Auction 51 Part I - Books Chassidism Manuscripts Rabbinical Letters
Jul 11, 2016 (Your local time)
Israel
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LOT 280:

Collection of Letters by Rabbis - Concerning the Study of a Daf Yomi of the Zohar

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A collection of letters by rabbis, regarding the initiative of Rabbi Rubinfein to instate study of a Daf HaYomi of the Zohar. Jerusalem, 1931.
· Letter (2 pages) handwritten and signed by Rabbi "David Mordechai son of R' Chaim" Rubinfein "author of the books Kol HaKoreh," the initiator of the idea. On the margins of the second page of his letter are several lines handwritten and signed by Rabbi "Zelig Braverman" [one of the heads of the Meah She'arim Yeshiva], and several lines handwritten by Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, with his signature and stamp "Yosef Chaim" - who praises the idea with certain reservations: "It is definitely a mitzvah for all who are able to study the Parasha each week [in the Zohar], however, those who cannot, should study one Daf and should not accept this practice with a vow…".
· Letters by rabbis: Rabbi Elimelech HaCohen Rubinstein, the Rabbi of Rachów; Rabbi Avraham Philosoph, head of the Sephardi Beit Din; Rabbi Mordechai Rashkes, Rabbi of Joniškis (Yanishok). Rabbi David Yitzchak Magin, Rabbi of Derechin; Rabbi Yehoshua Alter Wildman; Rabbi Simcha Bunim Werner; Rabbi Gershon Yehuda Zilberman, Rabbi of Praga, Warsaw [member of the Badatz Eda HaCharedit].
Rabbi David Mordechai Rubinfein (1873-1933), a Zvhil Chassid, Torah scholar and kabbalist, Rabbi of Komargorod, Podolia, immigrated to Jerusalem in the 1920s. Authored the Kol Koreh mussar books (Zhitomir 1902; Berdychiv, 1913; Jerusalem 1927). Photos of these letters were included in the new edition of Kol HaKoreh (Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, 1978),
printed by his youngest son-in-law, Rabbi Binyamin Yehoshua Zilber known as "Binyamin HaTsaddik".
9 written pages, approximately 20 cm. Good-poor condition. Wear and stains. Laminated.

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