A letter with the signature of Rabbi Yeshaya Banet, to Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ulman Av Beit Din of Mako. Kalow, 1959.
"I have been asked to confirm the question put to me about… those who wish to destroy the basics of religion…". In the letter he mentions the renowned Gaon of the Holy Community of Grosswardien."
Rabbi Yeshaya Banet (1793-1866, Otzar HaRabbanim 11673), was a tremendous gaon and tzaddik. The son of the Maharam Banet and the son-in-law of the author of Shemen Rokeach. He served as Rabbi of Mislitz (Moravia), and after his father's death and upon the spreading of the Haskala (Enlightement) Movement in Moravia, moved to Kalow in Hungary where he succeeded the Tzaddik of Kaliv and was chosen as Chief Rabbi of the Savaltch region (in his letter he signs: Av Beit Din of Kamidat Savaltch). One of the senior warriors of the Charedi struggle in Hungary against the reformists.
25cm. Good condition. Stains and fold marks.