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Letter of Recommendation for a Shochet by Rabbi Nachum Greenhaus Av Beit Din of Trakai, to his Father-in-law, Author of Cheshek Shlomo of Vilna
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Autograph letter signed by Rabbi Nachum Greenhaus, to his father-in-law, Rabbi Shlomo HaCohen of Vilna. Trakai (Lithuania), 1901.
Recommendation and request to give semicha (ordination) to the shochet Rabbi Yosef Dov Pitzkornik of Trakai, who was already ordained by several shochtim and by the Rabbi of Szczuczyn, and he requests semicha also from the Rabbi of Vilna.
Rabbi Nachum Greenhaus (1866-1915), son-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo HaCohen, author of Cheshek Shlomo (1831-1905), in 1888, at the age of 22, was appointed rabbi of the Jewish community of Trakai (a town west of Vilna, in which a large Karaite community resided. The position of Jewish rabbi of Trakai demanded profound wisdom and cleverness). An outstanding Torah scholar with extensive knowledge of halacha and aggadah, he wrote a large work on Talmudic and halachic treatises, but the composition was lost and never printed. At first, Rabbi Greenhaus supported the Zionist and Mizrachi movements, and in 1891, he published his amazing article Shelomim L'Riv Zion in the Shivat Zion journal. Later, when he comprehended the nature of these movements, he fiercely opposed them and published a sharp article named "Ta'ut L'Olam Chozer" (Hamodia, Year 2, Issue 50, Erev Succot 1912, p. 180), in which he retracts his support of the Mizrachi movement.
His grandson, named after him, was the famous Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, head of the Mir Yeshiva, born in Trakai to Rabbi Aryeh Zvi Partzovitch, son-in-law and successor of Rabbi Nachum Greenhaus in the Trakai rabbinate.
Leaf, 20 cm. 16 handwritten lines. Good condition. Minor creases.
Recommendation and request to give semicha (ordination) to the shochet Rabbi Yosef Dov Pitzkornik of Trakai, who was already ordained by several shochtim and by the Rabbi of Szczuczyn, and he requests semicha also from the Rabbi of Vilna.
Rabbi Nachum Greenhaus (1866-1915), son-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo HaCohen, author of Cheshek Shlomo (1831-1905), in 1888, at the age of 22, was appointed rabbi of the Jewish community of Trakai (a town west of Vilna, in which a large Karaite community resided. The position of Jewish rabbi of Trakai demanded profound wisdom and cleverness). An outstanding Torah scholar with extensive knowledge of halacha and aggadah, he wrote a large work on Talmudic and halachic treatises, but the composition was lost and never printed. At first, Rabbi Greenhaus supported the Zionist and Mizrachi movements, and in 1891, he published his amazing article Shelomim L'Riv Zion in the Shivat Zion journal. Later, when he comprehended the nature of these movements, he fiercely opposed them and published a sharp article named "Ta'ut L'Olam Chozer" (Hamodia, Year 2, Issue 50, Erev Succot 1912, p. 180), in which he retracts his support of the Mizrachi movement.
His grandson, named after him, was the famous Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz, head of the Mir Yeshiva, born in Trakai to Rabbi Aryeh Zvi Partzovitch, son-in-law and successor of Rabbi Nachum Greenhaus in the Trakai rabbinate.
Leaf, 20 cm. 16 handwritten lines. Good condition. Minor creases.
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