Auction 54 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Collection of Approbations for the Book of Hadranim Hadar Yitzchak - By Leading Jerusalem and Minsk Rabbis
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Collection of letters of approbation for the book Hadar Yitzchak and for the series of Sde Yitzchak books, written by R. Yitzchak Weidler. Minsk and Babruysk, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, 1922-1947.
Approbation letters by the following rabbis: R. Yosef Zvi Dushinsky. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Isser Zalman Meltzer. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Zelig Reuven Bangis. Jerusalem, [1944]; R. Zvi Pesach Frank. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Meir Stelvitz. Jerusalem, 1947; R. Ben Zion Chai Uziel. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Moshe Avigdor Amiel. Tel Aviv, 1941; R. Avraham Zvi Schorr. Jerusalem, [1941]. R. Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Menachem Gluskin. Minsk, 1922; R. Shmuel Bezfalov. Babruysk, [19th of Kislev 1925].
Recipient of the approbations: R. Yitzchak Weidler (1896-1948), famous Torah scholar and orator, refugee of White-Russia who arrived in Jerusalem after the Soviet revolution. He was born in Poland and in his youth he studied in the Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva and in the Lubavitch Yeshiva. After his marriage to the daughter of R. Asher Anshel Rakovchik, a rabbi in Minsk, he was appointed Rabbi of new Kamrovka, a large neighborhood on the outskirts of Minsk. In 1937, he moved to Jerusalem and was celebrated for his interesting sermons. His book Hadar Yitzchak, containing explanations on the version of the Hadran upon completing the Talmud, was printed in Jerusalem in 1940. The four volumes of his book Sde Yitzchak [responsa and Talmudic riddles] were printed in 1943-1951. During the Israeli War of Independence, he was injured in Jerusalem and died of his wounds on the 13th of Iyar 1948.
11 letters. Size varies. Overall good condition. Most of the letters are written on official stationery, handwritten and signed by the rabbis; some are typewritten, bearing the rabbis' signatures.
Approbation letters by the following rabbis: R. Yosef Zvi Dushinsky. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Isser Zalman Meltzer. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Zelig Reuven Bangis. Jerusalem, [1944]; R. Zvi Pesach Frank. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Meir Stelvitz. Jerusalem, 1947; R. Ben Zion Chai Uziel. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Moshe Avigdor Amiel. Tel Aviv, 1941; R. Avraham Zvi Schorr. Jerusalem, [1941]. R. Yitzchak Isaac HaLevi Herzog. Jerusalem, 1940; R. Menachem Gluskin. Minsk, 1922; R. Shmuel Bezfalov. Babruysk, [19th of Kislev 1925].
Recipient of the approbations: R. Yitzchak Weidler (1896-1948), famous Torah scholar and orator, refugee of White-Russia who arrived in Jerusalem after the Soviet revolution. He was born in Poland and in his youth he studied in the Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva and in the Lubavitch Yeshiva. After his marriage to the daughter of R. Asher Anshel Rakovchik, a rabbi in Minsk, he was appointed Rabbi of new Kamrovka, a large neighborhood on the outskirts of Minsk. In 1937, he moved to Jerusalem and was celebrated for his interesting sermons. His book Hadar Yitzchak, containing explanations on the version of the Hadran upon completing the Talmud, was printed in Jerusalem in 1940. The four volumes of his book Sde Yitzchak [responsa and Talmudic riddles] were printed in 1943-1951. During the Israeli War of Independence, he was injured in Jerusalem and died of his wounds on the 13th of Iyar 1948.
11 letters. Size varies. Overall good condition. Most of the letters are written on official stationery, handwritten and signed by the rabbis; some are typewritten, bearing the rabbis' signatures.
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