Collection of letters, printed leaves and receipts, from public institutes in Tiberias, Safed and Jerusalem, from the years 1953-1958.
• Numerous letters signed by Rabbi Asher Zeev Werner [Ashkenazi rabbi of Tiberias], Rabbi Avraham Weinberg [Rebbe of Slonim, author of "Birkat Avraham"] and Rabbi David Munzberg. Most of the letters are in Yiddish. [A note is attached to one of the letters on which it is written that our custom is not to place a Kvitel for the deceased, only to study Mishnayot, Azkara and Kadish]. • Receipts and a letter handwritten by Rabbi Meir Vaaknin [Sephardi rabbi of Tiberias]. • Letter and receipts from Yeshivat "Beit Avraham – Slonim" Jerusalem.
• Letters and receipts from Safed: letter from Rabbi Isaac Adler, on behalf of "Talmud Torah" of the Rebbe of Klausenburg. Letter from Rabbi Yitzchak Kleinman, in the name of the Yeshivah disciples "Yeshivat Maharitz Margarethen – in Beit Yossef, Safed". Receipts from the committee of "Chevra Kadisha HaKlalit, leAdat HaAshkenazit". One receipt is for a "donation to fix the roof of HaAri Mikveh".
About 27 letters, receipts and printed leaves. Size and condition varies.

Archive of letters, composed of dozens of letters and postcards, New Year cards and various paper items. Sent to Jerusalem, to Rabbi Zvi Moskowitz. C. 1950s-1960s.
The collection contains many letters by rabbis and rebbes in Eretz Israel. Most of the letters are about printing and purchase of books. The recipient is Rabbi Zvi Moskowitz – The Printer from Margarethen (c. 1900-1910 – 1983), an exceptional Torah scholar, Chassid and Kabbalist, disciple of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Weinberger Av Beit Din of Margarethen. Close to the Belz and Mukacheve Rebbes, and the Nadvorne and the Kumrana Rebbes, editor and author. He printed books in the city of Margarethen (Romania) between 1937-1947 and ascended to Jerusalem in 1947, there he printed and sold books. Authored dozens of books. Edited and published over 300 issues of the Torah compilation Otzrot Yerushalayim during 1956-1983. He was an authority on examining and editing Torah literature [he was the head editor of the Da'at Sofer books by the Rabbi of Pressburg], and he edited the novellae and books of many Hungarian rabbis and rebbes in Eretz Israel.
Among the writers: Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Tirnauer of Sefad, Av Beit Din Schotz [ author of Tal Orot, father-in-law of the Nadvorne Rebbe in Safed] – (9 letters); Rebbe Eliezer Ze'ev Rosenbaum of Rachów (2 letters and a wedding invitation); Rabbi Shmuel Meir HaCohen Hollander [Rabbi in Tschernowitz and later in Tel Aviv, author of the Shem Cohen res] – (4 letters); Rabbi Avraham Baruch Rosenberg Av Beit Din of Solitza and Gamzu (7 letters); Rabbi David ben Zion Klein Av Beit Din of Yesodot; Rabbi Yeshaya Sneiblag Av Beit Din of Deyzh; Rabbi Asher Ze'ev Werner Av Beit Din of Tiberias; Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Diskin Av Beit Din of Pardess Chana, (6 letters); Rabbi Bezalel Stern [author of B'tzel HaChochma] (2 letters); Rabbi Yehoshua Segal Deutch Av Beit Din of Montevideo and Katamon (2 letters); Rabbi David Wein Av Beit Din of Holon; Rabbi Yisrael Aryeh Zalmanowitz Av Beit Din of Bergen-Belsen and Yavneh (2 letters); letters from the home of the Kretchnif Rebbe in Kiryat Ata; invitations to meetings of the Niturei Karta signed by Rabbi Amram Blau; calling card of Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Kopychyntsi with handwritten additions (perhaps his own); etc.
Approximately 90 paper items, more than 80 letters. Varied size and condition, good-fair to poor. Some letters have major moisture damages.

Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael Kanievsky – the Steipler, to Rabbi Binyamin Mendelson Ga'avad of Komemiyut. Bnei Brak, 1962.
In the letter, the Steipler mentions the question regarding Moshav Komemiyut brought to him by Rabbi Shlomo Lorentz. He writes, "From my lowly state, I have not found any heter to permit this, neither from legal authorities nor from fear of stealing. Nevertheless, I also cannot prohibit this, and someone greater shall rule, and I will eliminate myself from resolving this question". On the margin of the letter he adds: "At the time Rabbi Shlomo Lorentz came to me, I saw certain sides of the matter, but after studying the subject, it seems that they do not have a real halachic basis".
The Rabbi of Komemiyut – Rabbi Binyamin Mendelson (1904-1979), used to consult the Chazon Ish and Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk and the Tshebin Rav on halachic topics which concerned public issues. This letter was written in 1962. Evidently after the death of the Chazon Ish and the Brisker Rav, Rabbi Mendelson sent this question to the Steipler, Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899-1985) but he refused to rule and referred the question to "someone greater" [apparently referring to the Tshebin Rav whom the Steipler highly esteemed].
Official stationery, 23 cm. Approximately 14 written lines. Good condition.

A collection of letters, concerning the polemic surrounding the marriage of Rabbi Amram Blau with the proselyte Ruth Ben-David – the responsum of Rabbi Amram Blau to the Badatz Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem about their opposition to his marriage and agitated letters from her to the Ra'avad Rabbi David Jungreis. [Jerusalem, 1965].
• Four large pages of a responsum in the handwriting of Rabbi Amram Blau in which Rabbi Amram explains that no halachic problem exists in his marrying a young woman and he protests the claim that this step diminishes his honor and is a desecration of G-d's name. On the contrary, it is a great mitzvah to draw a proselyte near.
• Letter (in Yiddish) handwritten and signed by Ruth Ben-David to the Ra'avad Rabbi David Jungreis in which she writes about the events and expresses her pain on what is being done to her.
• Another letter (in Yiddish) handwritten and signed by Ruth Ben-David to Rabbi David Jungreis, in which she agitatedly complains that her "blood is being spilled" and she asks if it is permissible to cause such pain to a proselyte!
• Open letter against the pursuit of Rabbi Amram Blau – proclamation (stencil printing), by Rabbi Eliyahu Weinstein.
One of the events that stirred the emotions of the Charedi public in Jerusalem was the polemic surrounding the marriage of Rabbi Amram Blau to the proselyte Ruth Ben-David. Rabbi Amram, who at the time was a widower close to 70 years old was about to marry Ruth Ben-David, a French proselyte who was more than 20 years younger than him. Ben-David was involved in the concealment of the boy Yosse'le Shuchmacher and in smuggling him out of the country. During that time, she became acquainted with the population of the Yishuv HaYashan and she wished to join this closed community, but this led to sharp opposition from the people affiliated with the Niturei Karta and the Eda HaCharedit. The disciples and sons of Rabbi Amram considered his marriage to Ruth Ben-David to be a diminishment of his status. The rabbis of the Eda HaCharedit also opposed his marriage on halachic grounds of the marriage of a young woman to an old man and also fearing that this step would be a desecration of G-d’s name. The Charedi street seethed, notices and proclamations were publicized in the streets of Jerusalem, and the city raged. At the end, after more than half a year of stormy polemic, the two married in Elul 1965. Rabbi Amram was forced to leave his native city of Jerusalem and moved for a while to Bnei Brak. After many years, Ruth Ben-David Blau published her best-seller Shomrei Ha’Ir (Jerusalem 1979) in which she relates this painful episode of her life.
4 handwritten leaves 32 cm + two letters (one is written on two pages), and a proclamation 27-28 cm. Good to good-fair condition.

Letter "Revealing the Torah Opinion of the USA Union of Rabbis", handwritten and signed by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, president of the Union of Rabbis. New York, [1973].
Written at the time the decision was rendered to shorten Rabbi Unterman's term as Chief Rabbi of Israel to only ten years [a political move by Rabbi Goren's friends to dismiss the Chief Rabbis Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman and Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim]. In 1973, new elections were conducted in which Rabbi Shlomo Goren and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef were elected as Chief Rabbis of Israel.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, who opposed the dismissal of Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman and the appointment of Rabbi Goren, wrote the ruling in this open letter: "The subject of the Jewish rabbinate all over the world, is a matter of authority which according to Torah law is irrevocable all his life… Therefore, G-d forbid, considering the dismissal of R' Isser Yehuda Unterman from the position of Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael and to appoint someone else in his stead. [I], who writes and signs for the sake of truth and peace – Moshe Feinstein, President".
Official stationery of the "The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada". 8 handwritten lines. 28 cm. Good condition. Moisture damages and folding marks.