Auction 7 Tiferet Auction House - Special and Rare items
By Tiferet Auctions
Sep 11, 2019
Beit HaShenhav 12, Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, Israel

Religious articles, Letters from Tzadikim from previous generations , Hasidic books from first print, attributed copies and discoveries from the extermination camps in Europe.

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Eleven rows personally hand written by the Holy Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Assad to his family, his son-in-law ...

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Eleven rows personally hand written by the Holy Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Assad to his family, his son-in-law the Holy Gaon Rabbi Aharon Bichler ab"d Jászberény and his wife - his daughter Mrs Serel. 
'טייער קינדער לעבען'
The letter is from the year 1865, the last year of the Holy Rabbi Yehuda Assad.
In the hand written letter, Moron Rabbi Yehuda Assad tells relates and shares what he learned at the time and about the lecture of the coming Shabbat Shuva, he dealt with the sugya 'דהמקלקל בחבורה' שבת ק"ו,
Warm and emotional greetings to his family in Yiddish – Deutch language, his teachings and knowledge thread through the generations because ראוי להימנע מצומות וסיגופים בימי הסליחות וחלף זאת, לעסוק בש"ס ופוסקים. 'כי טוב לי יום בחצירך
Beautiful acrostic writing appears before the letter, the same type and value from the son of the Holy Rabbi Yehuda Assad, the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchok Moshe Assad to his brother –in –law and sister his copious longing, congratulations and best wishes, and afterwards blessings in Yiddish and his signature in Hebrew and English.
After Moron Rabbi Yehuda Assad, the brother-in-law added on the letter, son-in-law of the moron, Rabbi Chaim Leib Vein from the great disciples, son-in-law and Rabbi, also written in Yiddish.

HaGaon Rabbi Yehudah Assad (1796-1866), illustrious Torah scholar and head of yeshiva in Hungary, disciple of Rabbi Aharon Suditz and of Rabbi Mordechai [Maharam] Bennet. Served in the Senica (Semnitz) and Dunaszerdahely rabbinates. Recommended to the rabbinate by the Chatam Sofer. There he established a Yeshiva where he taught hundreds of youths Torah and fear of heaven. After the passing of the Chatam Sofer - with whom he conversed in writing many of his Halacha and Divrei Torah - he was reckoned as the Posek of the generation and from the greatest Rabbi in Hungary.

His son, Rabbi Yitzchak Moshe Assad (1843-1930), disciple of his father and of the Ktav Sofer, lived in Makó. Cited in the Mahary"a responsa are letters written to Rabbi Yitzchak Moshe by his father at the time he was studying in Pressburg.

Rabbi Aharon Bichler-Suditz, son-in-law of the Mahary"a, who received this letter, was a disciple of the Ktav Sofer and of his father-in-law the Mahar"y Assad who chose him as his son-in-law, was appointed to the Jászberény rabbinate in 1863 and served there for a dozens of years. He also served as ab"d in Dunaszerdahely the place where his father-in-law and brother-in-law served.  

4 sheets, 2 of them are written. Folding marks like a letter. Postage stamp.Original wax seal half saved. 

Light repairs. Very good condition.

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