Letter signed by Rabbi Gavriel Zeev Margalioy, Ra’avad of Adat Yisrael, New York and the beit din of Haifa rabbis ...

Letter signed by Rabbi Gavriel Zeev Margalioy, Ra’avad of Adat Yisrael, New York and the beit din of Haifa rabbis, from Tammuz 1926.

Letter on official letterhead, handwritten and signed by the Beit Din of Adat Yisrael in New York, led by the Ra’avad Rabbi Gavriel Zeev Margaliyot, on the subject of witnesses and the existence of a get. Signed: “Nahum Gavriel Zeev Margaliyot, Ra’avad of Adat Yisrael, New York, and Nahum Yeshaya ben HaRav Karlinsky, Rabbi in New York, and Noam Ozer bar Zvi Sacks, dayan.” With the official stamp of the Ra’avad. Size: 15x24cm. Filing holes, one of which damages the text. Stains, bolding of the names, generally good condition.

Ra’avad Rabbi Gavriel Zeev Margaliyot (1848-1935), son of Rabbi Yehiel Yitzhak, was the student of Rabbi Yaakov Barit of Vilna, son-in-law of Rabbi Nahum Shemesh Kaplan of Horodna. He served as rabbi in Dobrovna in 1876, in Biasinovka in 1878, in Horodna in place of his father-in-law in 1880. He signed many takanot and agreements, authored the letter Tel Talpiyot in 1905 against Zionism and the Mizrahi movement. He was rabbi in Boston in 1908, in New York in 1912. He authored many books in different professions: “Shem Olam”, “Torat Gavriel”, “Gnizei Margaliyot” in 1921, “Charuzei Margaliyot” Jerusalem 1912, and more.

Rabbi Yeshaya Karlinsky of Pochovitz (1877-1945) was the son of Rabbi Avraham Dov Beer, son-in-law of Rabbi Nahum Gershon Bilitzky of Yasnikova (the Ginat Bitan). He was a descendant of Rabbi Pinchas Horwitz (the Hafla’ah). Studied in the Radin, Isishok, Kovna-Slobodka yeshivot, and was known as the “Ilui of Zambrova”. He was certified by: Rabbi Malchiel Zvi HaLevi of Kovna (the Divrei Malchiel), Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Rabinowitz of Kovna, Rabbi Refael Shapira. Served as rabbi in Libonitz (next to Bovrevisk) in 1903, in Pochovitz in the Minsk region in 1907, and participated in the Petersburg rabbinical assembly during the Communist Revolution, and immigrated to the US in 1924, where he served in many communities and leader of the Va’ad HaPoel of the American Rabbinical Assembly. His chiddushim remain in manuscript.