Important collection of thirty-three original letters handwritten and signed by prominent Diaspora rabbis including chief rabbis of various countries and major cities. United States, Canada and Europe, mid-late 19th to mid-late 20th centuries. C. 1870-1970.
The letters are full of important content in pan-Judaic international and rabbinic halachic topics. These include the establishment of Torah institutions and mikva’ot , conversion-related topics, get documents [ shaliach l’holchah ], heterei agunot , rabbinic ordinations and much, much more.
Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, one of the most prominent American poskim and head of the Ezrat Torah Association. New York
Beit din of Montreal, under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung, Montreal, Canada, to the beit din in Haifa. Sending a get from one place to another
Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung, chief rabbi of Montreal, Canada. Items stolen from a Haifa synagogue
Rabbi Eliyahu Jung, one of the most prominent American rabbis, a leader of the “Joint” and of the OU. New York. (Two letters)
Rabbi Yosef Yehoshua Apfel, av beit din of Leeds, England. (Two letters)
Rabbi Moshe b”r Tzvi, rabbi of Tiferet Yisrael, San Diego, California. Arrangement of a get
Rabbi Avraham Dov Hecht, rabbi of the Sha’arei Tziyon [Syrian] congregation and chairman of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. New York
Rabbi Nissan Telushkin, av beit din of Dukor and Puchovitch [Belarus], and one of the leading Orthodox rabbis in the United States. Author of Taharat Mayim . New York
Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Merilus, av beit din of Bucharest, Romania and several other cities, and one of the leading rabbis of Romania. Responsum with respect to names in gittin
Rabbi Shmuel Tuvia Stern, av beit din of Miami Beach
Rabbi Gedaliah Felder, Toronto, Canada. Request for rabbinic ordination for an avreich from Canada and more. (Two letters)
Rabbi Avraham Dov Niznik, av beit din of Montreal, Canada
Rabbi Avraham Aharon Price, av beit din and r”m in Toronto, Canada. (Four letters)
Rabbi Yechiel Michel Charlop, son of the gaon Rabbi Yechiel Michel, rabbi of the Jewish Center in the Bronx, New York, and Rabbi of Young Israel of Tremont. Establishment of a mikveh in Rio de Janeiro
Rabbi Meir HaKohen Pam, av beit din of Shedlitz in Brooklyn, NY. Establishment of a mikveh in Rio de Janeiro
Rabbi Chaim Ya’akov Levine, rabbi in Seattle and in Jersey City, United States, and later in Pardes Channah. Conversion topics. (Two letters)
Rabbi Nachum Moshe Marilus
Rabbi Yisrael Guttman, Iasi. (Two beit din documents)
Rabbi Alexander Yehudah Safran, chief rabbi of Geneva, Switzerland
Rabbi Pinchas Leitsch Segal Rosenbaum, av beit din of Kleinwardein and environs. Geneva, Switzerland. “The great miracle that occurred … during the six-day war”
Rabbi Yehudah Leibush Stern, Paris, France
Rabbi Azriel Chaikin, chief Orthodox rabbi of Brussels, Belgium
Rabbi Ya’akov Fink, Geneva
Rabbi Mordechai Piron, chief rabbi of the IDF and rabbi of Zurich, Switzerland. “To my great and renowned teacher and rabbi”
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Rabinowitz, chief rabbi of South Africa. Rabbinic ordination for two avreichim from South Africa
Rabbi Elio Raphael Toaff, chief rabbi and av beit din of Rome, Italy. Hetter agunah
Rabbi Eliyahu Sternbach, dayan and moreh tzeddek of Machsike HaDass in Antwerp, Belgium. (Possibly a copy)
Various sizes and conditions; overall fine condition.