Heter meah rabbanim given in 1939 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, by the Beit Din of Yosef Tzvi HaLevi, Av Beit Din of Jaffa. Rabbi Isser Yehudah Unterman joins in this heter, followed by additional rabbinic signatories from three countries, including famous rabbis.
The court ruling deals with a woman who is hospitalized at a hospital for the mentally ill in Riga, Latvia, “lying there like an inanimate rock” and “incapable of normal family life.” Her husband, who is in the Land of Israel, requests that the Beit Din release him from his chains of aginut. The Beit Din, in a lengthy and justified ruling, permits the husband to marry another woman in addition to this one, without a get.
The rabbinic signatories on this ruling include: Rabbi Shmuel Yitzchak Jaffe, Rabbi Yisrael Isser Shapira, Rabbi Pesach Kukis, Rabbi Eliezer Lipshutz, Rabbi Katriel Fischel Tchoresh, Rabbi Reuven Trop, Rabbi Ephraim Borodiansky, Rabbi Yitzchak Yedidyah Frankel, Rabbi Ya’akov Levitsky, Rabbi Shmuel Ya’akov Glicksberg, Rabbi Yissachar Tamar, Rabbi Levi Grossman, Rabbi Ephraim Sokolover, Rabbi Yosef Shapira, Rabbi Yitzchak David Shenker, Rabbi Alexander Yudasin, Rabbi Yeshayahu Shechter, Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Schmerler and others.
[4] typewritten leaves, signed at their ends by Rabbi Yosef Tzvi HaLevi, Av Beit Din of Jaffa. With Rabbi Unterman’s signature. + [2] additional leaves. At the top of the first leaf, the essence of the ruling is printed, with a request that rabbis join the ruling. Following this are the signatures of one hundred rabbis.
Various sizes. Fine condition. Aging stains. Filing perforations. Fold marks. Tiny tears in the margins of the tears.