Large Archive of Rabbinical Letters and Letters of Semicha to the Rabbinate - Rabbis and Heads of Yeshivas from ...

Large Archive of Rabbinical Letters and Letters of Semicha to the Rabbinate - Rabbis and Heads of Yeshivas from Europe and from Eretz Israel
Large archive (more than 60 items) of letters of semicha (ordination) and other letters written by famous rabbis, sent to Rabbi David Brodman, Rabbi of Savyon, who previously served in the Amsterdam rabbinate.
Letters of semicha to the rabbinate, by Rabbi David Povarsky, head of Ponovezh Yeshiva, Rabbi Aryeh Ze'ev Gurwicz head of Gateshead Yeshiva, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Shlomo Goren.
The collection contains letters by famous rabbis: Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, Rabbi Aryeh Ze'ev Gurvicz (2 letters), Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padova; Rabbi Shimon Schwab; Rabbi Eliezer Platchinsky; Rabbi Chaim Friedlander (3 letters); Rabbi Hillel Medalia of Antwerp (4 letters); Rabbi Ben Zion Rakov of London; Rabbi Yisrael Brody, Chief Rabbi of Lucerne (4 letters); Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; Rabbi Moshe Zvi Neria [in which he disapproves of the ways of the head of the Bnei Akiva movement]; Rabbi Shmuel David Munk (2 letters); Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe Aharonson; Rabbi Binyamin Yehoshua Zilber; an authorization of a conversion performed at the Savyon Beit Din [with signatures of Rabbi David Brodman, Rabbi Amram Blau - head of the Neturei Karta and Rabbi Nachum Yitzchak Frank]; many more letters from rabbis from the Netherlands, Europe and Eretz Israel.
Rabbi Brodman, born in Rotterdam, Holland survived the concentration camps and later studied at the Gateshead and Ponovezh Yeshivot. He served as rabbi and Dayan in Amsterdam for 10 years. In 1973, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Savyon, in which he established Torah institutes and a kollel.
About 60 letters in 69 leaves. Size and condition vary. Most letters are in very good condition.