Bidspirit auction | ”A letter from Rabbi Moshe

”A letter from Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund. 1970  A letter from Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund, thanking the ””Ezras Torah”” institution for their donations for Yom Tov. At that time Rabbi Fruend served as Rabbi of the ””Beis Yisroel”” neighborhood and Rosh Yeshiva of Satmar. Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund (1894– 1996) was the Chief Rabbi (av beis din) of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem. He wrote a famous book called Ateres Yehoshua, and he himself was also referred to with this name occasionally. He was a Satmar chossid. He was born in 1904 in the Hungarian town of Honiad, where his father, Rabbi Yisroel Freund, served as av beis din. Before the Second World War broke out, he served as rosh yeshiva in the Hungarian town of Sǎtmar (now Satu Mare, Romania). The Nazis arrested him and his entire family in 1944. The family was deported to Auschwitz, where only Reb Moshe Aryeh survived; his wife and all of his nine children died there at the hands of the Nazis. In 1951, he moved to Jerusalem, where he became the Rov of the Satmar community. In 1979, he was elected av beis din of the Edah HaChareidis, a position which he fulfilled until his death. ”