Auction 40 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Letter of Responsum from Rabbi Yonah Shtentzel to the Chazon Ish - "Kvittel" Handwritten by the Chazon Ish
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Sold for: $500
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Responsum, on the laws of blood in eggs, in the handwriting and with the signature of Rabbi Yonah Shtentzel to Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, author of the Chazon Ish. Tel Aviv, Sivan 1943.
On the second page are inscriptions in the handwriting of the Chazon Ish, various names and the names of their mothers for whom the Chazon Ish wanted to pray.
Rabbi Yonah Shtentzel (1904-1969) was a thinker and he initiated the idea of the Mishnah Yomit (daily) in memory of those who sanctified G-d's name during the Holocaust. Disciple of Rabbi Meir Shapira and the Gaon of Koziegłowy of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva. One of the most prominent rabbis in Tel Aviv, he persisted in guarding observance of Shabbat and Kashrut. During his last days, he was heartbroken due to the increase in Shabbat desecration in Tel Aviv and he talked extensively about the subject.
Official stationery, 28 cm. written on both sides. Good condition.
On the second page are inscriptions in the handwriting of the Chazon Ish, various names and the names of their mothers for whom the Chazon Ish wanted to pray.
Rabbi Yonah Shtentzel (1904-1969) was a thinker and he initiated the idea of the Mishnah Yomit (daily) in memory of those who sanctified G-d's name during the Holocaust. Disciple of Rabbi Meir Shapira and the Gaon of Koziegłowy of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva. One of the most prominent rabbis in Tel Aviv, he persisted in guarding observance of Shabbat and Kashrut. During his last days, he was heartbroken due to the increase in Shabbat desecration in Tel Aviv and he talked extensively about the subject.
Official stationery, 28 cm. written on both sides. Good condition.
Letters to the Chazon Ish
Letters to the Chazon Ish