Prozbul document of R. Efraim Yosef Dov Ashkenazi, famed attendant of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, signed by the dayanim of the Beit Din, R. Moshe Yosefovitch, R. Eliyahu Pollock and R. Natan Yosef Meisels. 29 Elul, 1959.

Printed document with details filled in in handwriting: "R. Yosef Ashkenazi of Brooklyn came before us, the Beit Din undersigned… and we grant that he not remit any debt he is owed by any person… in accordance with the decree of the Sages. Signed 29 Elul, 5719".

R. Efraim Yosef Dov son of R. Shraga Feivish Ashkenazi (R. Yosel; 1911-2002), attendant and confidant of the Rebbe of Satmar for close to sixty years, and his close assistant in all communal matters. R. Yosef was a particularly astute Torah scholar, great in Chassidut and fear of God. During the Holocaust, R. Yosef accompanied the Rebbe on his journey in the famous Kastner rescue train, and later immigrated with him to Eretz Israel, and immigrated to the United States shortly thereafter. He was the owner of the Yerushalayim publishing house in Williamsburg. He edited his Rebbe's books in Halachah and Aggadah and published them (see his introduction to Responsa Divrei Yoel). Author of She'erit Yosef on the Torah.

[1] leaf. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Folds.