Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Letter from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein – Participation in the Joint Completion of the Talmud – New York, 1960
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Printed postcard, completed and signed by R. Moshe Feinstein. New York, [1960].
Reply card issued by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, asking various rabbis to notify of their participation in the joint completion of the Talmud by the UOR rabbis. The answer was filled-in and signed by R. Moshe Feinstein, who wrote that he intends to study "Bli neder – tractates Niddah and Berachot of the Babylonian Talmud".
R. Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), foremost halachic authority in the United States, leader of Orthodox Jewry and chairman of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah. He served as dean of the Tiferet Yerushalayim yeshiva in New York. He authored: Responsa Igrot Moshe, Dibrot Moshe – Talmudic novellae and Dorash Moshe – novellae on the Torah.
Upon arriving in the United States from Russia in 1937, R. Moshe gained renown as a leading Torah scholar and halachic authority, and the elder rabbis there accepted his authority and opinions in halachic rulings. He was later appointed president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis – the UOR.
Postcard. Approx. 14X8.5 cm. Very good condition.
Reply card issued by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, asking various rabbis to notify of their participation in the joint completion of the Talmud by the UOR rabbis. The answer was filled-in and signed by R. Moshe Feinstein, who wrote that he intends to study "Bli neder – tractates Niddah and Berachot of the Babylonian Talmud".
R. Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), foremost halachic authority in the United States, leader of Orthodox Jewry and chairman of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah. He served as dean of the Tiferet Yerushalayim yeshiva in New York. He authored: Responsa Igrot Moshe, Dibrot Moshe – Talmudic novellae and Dorash Moshe – novellae on the Torah.
Upon arriving in the United States from Russia in 1937, R. Moshe gained renown as a leading Torah scholar and halachic authority, and the elder rabbis there accepted his authority and opinions in halachic rulings. He was later appointed president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis – the UOR.
Postcard. Approx. 14X8.5 cm. Very good condition.
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