Bidspirit auction | Collection of Letters from Around

Collection of Letters from Around the World – Addressed to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, Rabbi of Jerusalem – Ca. 1880s-1910s - Collection of over seventy letters and documents, from rabbis and emissaries, tzedakah collectors and philanthropists from around the world, Europe, Russia, the United States, Canada, England, India and elsewhere. [Ca. 1880s-1910s]. Most of the letters in the collection were addressed to R. Shmuel Salant, Rabbi of Jerusalem, and the Vaad HaKlali in Jerusalem. Some are also addressed to other rabbis who assisted him in administrating the city's tzedakah funds: R. Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim (the Aderet); R. Yitzchak Blazer, the Rabbi of St. Petersburg; R. Chaim Berlin, the Rabbi of Moscow; R. Dov Ber Abramowitz, and other rabbis and treasurers of the Vaad HaKlali and other institutions in the city. The present collection includes letters from: R. Tzemach Hoffenberg, Hartford; R. Moshe Reichler, rabbi of Utica, New York; R. Dov Baer Hailperin (6 letters, 1902-1911), Rabbi of Newark; R. Shabtai Rosenberg (6 letters, 1900-1910), rabbi of Brooklyn; R. Moshe Zevulun Margaliot (2 letters, 1911), New York; R. Yitzchak Elchanan Neustadt, Indianapolis, Indiana (3 letters, 1910-1911); emissary R. Gerson Parush, Calcutta (India), 1888; emissary R. Efraim Shmuel Fefferman (Lerner), New York, 1906; R. Chaim Meir Heilman of Lyepyel (author of Beit Rebbe), Mogilev, 1904; and others. The collection also includes internal letters of the Vaad HaKlali in Jerusalem, including a copying of an agreement dated Kislev 1901 between the Perushim and Chassidic kollels, and a copying of a letter dated Shevat 1912 addressed to the Jews of the United States from the Vaad HaKlali, and letters of R. Chaim Berlin and R. Yitzchak Yerucham Diskin (son of Maharil Diskin). R. Shmuel Salant (1816-1909), immigrated from Salant to Eretz Israel in 1841 to serve as posek and rabbi of the Perushim community of disciples of the Vilna Gaon in Jerusalem. His father-in-law R. Yosef Zundel Salant immigrated to Jerusalem in the same period. In his capacity as rabbi of Jerusalem, a position he held for close to seventy years, he founded the educational and charitable institutions in the city, established the Beit Din and strengthened the Ashkenazi community. He was renowned for his brilliance and pragmatic approach to halachic ruling and in running communal matters in Jerusalem and worldwide. 78 letters. Varying size and condition. The collection has not been thoroughly examined, and is being sold as is.