Signatures of Notables of the Lviv Community - Early 19th Century - Signature of Rabbi Aharon of Chodorov, Ancestor ...

Signatures of Notables of the Lviv Community - Early 19th Century - Signature of Rabbi Aharon of Chodorov, Ancestor of the Rebbes of Sighet and Satmar
Leaf bearing signatures of many foremost rabbis, Torah scholars and prominent members of the Lviv community and the vicinity. [Lviv (Lemberg), Galicia, ca. 1800s-1820s]. The signatories include renowned rabbis and outstanding Torah scholars, associated with the large Jewish community of Lviv, in ca. 1800s-1820s. This leaf is the surviving part of a document (the nature of which is unknown to us - perhaps a rabbinic appointment, public regulation, or a Heter Me'ah Rabbanim). Some prominent signatories: R. Aharon Sternkler Rabbi of Chodorov (Khodoriv), disciple of R. Elimelech of Lizhensk and grandfather of the Yitav Lev Rebbe of Sighet; R. Yehuda Landau Rabbi of Włodawa - grandson of the Noda BiYehuda and author of Beit Yehuda; R. Shmuel Shmelke Ish Horowitz - grandson of the Haflaa; R. Ziskind Balaban - a signatory on the declaration against Chassidim in Lviv, 1794; and others. Below is a list of the signatories as they appear on the document: Heading the list is R. "Yehuda Landau Rabbi of Włodawa" - son of R. Yosef of Posen (Poznań) and grandson of the Noda BiYehuda. He served as rabbi of Włodawa. After the passing of his first wife, he moved to Lviv, and bequeathed the rabbinate to his son R. Yitzchak Landau. His book Beit Yehuda was published in 1831, after his passing. The signature of R. Yehuda Landau is followed by the signatures of twelve Torah scholars and notables of the Lviv community and the vicinity: • "[--?] Fischel Meizish" - R. Efraim Fischel Meizish, a notable of the Lviv community during the time of the Yeshuot Yaakov, and his mechutan. • "Shmuel Shmelke HaLevi Ish Horowitz" - R. Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz, grandson of the Haflaah and son of the Machaneh Levi, published the book Panim Yafot. Passed away in 1841. Father of R. Meir HaLevi Horowitz of Lubartów. • "Yosef Tzvi [son of --?] Rappaport". • "Avraham Leib Yalisch" - a notable of the community in the time of the Yeshuot Yaakov. His name is mentioned in various sources between 1800-1810. • "Moshe David Chacham Ovitz" (=Chachamovitch) - a descendant of Chacham Tzvi and cousin of R. Yaakov of Lissa the Netivot HaMishpat. He passed away ca. 1849. His son R. Naftali Tzvi Hirsh Chachamovitz published the books of the Netivot - Imrei Yosher in Dyhernfurth, 1815, and Nachalat Yaakov in Breslau, 1849. • "Naftali Hertz Kohen Rappaport" - R. Naftali Hertz Rappaport, a Lviv Torah scholar, father of R. Tzvi Hirsh Rappaport of Dubno who authored the Ezrat Kohanim commentary on Torat Kohanim. At the end of Part I of Ezrat Kohanim (Vilna, 1845), the son published a booklet of novellae from his late father R. Naftali Hertz (this booklet was omitted in later reprints. See: Moriah, 99-100, Kislev 1980, p. 86). • "Süsskind Balaban" - a community leader in Lviv, signatory on a declaration against Chassidim from 1794 (see: Mordechai Wilensky, Chassidim UMitnagdim, Vol. I, p. 179). • "Sender Shmelke of Lviv". • "Avraham Loiter Stein". • "Aryeh Leib Blomen HaLevi" - son of R. Naftali Hertz HaLevi Rabbi of Tarnogród. Nephew of the aforementioned R. Yehuda Landau, and uncle of the Yeshuot Yaakov. • "Aharon Stern Kler Rabbi of Chodorov" - Rabbi Aharon Sternkler, rabbi of Chodorov, disciple of R. Elimelech of Lizhensk the Noam Elimelech. Ancestor of the rebbes of Sighet and Satmar. Grandfather of the Yitav Lev of Sighet (he was the father-in-law of R. Elazar Nissan Teitelbaum, son of the Yismach Moshe). • "Moshe Mordechai Segal Ettinger" - R. Moshe Mordechai HaLevi Etting, a Lviv Torah scholar. Torah thoughts are quoted in his name at the end of Bigdei HaKodesh (Lviv, 1806), referring to him as "my cousin, the perspicacious and sharp R. Moshe Mordechai son of the late R. Eliezer Lipman HaLevi Ettinger Rabbi of Sanok". See enclosed material for more about the signatories. [1] leaf. 38 cm. Thin, high-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Wear and minor tears to folds. Light stains.