Lot 433
Three Letters from Rabbi Yehoshua Segal Deutsch
Letters from the Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Segal Deutsch. Braşov, 1939.
The letters were sent to a friend of his father in law’s, Rabbi Chaim Leib Lerner from New York [more about him in item 434]. Letters filled with content, words of Torah and matters relative to the printing and publishing of his father’s books (the Haggadah of “Kol Yehuda" from the Belz Admorim, “Ahavat Chaim” and more), blessings for the festivals and other topics. In two of the letters, the name of the son of the "Arugat Ha-bosem" is mentioned.
Rabbi Yehoshua Segal Deutsch (1910-1990), author of the “Beit Ha-Lachmi” is the son of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Deutsch from Mako (Hungary) [more about him in item 518] and the son in law of Rabbi David Shperber, Av Beit Din of Braşov. Learned in the Chust Yeshiva directed by Rabbi Dushinsky and in the Kirali Yeshiva with Rabbi Yo'el Teitelbaum.
He filled the position of “Junior Rabbi” at Braşov and served as the Rabbi of various congregations in the Diaspora. He was connected to the Belz and Vizhnitz Admorim. After the Holocaust, he emigrated to Jerusalem with his father in law. In Jerusalem, he was appointed Av Beit Din of Katamon. He was the first Rosh Yeshiva of Belz in Israel. He founded the “Ma’ayan Ha-Chochma” institution for the publication of holy books.
Three big postcards filled with dense writings. Good condition. Romanian postmarks from the years 1938-1939.
