Auction 46 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Novellae in the Handwriting of Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin Ra'avad of Jerusalem – 1920

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Leaves handwritten by Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin. [Jerusalem], c. 1920.
the leaves contain halachic discussions and novellae. Some of the sections have been previously printed in various Torah anthologies.
Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin (1871-1929), son of Rabbi Ya'akov Gershon Rabinowitz [brother of the famous bibliographer R' Michel Rabinowitz of Jerusalem]. studied in the Slabodka and Mir Yeshivot. In 1894 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem. From 1904 served as Rabbi of the Ekron settlement (Mazkeret Batya) for the following four years. In 1923, he headed a Jerusalem delegation at the first Knessia Gedola of Agudat Yisrael which took place in Vienna. In 1924, he was appointed Ra’avad of Jerusalem on behalf of the Eda HaCharedit, alongside Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
More than 40 written pages. Varied size and condition (some incomplete, some with open tears).
Manuscripts – Ashkenaz
Manuscripts – Ashkenaz