Letters of Halachic Responsa, by Rabbi Dov Zvi Karelinstein and Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin – Heads of the Badatz of ...

Letters of Halachic Responsa, by Rabbi Dov Zvi Karelinstein and Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin – Heads of the Badatz of the Eda HaCharedit – Jerusalem, 1920s
Article handwritten and signed by Rabbi "Dov Zvi" Karelinstein, about "the law of two batei din in one city". A responsum on his article (on the same leaf) handwritten and signed by the Ra'avad Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin, who signs "Respectfully and with wishes for a blessed good New Year – M.L.". Another letter of "responsum on the words of D.R.G." handwritten and signed by Rabbi "Dov Zvi". [Jerusalem, 1920s].
the renowned Rabbi Dov Zvi Karelinstein (1857-1930) Av Beit Din of Malkinia (adjacent to Lomza). In his youth, he studied at the Slobodka and Eišiškės Yeshivot. He taught Torah in the yeshiva founded by his father in Lomza and in the yeshiva of Rabbi Yitzchak Grodzhinsky in Warsaw. In 1922, Rabbi Yosef Sonnenfeld asked him to ascend to Jerusalem to serve as Ra'avad in his Beit Din, the "Beit Din of all the Askenazi communities" of the Eda HaCharedit in Jerusalem. However, after he immigrated to Eretz Israel, he refused to serve as Ra'avad and requested that his friend Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin be appointed Ra'avad in his stead.
Rabbi Mordechai Leib Rubin 91871-1929), son of Rabbi Ya'akov Gershon Rabinowitz [brother of the famous bibliographer R' Michel Rabinowitz of Jerusalem]. Studied at the Slabodka and Mir Yeshivot. In 1894 immigrated to Jerusalem, and from 1904 served in the rabbinate of settlements in Eretz Israel and of Jerusalem. One of the early members of the Beit Din of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and from 1924 was appointed Ra'avad of the Beit Din of the Eda HaCharedit.
2 leaves. 28.5 cm. Fair condition, wear and tear to folds and margins.