Two large leaves – Heter Meah Rabbanim handwritten and signed by R. Shaul Moshe Zilberman of Wieruszów, with signatures of over a hundred rabbis of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. 1932.

The Rabbi of Wieruszów recounts that the wife fled to the United States and has refused to receive a Get for over 7 years, and he permits her husband to marry another wife, providing he has the signatures of one hundred other rabbis. Further on the leaf, he is joined by R. Bentzion Meir Chai Uziel and R. Shlomo Aronson, the "chief rabbis of Jaffa and Tel Aviv", and the Jerusalem Beit Din, signed by R. Tzvi Pesach Frank, R. Eliyahu Romm, R. Yechiel Michel Horowitz, R. Shimshon Aharon Polonski [the rabbi of Teplik], R. Yitzchak Tzvi Rivlin and R. Shalom Melamed.

On the second leaf appear 95 more signatures of Jerusalem rabbis and students, including: R. Yitzchak Yaakov Wachtfogel, R. Yaakov Asher Grayevski, R. Yechiel Michel Mushkin, R. Yisrael Isser Shapiro [Rabbi of Lapichy], R. Zelig Braverman [a dean of the Meah Shearim yeshiva], R. Yitzchak Arieli, R. Shmuel Aharon Yudelovitz, R. Yosef Shimshelevitz, R. Yosef Dinkles; and many more signatories from the elite Torah scholars in Jerusalem.

The author of the Heter, R. Shaul Moshe Zilberman, the Rabbi of Wieruszów (1850-1939), a leading rabbi in Poland and Eretz Israel, a Kotzk Chassid. He was appointed Rabbi of Koźminek and later of Wieruszów, where he expanded his yeshiva to hundreds of disciples, many of whom later became leading Polish rabbis. After World War I he served as head of the Łódź Beit Din, and in the 1920s he immigrated to Eretz Israel and served for 15 years as Rabbi of Tel Aviv.

[2] leaves (written on both sides). 33.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Tears and wear. The leaves are torn into two in the center across the fold. Partially repaired with paper. Some of the signatures are damaged.

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