Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Letter signed by Rabbi of Toltchwa Rabbi Moshe David Ashkenazi Av-Beit-Din Safed and by Rabbi Shmuel Helir
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A printed letter of thanks for a donation to the Bolshevitz community. With signatures of rabbis of Kollels of Austria in Jerusalem, Safed, Hebron and Tiberias. Lemberg printing press, 1852. The letter was written in Iyar 1853. The rabbis express the Kollel's gratitude for transferring five silver-ruble to the emissaries.
[Due to a dispute between the kollel in Jerusalem and the kollel in Safed, the Safed kollel could not print the letter and it was, therefore, printed in Lemberg].
On the bottom of the letter: seal of the Kollels and signatures of 8 rabbis.
Rabbi Moshe David Ashkenazi of Toltchwa-Safed, (1774-1856), author of Toldot Adam and Be'er Sheva. Served as rabbi of Toltchwa for forty years. Moved to Safed in 1844 and was one of the founders of the Chasidic settlement in post-earthquake Safed. Father in law of the author of "Yetav Lev" and father of Rabbi Yoel Ashkenazi of Zholkiev. Rebbes of Satmar and Kloizenburg were his descendants. His home and Beit Midrash in Safed were restored by his grandson the Rebbe of Kloizenburg, and today the Sanz Institutes in Safed are located there.
Rabbi Shmuel Helir (1786-1884), was raised in the house of the Seer of Lublin who instructed him to move to Eretz Yisrael. Served as rabbi of Safed for sixty years. (Otzar Ha-Rabanim 19134). See about him and about the settlement in Safed in "The Rabbi, the Leader and the Doctor" (Safed 1988).
Rabbi Shmarya Shmeril Brandris (1780-1857), rabbi of Harlimov, disciple of Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot and Rabbi Avraham David of Butatch. Author of "Iyun Tefilah" and "Kehilot Ya'akov". Moved to Eretz Yisrael in 1852 and settled in Jerusalem. In 1856 signed the "boycott" against the Haskalah schools. (See about him in the Encyclopedia of the Sages of Galicia, 1 pp.618-619).
Leaf 22 cm, good condition, stains and folding marks.
[Due to a dispute between the kollel in Jerusalem and the kollel in Safed, the Safed kollel could not print the letter and it was, therefore, printed in Lemberg].
On the bottom of the letter: seal of the Kollels and signatures of 8 rabbis.
Rabbi Moshe David Ashkenazi of Toltchwa-Safed, (1774-1856), author of Toldot Adam and Be'er Sheva. Served as rabbi of Toltchwa for forty years. Moved to Safed in 1844 and was one of the founders of the Chasidic settlement in post-earthquake Safed. Father in law of the author of "Yetav Lev" and father of Rabbi Yoel Ashkenazi of Zholkiev. Rebbes of Satmar and Kloizenburg were his descendants. His home and Beit Midrash in Safed were restored by his grandson the Rebbe of Kloizenburg, and today the Sanz Institutes in Safed are located there.
Rabbi Shmuel Helir (1786-1884), was raised in the house of the Seer of Lublin who instructed him to move to Eretz Yisrael. Served as rabbi of Safed for sixty years. (Otzar Ha-Rabanim 19134). See about him and about the settlement in Safed in "The Rabbi, the Leader and the Doctor" (Safed 1988).
Rabbi Shmarya Shmeril Brandris (1780-1857), rabbi of Harlimov, disciple of Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot and Rabbi Avraham David of Butatch. Author of "Iyun Tefilah" and "Kehilot Ya'akov". Moved to Eretz Yisrael in 1852 and settled in Jerusalem. In 1856 signed the "boycott" against the Haskalah schools. (See about him in the Encyclopedia of the Sages of Galicia, 1 pp.618-619).
Leaf 22 cm, good condition, stains and folding marks.
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