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LOT 64:
Emphatic Letter Handwritten and Signed by the 'Even HaAzel'. Jerusalem, 1942
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Emphatic Letter Handwritten and Signed by the 'Even HaAzel'. Jerusalem, 1942
Important letter entirely in the hand and with the signature of the author of Even HaAzel, the gaon Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, to the Vaad HaShechitah HaMeuchadah of the Va'ad HaKehillah - the long and antiquated name of the most famous kashrut system 'Bada"tz HaEdah HaChareidit.' Jerusalem, Elul, 1941.
Letter to the United Ritual Slaughter Committee, in which Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer demands they concern themselves with providing a salary for the rabbinic instructors. He expands on this saying that in all communities, the income from ritual slaughter goes first and foremost to the rabbis' needs, yet in Jerusalem, the rabbis' [financial] situation is very difficult.
Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer [1870-1953] was the author of Even HaAzel. He was a disciple of the Netziv and of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik in Volozhin. He served as the rosh yeshivah in Slobodka and then as rosh yeshivah in Slutzk beginning in 1897, and as rabbi of that city beginning in 1903. He served as rosh yeshivah of Etz Chaim starting in 1925, and continued there until his passing.
Stationery paper, 28x21 cm.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Filing perforations that are torn off
