“Rabbi Yosef Reiss, brother-in-law of the Rahag Av Beit Din of Liska”—letter written and signed by Rabbi Yehuda Greenwald, author of Kol Yehuda, addressed to Rabbi Yitzhak Rosenberg, Av Beit Din of Hajdúhadház, regarding the kashrut of brandy.
He asked Rav Rosenberg to clarify for him something that was said about the kashrut of brandy: “and now I heard from a visitor that many have criticized this brandy because, they said, the mashgiach didn’t do his work in a trustworthy manner and is selling brandy done by baalei batim and is suspicious and is being advertised to the non-religious and thus is suspected of not being trustworthy.”
On the back of the leaf are a number of Yiddish divrei torah, handwritten by Rabbi Yitzhak Rosenberg, Av Beit din of Hajdúhadház, seems to be a draft of a drash.
22x18cm. Tears with missing parts of both sides, tears, overall fair condition.
The gaon Rabbi Yehuda Greenfeld, author of Kol Yehuda (died 1907), was a gaon and baki, a student of the Kol Aryeh, whom he studied with as a chavruta for nights at a time. He travelled to study under the Divrei Chaim as well, and would often reside in Sanz for months until the Divrei Chaim ordered him to return home, and would also enjoy the divrei torah of the Admor Yeitev Lev, who said of him “whoever has lost the tosafot on Shas can ask Rabbi Yudeleh Khuster”. In Khust he also visited the Maharam Schick, who advised with him on psikat halacha. A number of years later he was appointed Av Beit Din of Bűdszentmihály and opened a yeshiva there, where many studied from that generation. The Divrei Yoel of Satmar was one of the gedolim given smicha by him and he found it very important. His son was the gaon Maharshag, his successor in Bűdszentmihály and author of the Shut Maharshag.
