Auction 10 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Response Handwritten by Maharsham, with Letter by Rebbe Chaim Rabinovitz

Opening: $1,300
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
Question about some halachic matters, by Rebbe Chaim Rabinovitch of Sadigura-Bucharest, with response by Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Ha-Cohen of Berezhany, in his handwriting and with his signature. Iyar 1909.
Questions regarding Treifot, Gitin and Tevilat Ba'al Teshuvah. The Maharsham [seems from handwriting that he was already old], answered briefly the four questions in about 10 lines). As far as we know, this response was not printed.
The inquirer: Rabbi Chaim Rabinovitch (1880-1951, Encyclopedia of Chasidut, A, page 291), Rebbe of Iassi, Sadigura and Bucharest. Son in law of Rabbi Yisrael Landa Av-Beit-Din of Sadigura. See item number 506. His writings were printed in "Kochav Ha-Shachar".
The Maharsham, Ga'on Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Ha-Cohen Schwadron (1835-1911), a foremost adjudicator in his generation, Av-Beit-Din Yaslovic and Berezhany, a great biblical authority in Galicia and abroad. Wrote many compositions, of which the following were printed: nine parts of Maharsham Responsum, Mishpat Shalom on Choshen Mishpat, manifest on Treifot, Da'at Torah on Shulchan Aruch, Techelet Mordechai on the Torah and more.
3 pages, 29 cm. Good-fair condition, slight tears to folds.
Letters – Hassidism
Letters – Hassidism