Two Halachic Responsa with New Year Blessings - In the Handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld

Two Halachic Responsa with New Year Blessings - In the Handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld
Two unsigned letters in the handwriting of R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, sent to R. Shlomo Sobol of Jerusalem. [ca. 1926].
Brief halachic responsa. In one letter [from the month of Elul 1926], R. Sonnenfeld concludes with New Year wishes "Who blesses you with a ketiva V'chatima tova to be inscribed immediately in the books of perfect tsaddikim with all the tsaddikim of the Jewish People, Amen". This letter is written on the verso of the letter of question handwritten by R. Shlomo Sobol (signed: "Shlomo Sobol of the holy yeshiva here in the Holy Land". Jerusalem, 1926. On the verso of the second letter, R. Sobol added a copy of his question [not signed]. At the beginning of both letters, R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld writes that the content of his responsa is not for practice "because it is only the way his opinion is inclined".
R. Shlomo Sobol (born in c. 1880s-1890s-died in 1970), son-in-law of the Jerusalem Maggid R. Ben Zion Adler, sent many halachic queries to rabbis all over the world, especially to R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rabbi of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem. These responsa were printed by R. Sobol in his Salmat Chaim books which were published in a series of booklets during 1933-1970. Later, they were printed in two expanded editions (Bnei Brak, 1995; Jerusalem, 2007). R. Shlomo Sobol wrote that he possessed 152 letters which contained more than 1000 responsa of R. Y. C. Sonnenfeld written to him during 1922-1932. The first editions of Salmat Chaim contained only about half of the responsa, and many responsa were added to the new editions according to copies and manuscripts.
The letters of responsa offered here were printed in Salmat Chaim (2007 edition: Part of Orach Chaim Siman 244; Siman 174; Siman 207; Siman 150; Siman 341; Part of Yoreh De'ah Siman 59).
2 letters, [4] written pages. 20.5 cm. Good-fair condition, minor tears.