Auction 46 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Letter of Recommendation Handwritten by the Author of Va'Yaged Ya'akov Av Beit Din of Zelem and Pápa – 1913
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Autograph letter signed by Rabbi Ya'akov Yechizkiya Greenwald. Zelem (Deutschkreutz), 1913.
Recommendation for Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Heller from Safed, and a request "to support him and assist him… as is fitting for a Torah scholar…Not every day such a traveler happens by…".
Rabbi Ya'akov Yechizkia Greenwald author of VaYaged Ya'akov (1882-1941), Av Beit Din of Zelem and Pápa. Son and close disciple of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald author of Arugot HaBosem Av Beit Din of Chust. Was close to the courts of Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam Av Beit Din of Sieniawa. Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach Av Beit Din of Belz and his son Rabbi Aharon Rokeach Av Beit Din of Belz. Son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Yisrael Menachem Braun Av Beit Din of Brizdivitz. At a young age, he was appointed Rabbi of the Lukovo community (in the Irshava district of Zakarpattia Oblast) and in 1912 Rabbi of Zelem. there he established an important yeshiva and became renowned as a leading Hungarian rabbi. In 1823, the Bánffyhunyad community elected him as rabbi and in 1929 he became Rabbi of the Charedi community of Pápa. At that time his yeshiva already counted hundreds of disciples.
After his death, his son Rabbi Yosef Greenwald succeeded him. After the Holocaust he immigrated to the US and re-established the Kehillat Ya'akov-Pápa community and was one of the foremost rabbis and rebbes in the USA.
Leaf, 23 cm. Approximately 16 lines in his handwriting. Fair condition, wear to margins and paper folds.
Recommendation for Rabbi Ze'ev Wolf Heller from Safed, and a request "to support him and assist him… as is fitting for a Torah scholar…Not every day such a traveler happens by…".
Rabbi Ya'akov Yechizkia Greenwald author of VaYaged Ya'akov (1882-1941), Av Beit Din of Zelem and Pápa. Son and close disciple of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald author of Arugot HaBosem Av Beit Din of Chust. Was close to the courts of Rebbe Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam Av Beit Din of Sieniawa. Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach Av Beit Din of Belz and his son Rabbi Aharon Rokeach Av Beit Din of Belz. Son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Yisrael Menachem Braun Av Beit Din of Brizdivitz. At a young age, he was appointed Rabbi of the Lukovo community (in the Irshava district of Zakarpattia Oblast) and in 1912 Rabbi of Zelem. there he established an important yeshiva and became renowned as a leading Hungarian rabbi. In 1823, the Bánffyhunyad community elected him as rabbi and in 1929 he became Rabbi of the Charedi community of Pápa. At that time his yeshiva already counted hundreds of disciples.
After his death, his son Rabbi Yosef Greenwald succeeded him. After the Holocaust he immigrated to the US and re-established the Kehillat Ya'akov-Pápa community and was one of the foremost rabbis and rebbes in the USA.
Leaf, 23 cm. Approximately 16 lines in his handwriting. Fair condition, wear to margins and paper folds.
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