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LONG RESPONSA FROM RAV YOSEF ZECHARIA STERN, RAV OF SHAVL - Long autograph responsa on a variety of topics, including what the correct approach should be in teaching a student who has vision problems that can worsen by studying from a Sefer, by R. Yosef Zechariah Stern of Shavel. With an additional paragraph in Yiddish by his wife and child. Much of this responsa is published in Zecher Yehosef Yoreh Deah Siman 171, however with variations. R. Yosef Zechariah Stern (1839-1904), was one of the leading Rabbinical leaders of his generation and author of many highly acclaimed works. His Seforim, which encompass a wide spectrum of Torah subjects, are renowned for their great erudition and reveal some of the breadth of his encyclopedic knowledge. Additionally, his opinion on complex halachic issues was much sought after, and many of his responsa are printed in his multi-volume Zecher Yehosef. In his first published work Zecher Yehosef on the Shas, which was published when R. Yosef Zechariah was 20 years old, R. Yaakov Gesundheit of Warsaw writes in his approbation, “HaRav Hama’or HaGaon HaGadol HaCharif UBaki HaMefursam R. Yosef Zechariah Stern of Lita came before me and showed me his manuscript… and I stood there astonished and trembling at the extent of his incisive encyclopedic knowledge of Talmud Bavli, Yerushalmi, Tosefta, with all the Teshuvos, Poskim and Meforshim….”