Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
A Letter From Rabbi Zalman Fuerst Rabbi of Heidelberg – Concerning Matzot Machine
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A Letter from Rabbi Zalman Fuerst Rabbi of Heidelberg, to Rabbi Avraham Auerbach in Darmstadt. 1843.
A historic letter, firm and interesting, about the controversy of machine matzot: "one baker… of the places that submit to my discipline determined the price with the people of Lampertheim and other places in the Hessen country… to supply matzot for Pesach. The baker explicitly said that the matzot shall be made by machine. And now, one of the people of Lampertheim spread a rumor that the Rabbi prohibits machine matzot… I wonder if this came from the mouth of the "king" … to prohibit machine matzot, which we, all the Rabbis of the Land of Baden including my brother in law Hertz Troib and the Rabbi of Karlsruhe… agreed to permit… ".
Letter's signature: "Zalman son of … Meir Talmesingan … called Zalman Fuerst".
On the leaf are writings of Torah novella in pen and pencil [Rabbi Avraham Auerbach?/ or his son Rabbi Zvi Binyamin?].
Recipient: Rabbi Avraham Auerbach Rabbi of Bonn (1763-1846, Otzar HaRabbanim 161), disciple of Rabbi Natan Adler and friend of the Chatam Sofer. Amongst the great rabbis of Ashkenaz and the Rheine countries. Son in law of Rabbi David Zissenheim (Head of France's "Sanhedrin" Rabbis). His oldest son, Rabbi Zvi Binyamin author of Nachal Eshkol, served from 1845 in the Darmstadt and Hessen Rabbinate. [Possibly, Rabbi Avraham received the letter through his son in Darmstadt].
2 leaf letter, 20 cm. Fair condition, stains.
A historic letter, firm and interesting, about the controversy of machine matzot: "one baker… of the places that submit to my discipline determined the price with the people of Lampertheim and other places in the Hessen country… to supply matzot for Pesach. The baker explicitly said that the matzot shall be made by machine. And now, one of the people of Lampertheim spread a rumor that the Rabbi prohibits machine matzot… I wonder if this came from the mouth of the "king" … to prohibit machine matzot, which we, all the Rabbis of the Land of Baden including my brother in law Hertz Troib and the Rabbi of Karlsruhe… agreed to permit… ".
Letter's signature: "Zalman son of … Meir Talmesingan … called Zalman Fuerst".
On the leaf are writings of Torah novella in pen and pencil [Rabbi Avraham Auerbach?/ or his son Rabbi Zvi Binyamin?].
Recipient: Rabbi Avraham Auerbach Rabbi of Bonn (1763-1846, Otzar HaRabbanim 161), disciple of Rabbi Natan Adler and friend of the Chatam Sofer. Amongst the great rabbis of Ashkenaz and the Rheine countries. Son in law of Rabbi David Zissenheim (Head of France's "Sanhedrin" Rabbis). His oldest son, Rabbi Zvi Binyamin author of Nachal Eshkol, served from 1845 in the Darmstadt and Hessen Rabbinate. [Possibly, Rabbi Avraham received the letter through his son in Darmstadt].
2 leaf letter, 20 cm. Fair condition, stains.
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