Auction 56
Lot 93:
Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Farber, rabbi and rosh yeshiva and author of the work Kerem HaZvi.
The letter was sent to Rabbi Yisrael Zissel Dvortz and to Rabbi Ram Valdersky. Rabbi Yisrael Zissel Dvortz was a renaissance man and enthusiastic activist. He was the editor of the booklet Tevunah, the printer of books by the Rishonim, the initiator of the move of the Slobodka yeshiva in Israel and, at the end of his life, settled in Bnei Brak where he established a factory for making charoset which would market its product overseas. In the letter, he thanks the recipient for the shipment of charoset and encourages Rav Dvortz to republish the work Shiltei Giborim by Rabbi Avraham ben David of Shaar Aryeh, printed in Mantua 1612, and at the end of the letter he includes wonderful divrei torah.
21x27cm.
Creases, good condition.
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Farber, the Kerem Zvi (1879-1967) was the son of Yehuda Leib of Slobodka. He studied under: Rabbi Yitzhak Elhanan in Kovna, Rabbi Yitzhak Belzer, Rabbi Moshe Danishevsky, Rabbi Naftali Amsterdam. He was rabbi in Kalikol-the Kovna district, in 1907. He later immigrated to England and served in the Etz Haim yeshiva in London, and Ram in the Manchester yeshiva (led by Rabbi Menachem Dov Danotzky). In 1910 he was appointed rabbi of a community in London. He was a founder and head of the Rabbinical Assembly in London. He authored Eshet Chayil and more, as well as many articles in journals of the period.
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