Certificate of ordination to "Moreinu HaRav", handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yosef Zvi [Maharitz] Dushinsky, at the time he served in the Galanta rabbinate. The semicha was granted to his disciple Rabbi Tuvia Avraham Burger [before his wedding]. Galanta (Hungary), 1909. Rabbi Yosef Zvi (Maharitz) Dushinsky (1868-1949), a leading Hungarian Torah scholar of world renown, served in the rabbinates of Galanta and Chust, in which he also headed two of the largest most prominent yeshivot in Hungary. In 1933, he ascended to Eretz Israel to succeed Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld as Chief Rabbi of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem and in Eretz Israel. In Jerusalem he re-established his yeshiva and routinely delivered his discourses. He led the Charedi Jewry in Eretz Israel with a high hand and participated in the Agudat Yisrael delegation to the Peel Commission and to other UN committees before the establishment of the State of Israel. Died at the end of the Israeli War of Independence in 1948 and was interned in the small cemetery in the courtyard of the former Sha’arei Zedek Hospital on Yaffo St. The semicha was received by Rabbi Tuvia Avraham Burger (1884-1970), studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva and at the Galanta Yeshiva. While yet a student, he was appointed “head of the yeshiva” [in Hungary this diminutive was used for the young man who reviewed the rabbi’s discourses for the students]. He married the daughter of Rabbi Noach Zvi Ulmann, a rabbi in Antwerp. After the Holocaust, he lived in Tel Aviv and delivered there Torah discourses. Died on Purim 1970. Official stationery, 24 cm. 18 handwritten lines. Good condition.