Auction 70 Part 2 Special auction: American and British Jewry, Ashkenaz Jewry and a special collection of Rodelheim books
By Moreshet
Dec 5, 2023
Harav Kook Street 10 Bnei Brak, Israel
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LOT 323:

Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Zvi Aharnson, Av Beit Din of New Britain and Author of Shiklei Yosef and Zirei Yosef ...

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Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Zvi Aharnson, Av Beit Din of New Britain and Author of Shiklei Yosef and Zirei Yosef - New Britain (Connecticut) 1936

Letter handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Zvi Aharnson, a disciple of the Saba of Slabodka and Av Beit Din of New Britain. Addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna the Rosh Yeshiva of Hebron - New Britain (Connecticut) 1936.


The content of the letter: financial support for the Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem. As a student og the Knesset Yisrael Slabodka Yeshiva, Rabbi Aharonson was a representative of the yeshiva in faraway Connecticut, seeing it as a privilege to raise funds for the yeshiva in his community. 


Official stationery. 

15X24 cm.

Filing holes. Good condition. 


The famed Gaon Rabbi Yosef Zvi Aharonson (1891-1987) one of the senior students of the Slabodka Yeshiva. Av Beit Din of New Britain, Connecticut - USA and member of the Union of Rabbis. Author of Shuklei Yosef on Masechet Shekalim and Sefer ZireiYosef of Yerushalmi Zera'im. His books were enthusiastically approbated by leading contemporary rabbis. 


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