Letter by the Chassid Rabbi Asher Ze'ev Werner Rabbi of Tiberias, to Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz. Tiberias, 1956.
Query on deep kabalistic matters, about a Slonim Chassid who labored in the concentration camps and did not find the Luz bone in the ashes of those exterminated there. At the end of the letter he signs his name and the name of his mother: Asher Ze'ev ben Dina.
Rabbi Asher Ze'ev Werner (1894-1958), a renowned Torah genius and mekubal, Slonim Chassid. Born in Jerusalem, disciple of Rabbi Moshe Klirs in the Ohr Torah Yeshiva in Tiberias. During World War I, he ended up in the US where he was appointed rabbi of Peterson. After Rabbi Klirs died in 1934, he was called to succeed Rabbi Klirs as Rabbi of Tiberias and to head the yeshiva as Rabbi Klirs directed. He was friendly with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ashlag. Served as Rabbi and President of Po'alei Agudat Yisrael and member of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah.
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