Bidspirit auction | Letter by Rabbi Mendel Friedmann

Letter by Rabbi Mendel Friedmann to Rabbi Asher Anschil Katz, the son-in-law of the Rav of Shamloy. [Jerusalem], (1935). ”ובעזר השי”ת אני אזכיר אתכם לטובה בל”נ אמל המקומות הקדושים כמבוקשכם והקב”ה יקבל את תפילתינו ברחמם וברצון”; letter of gratitude, blessings and regards that was sent to Rabbi Anschil Katz Av Beis Din of Serdaheli, before Yom Kippur. [Jerusalem], (1935). [1] stamped letter with more than [30] lines with erasures and additions between the lines. The Sender's address appears on verso of the letter. At the end of the letter, the writer added blessings for the appointment of Rabbi Chaim, the son of the Gaon Av Beis Din of Shamloy and the son-in-law of Rabbi Asher Anschil Katz, as Rav and Av Beis Din. The Rabbinic Chassid Mendel Friedmann of Jerusalem was the owner of the famed bookshop and the shop that sold Etrogim of Eretz Yisroel in the Meah She'arim neighborhood. The Holy Gaon Rabbi Asher Anschil Katz Av Beis Din of Serdaheli and one of the greatest rabbis of Hungary (1880-1944) was born in Tshenger to Rabbi Yonosn Binyomin. In his youth, he studied Torah with the author of Arugos HaBosem. At a young age married the daughter of the Holy Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich of Shamloy. At first he held positions of teacher and Rav in Shamloy until he was appointed Rav of Serdaheli, where he led the community until the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Rabbi Asher Anschil died on Kiddush Hashem with the members of his community in Auschwitz. His grandsons who survived the Holocaust are the Gaon Av Beis Din of Wien and Gaon Av Beis Din of Serdaheli in New York. Fold marks. Good condition.