Auction 70
Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Mar 31, 2020
Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 394:
Beit Din Decision Permitting an Agunah, Whose Husband Perished in the Holocaust, to Remarry - Handwritten and ...
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Beit Din Decision Permitting an Agunah, Whose Husband Perished in the Holocaust, to Remarry - Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein - New York, 1950
Leaf handwritten by R. Moshe Feinstein, signed by him and by two other dayanim: R. "Elkana Zoberman" and R. "Yisrael Yosef Rabinowitz". New York, Sivan 1950.
Marriage permit for an agunah. A Holocaust survivor, she was taken with her husband from Mukacheve to Auschwitz and "upon their arrival there, they were separated, the woman sent to work and her husband sent to to his death…".
R. Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), foremost halachic authority in the United States. President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada. Leader of Orthodox Jewry and head of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah. Dean of the Tiferet Yerushalayim Yeshiva in New York. Author of Responsa Igrot Moshe, Dibrot Moshe on the Talmud and Darash Moshe on the Torah.
R. Elkana Zoberman (1903-1959, Encyclopedia LeChachmei Galicia, II, pp. 974-975), Rabbi of Jordanów (Galicia) from 1929. A leading Bobov Chassid. In 1940, he was deported to Siberia, and after his release in 1941 served as posek for refugees in a town near Tashkent. He was rabbi in Wałbrzych from 1946, dealing extensively with the release of agunot. In 1948, he moved to the United States, where he served as rabbi. He became a leading posek and ordained many American rabbis. Member of the Beit Din for agunot of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, alongside R. Moshe Feinstein.
[1] leaf (written on both sides). 24 cm. Good condition.
