Letter of Torah novellae from Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Meisels, av”d in Lask, Poland, sent to Rabbi Shaul Moshe Zilberman, av”d in Viroshov, when he was in Tel Aviv. Lask, early 20th century.
[1] postcard. 9×14 cm. Signed autograph. Postmarked Lask. Not dated.
The letter is a continuation of a previous letter, and supplements halachic arguments that the writer intended to include while he was writing the previous letter.
Rabbi Zvi Aryeh Yehudah Yaakov Meisels was born in 1851 in Shadik, Poland. His father was Rabbi Yitzchak Eizik Elimelech. He was the noted rabbi of Lask for about sixty years and was a prominent scholar in both the hidden and revealed aspects of Torah and a posek. He authored the Shu”t Chedvat Yaakov. He passed away in Kislev 1931.Rabbi Shaul Moshe Zilberman was born in 1850. His father was Rabbi David Dov, av”d Nashelsk, grandson of Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa. He was a chassid of Kotzk, a genius, proficient Torah scholar and posek with expertise in the entire Torah. He was a disciple of the Admor of Sochotchov, the Avnei Nezer. He learned under Rabbi Yisrael Yehoshua of Kutna and was close to the Sefat Emet and Imrei Emet of Gur. He authored the Shu”t Rabbi Shaul Moshe on the four sections of the Shulchan Aruch, Pardes Shaul on the Torah, and Chiddushei Rabbi Shaul Moshe.
Stains on the back, aging stains, fold marks. Fine condition.