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Large Collection of Letters Sent to R. Chaim Berlin

Opening: $600
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium

Collection of over 30 letters sent to R. Chaim Berlin, Rabbi of Moscow, Kobryn, Yelisavetgrad and Jerusalem. Many of them deal with Torah matters and halachic and public questions.


The letters include:

• Letter from R. Avraham Hoffenberg, Rabbi of Vaškai, lament for the passing of his teacher the Netziv of Volozhin. Vaškai (Panevėžys county), [Elul 1893].

• Letter (on official postcard by R. Moshe Nachum Yerushalimsky, Rabbi of Kielce. [Tevet 1904].

• Letter of R. Moshe Yaakov Grinbarg, Rabbi of Radzin. Radzin, 1886.

• Letter of R. Bentzion, rabbi and posek in Radzin, [1881].

• Letter of the shochet R. Menachem Nachum Yoselman of Shklow, 1881.

• Letter of R. Gershon son of Reuven, Rabbi of Quba (Azerbaijan), Cheshvan 1880.

• Four letters by R. Mordechai Friedman of Międzyrzec Podlaski [author of Poteach Davar]. Międzyrzec Podlaski, [1888-1889/1904].

• Letter of R. Yehudah Leib HaKohen, Rabbi of Jonava. [1896].

• Letter of R. Yehudah Lieberman, Samara, [ca. 1880s-1890s].

• Letter (2 pages excluding signature leaf), regarding receiving R. Chaim Berlin as Rabbi of Kobryn. [1890s, ca. 1893].

• Two letters on postcards by R. Dov Aryeh Ritter, Rabbi of Rotterdam. Rotterdam, 1895.

• Letter of R. Yosef HaKohen Fendler, Rabbi of Dunaivtsi. 1901.

• Letter of R. Aryeh Leib Frumkin and R. Yitzchak Sovalsky. Nisan 1902.

• Letter of R. Yehudah Yudel Nastaskin, Rabbi of Smila (Ukraine), [Kislev 1903].

• Letter of R. Yosef Rotman (son of R. Moshe Rabbi of Horodyshche). [Smila, 1899].

• Letter of R. Aharon HaLevi Goldman, Rabbi of Moisés Ville. Argentina, 1909.

• Letter and halachic responsum by R. Levi Yitzchak HaKohen Navidovitz, Rabbi of Raška, [ca. 1890s].

• Letter of R. Ze'ev Wolf Vishniak. Moscow, 1902.

• Two letters of R. Alter Heller Brody. Warsaw, [1895].

• Letter of R. Avraham son of Moshe Temkin. Siedlce, 1903.

• Letter of R. Yisrael Moshe Goldberg, Rabbi of Myrhorod (Kherson region), Adar 1903.

• Document of sale of chametz handwritten by R. Chaim Berlin, Yelisavetgrad, Nisan 1905.

• Letter of R. Meir Freiman. New York, 1910; and more letters and copies of letters.


Over 30 letters comprising over 40 leaves. Size and condition Vary. Overall good condition.

PLEASE NOTE: Item descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to Hebrew text.

Letters – Yeshivah Deans and Rabbis of Lithuania and Russia
Letters – Yeshivah Deans and Rabbis of Lithuania and Russia