbi Shlomo Kluger by Rabbi Shalom Landau
A letter by Rabbi Shalom Landau to Rabbi Shlomo Kluger and his son Rabbi Avraham Binyamin. Lvov, 1864.
The letter concerns a match, of a young man of Lvov that Rabbi Shlomo Kluger requests that Rabbi Shalom Landau inquire about: "I have hurried and not tarried… to fulfill the will of that tzaddik… and yesterday I asked to send for the young man in question… and I have found him to be extremely nice looking and talented to absorb Torah and wisdom and fear of Heaven like all other youngsters his age… and although he is yet young about 15 years old, he is short and perhaps with passing time he will yet grow and become a man".
Rabbi Shalom Landau of Lvov, is mentioned in the responsa Sho’el UMeshiv (Tanina, Part 4, 173) by the title "The Charif (sharp) Rabbi Shalom Landau".
29 cm. Bluish thin stationary. Good-fair condition, stains, minor tears in right margins.
