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Rare: Fascinating Historic Letter from the Jewish Banker Rabbi Akiva Lehren
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Rare: Fascinating Historic Letter from the Jewish Banker Rabbi Akiva Lehren
Fascinating historic-Torah letter, handwritten and signed by the renowned Jewish banker Rabbi Akiva Lehren, head of the Clerks and Administrators in Amsterdam, about the
heter iska of the prominent Holland and Lehren bank, at whose helm he stood. Amsterdam, 1872. Letters from him are very rare. As far as we know, no letter of his has ever been published.
This letter was sent to the gaon Rabbi Zekkel, son of Rabbi Y.D. Bamberger, one of the dayanim in Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's beit din in Frankfurt am Main. As can be inferred, the letter deals with financial halachahs regarding the bank's funds and its heter iska, which was prepared by Rabbi Aharon Fuld, a dayan in Frankfurt am Main. Rabbi Akiva complains in this letter about the scribes who do not transcribe the shtar in its original form, causing "my heart to constantly hesitate about it." As such, Rabbi Akiva writes a harsh line about this: "For myself, my soul has been yearning and I have wanted to finish dealing with this for a long time [!] - but the sustenance of many respected widows and orphans depends on these business dealings and this has prevented from me from following through ..." At the end of the letter, Rabbi Akiva requests from the addressee, in his humility, not to send him another halachic question, "because I have not reached the ankles of the morei hora'ah ..."
Modern banking was a profession occupied by extraordinarily wealthy Jews (such as the Rothschild family). The reasons for the success of the Jews in the field of banking are varied, from the unique connections between Jews from different countries and through their level of intelligence and higher education. However, the main reason, as is also evident from every line of this letter, was the intensity of their fear of G-d and their absolute integrity in matters of finance, which attracted depositors and borrowers who preferred to do business with them.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of
Rabbi Akiva Lehren.
[1] leaf graph paper, with an embossed stamp at the top. 22 cm.
Fine condition. Tiny tears in the margins with damage to a single word.
