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Letter in the Handwriting and with the Signature of the Gaon Harav HaKadosh Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Zamosc, Av Beis Din of Brody, Glogau, and the Communities of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek; Author of Responsa Tiferes Tzvi – Sent to the Heads of the Communities of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek, Following His Appointment as Their Rav, While En Route to Them – Berlin, Cheshvan 1803 – Never Printed! ”יוסף ד' עליכם אלף פעמים ככם” In his letter, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch writes to the heads of the communities of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek: “…I greatly rejoiced and exulted in your letter, and as water reflects a face, so as your eyes look forward to seeing me, so do I hope and await seeing you and your faces, to delight and rejoice with you. May Hashem increase you a thousandfold as you are… And please pray for me with the prayer of the many which is heard, that He send His angel before me to guard me and all that is mine on the road upon which I travel…”. At the conclusion of his letter, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch conveys regards from his sons: “the Rabbi, the Gaon, Av Beis Din of Komarno, and my son the Rabbi, Morenu Binyamin.” The Gaon Harav HaKadosh Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Zamosc (1740–1807), among the foremost Rabbanim and disseminators of Torah in his generation. In 1764 he was appointed Rav in Tyszowce near Zamosc. In 1769 he served as Av Beis Din of Greiditz, in 1771 in Brody, and from 1788 in Glogau. Following the passing of the author of Atzei Almogim, who had served as Av Beis Din of the three renowned communities of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek, in Adar II 1802, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch was chosen as Av Beis Din of these communities. As appears from the present letter, the matter was delayed for several months; from this letter, written in Cheshvan 1803, it is evident that he was then in Berlin en route to Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek. To appreciate his extraordinary Torah greatness, it suffices to cite the words of the Gedolei Yisrael of his generation. The Noda B'Yehuda wrote of him: “First among the foremost, none above him… the great luminary Rabbi, the wondrous and outstanding Gaon, perfect in virtues and traits, Ner Yisrael, the mighty hammer, the right pillar…”. Rabbi Akiva Eiger wrote in one of his responsa that one should not rely on his own lenient ruling “unless the elders of the generation concur, ” such as the Beis Meir “and the Gaon Rabbi Hirsch, Av Beis Din of the holy community of Glogau.” His son Rabbi Moshe wrote in the introduction to Tiferes Tzvi: “There was no difficult matter in Written Torah or Oral Torah to which my father did not apply his heart to contemplate. Every hidden matter he expounded with the judgment of his intellect; he investigated the root of each subject with the spirit of his understanding… And that which he brought up in the nets of his intellect he presented before the worthy students encamped around the sanctuary of his Torah.” Rabbeinu the Divrei Chaim of Sanz wrote in his approbation to Tiferes Tzvi: “For who does not know the magnitude of his sharpness, his breadth of knowledge, and his holiness. I recall that the famed Gaon, author of Yeshuos Yaakov, z”l, told me that the precious splendor of the greatness of the aforementioned author lies hidden and concealed in the manuscripts that remained and have not yet been published; there the extent of his greatness in sharpness and mastery is evident…”. Folded sheet. 22 cm. Good condition. Fold marks.