Court ruling (3 large pages), Heter Me'a Rabbanim - signed by 115 rabbis, permitting Rebbe Mordechai Rokeach to remarry, after his first wife disappeared during the Holocaust. Jerusalem, Iyar 22, 1946.
The court ruling begins with the account of the disappearance of Rebbetzin Batsheva Rokeach, who travelled in 1941 with her daughter to Kobryn. In the summer of 1942, the eradication of the Jews of Kobryn was already publicized, and according to information which reached the organization of Kobryn Immigrants - of the thousands of Jews living in Kobryn before the Holocaust, only a few survived.
The signatories are headed by the dayanim of the Beit Din of Chassidim in Jerusalem: R. Yerucham Fischel Bernstein, R. Naftali Tzvi Schmerler and R. Yisrael Yitzchak HaLevi Reisman, followed by dozens more signatures (on both sides of the page) - from rabbis, rebbes, and young Torah scholars of Jerusalem, including: R. Yosef Meir Kahane (Rebbe of Spinka); R. Chanoch Dov Padwa (later rabbi of the Union of Orthodox communities in London); R. Avraham Yitzchak Kohn (later Rebbe of Toldot Aharon); R. Avraham Chaim Roth (later Rebbe of Shomrei Emunim); R. Shalom Safrin (Rebbe of Komarna) and others.
R. Mordechai Rokeach, Rebbe of Biłgoraj (1901-1949), son of Rebbe Yissachar Dov of Belz. During the Holocaust, he managed to flee to Hungary together with his brother the Belzer rebbe and from there to Eretz Israel, where they together rebuilt the Belz Chassidut. In 1946, upon receiving word that his wife and children were murdered in the Holocaust, he tried to obtain a Heter Me'a Rabbanim. He remarried Rebbetzin Miriam (Glick, from the city of Satmar) and passed away shortly thereafter. His only son from that marriage, the present Belzer Rebbe, was born in Shevat 1948.
3 pages. 32.5 cm. [2] typewritten pages, and one and a half pages with the handwritten signatures of 115 rabbis and rebbes. Good-fair condition. Water damage.