Lot 442
Letter by Rabbi Yitzchak Teomim of Premishla
Letter with New Year wishes by Rabbi Yitzchak Teomim, to Rabbi Moshe Larberbaum. Premishla, Erev Rosh HaShana, 1908.
The letter was written on a stub of authorization for receiving registered mail, of the delivery of an etrog. He writes to his relative [both grandsons of the "Chavat Da'at"]: "I express my thanks for his good intentions, although the action will not attain the goal, since… because of being shaken on the way, its look has changed and it has dots and bruises which are not fitting for blessing and is not worth the damage of all the trouble you took…".
Rabbi Ya'akov Yitzchak Teomim (1863-1941), son of Rabbi Avraham Rabbi of Butchatch, author of "Chesed L'Avraham". Disciple of Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Orenstein and Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon Itinga. Had contact through halachic responsa with the leading Torah scholars of his times in Galicia and is quoted in the following books of responsa: Harei Besamim, Eretz Zvi, Beit Yitchak (to whom he sent many responses and who writes of him "sharp minded and fluent in all areas of Torah") etc. One of the leading influential community heads of Premishla (Przemyśl). One of the founders of "Agudat Yisrael" in the Katowice Conference and president of the movement in Galicia. His son in law is Rabbi Shmuel Babad Rabbi of Lvov.
4.5X12.5 cm. C. 20 lines. Good condition.
