Huge Collection of Letters [33] from Gedolim in the United States, Canada and Europe

Huge Collection of Letters [33] from Gedolim in the United States, Canada and Europe

Important collection of thirty-three original letters handwritten and signed by prominent Diaspora rabbis including chief rabbis of various countries and major cities. United States, Canada and Europe, mid-late 19th to mid-late 20th centuries. C. 1870-1970.

The letters are full of important content in pan-Judaic international and rabbinic halachic topics. These include the establishment of Torah institutions and mikva'ot, conversion-related topics, get documents [shaliach l'holchah], heterei agunot, rabbinic ordinations and much, much more.

• Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, one of the most prominent American poskim and head of the Ezrat Torah Association. New York
• Beit din of Montreal, under the leadership of Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung, Montreal, Canada, to the beit din in Haifa. Sending a get from one place to another
• Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung, chief rabbi of Montreal, Canada. Items stolen from a Haifa synagogue
• Rabbi Eliyahu Jung, one of the most prominent American rabbis, a leader of the "Joint" and of the OU. New York. (Two letters)
• Rabbi Yosef Yehoshua Apfel, av beit din of Leeds, England. (Two letters)
• Rabbi Moshe b"r Tzvi, rabbi of Tiferet Yisrael, San Diego, California. Arrangement of a get
• Rabbi Avraham Dov Hecht, rabbi of the Sha'arei Tziyon [Syrian] congregation and chairman of the Rabbinical Alliance of America. New York
• Rabbi Nissan Telushkin, av beit din of Dukor and Puchovitch [Belarus], and one of the leading Orthodox rabbis in the United States. Author of Taharat Mayim. New York
• Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Merilus, av beit din of Bucharest, Romania and several other cities, and one of the leading rabbis of Romania. Responsum with respect to names in gittin
• Rabbi Shmuel Tuvia Stern, av beit din of Miami Beach
• Rabbi Gedaliah Felder, Toronto, Canada. Request for rabbinic ordination for an avreich from Canada and more. (Two letters)
• Rabbi Avraham Dov Niznik, av beit din of Montreal, Canada
• Rabbi Avraham Aharon Price, av beit din and r"m in Toronto, Canada. (Four letters)
• Rabbi Yechiel Michel Charlop, son of the gaon Rabbi Yechiel Michel, rabbi of the Jewish Center in the Bronx, New York, and Rabbi of Young Israel of Tremont. Establishment of a mikveh in Rio de Janeiro
• Rabbi Meir HaKohen Pam, av beit din of Shedlitz in Brooklyn, NY. Establishment of a mikveh in Rio de Janeiro
• Rabbi Chaim Ya'akov Levine, rabbi in Seattle and in Jersey City, United States, and later in Pardes Channah. Conversion topics. (Two letters)
• Rabbi Nachum Moshe Marilus
• Rabbi Yisrael Guttman, Iasi. (Two beit din documents)
• Rabbi Alexander Yehudah Safran, chief rabbi of Geneva, Switzerland
• Rabbi Pinchas Leitsch Segal Rosenbaum, av beit din of Kleinwardein and environs. Geneva, Switzerland. "The great miracle that occurred ... during the six-day war"
• Rabbi Yehudah Leibush Stern, Paris, France
• Rabbi Azriel Chaikin, chief Orthodox rabbi of Brussels, Belgium
• Rabbi Ya'akov Fink, Geneva
• Rabbi Mordechai Piron, chief rabbi of the IDF and rabbi of Zurich, Switzerland. "To my great and renowned teacher and rabbi"
• Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Rabinowitz, chief rabbi of South Africa. Rabbinic ordination for two avreichim from South Africa
• Rabbi Elio Raphael Toaff, chief rabbi and av beit din of Rome, Italy. Hetter agunah
• Rabbi Eliyahu Sternbach, dayan and moreh tzeddek of Machsike HaDass in Antwerp, Belgium. (Possibly a copy)

Various sizes and conditions; overall fine condition.