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LOT 28:
Letter by Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz Av Beit Din of Minsk, Son-in-law of the Gadol of Minsk, 1915.
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Letter by Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz Av Beit Din of Minsk, Son-in-law of the Gadol of Minsk, 1915.
Autograph letter of recommendation by Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz Av Beit Din of Minsk. Minsk, 1915.Rabbi Eliezer Rabinowitz (1859-1924), a leading Torah scholar of his times, outstanding prodigy, famous for his exceptional cleverness. Many complex Torah issues were referred to him and he participated in the rabbinical conventions in St. Petersburg at which public issues were discussed. At the time he studied in Slutzk from the author of Beit HaLevi and later in the Volozhin Yeshiva he was dubbed the "Gaon of Kiev". Son-in-law of Rabbi Yerucham Leib "The Great Rabbi of Minsk", author of Or Gadol, he succeeded him in the Minsk rabbinate. He became one of the most prominent Lithuanian rabbis and also earned the title of the "Great Rabbi of Minsk". After the communist revolution began in 1917, the rabbi was jailed in a Russian prison and eventually released, but this did not dampen his spirit and he continued leading his community as before, in spite of the persecution by the governing rulers. The remnants of his Torah novellae were covertly smuggled from Russia and printed in the book Mishnat Eliezer (Jerusalem, 1962).
Size: 20 x 13 cm.
Condition: Good condition, has a repair.
