Tiferet - Auction 50 of the Tiferet Auction House
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LOT 108:
Letter of Approbation and Blessings Handwritten by Rabbi Mordechai Brisk of Tashnad
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Sold for: $600 (₪2,322)
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Letter of Approbation and Blessings Handwritten by Rabbi Mordechai Brisk of Tashnad
Letter of approbation and blessings handwritten by the holy Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Brisk of Tashnad (Tăşnad), one of the leading rabbis of Hungary and the Rosh Yeshiva of the largest yeshiva in Transylvania. 1941.
Approbation for a book published by Rabbi Zvi Moskovich of Margereten.
In the fine approbation he wrote, he refers to his weakness, noting that he had asked his dear son-in-law the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Greenberg, Moreh Tzedek of Tashnad, to go over what he had written and make comments.
The approbation was given in 1941, in the midst of World War II. The war had not yet reached Hungary yet the Rav of Tashnad was occupied with writing Heiter Agunot for women who were wandering through Europe.
In the letter, he notes that he is surrounded by "חבילי טרדין", apparently referring to the state of war and the many responses he devotedly wrote in an attempt to save Agunot.
The Tzaddik Gaon Rabbi Mordechai of Brisk [1886-1944] the son of the Tzaddik Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua of Brisk Av Beis Din of Tisa- Dada. On his mother's side, he was a grandson of Rabbi Menachem gershon Greenwald Rosh Av Beis Din of Kerestir, the son-in-law of Rabbi Shmel Zalman Weinberger Av Beis Din of Margeretin.
Served as Dayan of Margereten and since 1919, as the Rav of Tashnad and the vicinity, heading the largest yeshiva in Romania before the Holocaust.
[1] blank paper. Handwritten and signed by him and with his stamp. Fold lines. Slight wear. Good-very good condition.
