Auction 77
Lot 202:
A unique Melamdut agreement from the first years in Eretz Yisrael of the Chassid Gaon Rabbi Binyamin Mendelson Gaon Av Beit Din of Komemiyut – when he was Av Beit Din of Kiryat Ata – Kefar Ata, 1937.
The unique Melamdut agreement was signed before the Holocaust between the Talmud Torah Committee established by the Gaon Av Beit Din of Komemiyut and the Melamed Rabbi Stockhamer. The agreement was written on both sides of a single leaf and has 7 clauses peratining to hsi salary, the schedule and the physical conditions at the Talmud Torah.
On the lower part of the leaf, Rabbeinu added lines confirming the agreement handwritten and signed by him:
"כל הנ"ל נעשה בפני ומרצון טוב של שני הצדדין והשי"ת יושיע שיצליח בהמפעל הקדוש לכבוד השי" ותוה"ק ולמען תשב"ר וע"ז באעה"ח בנימין מנדלזון רב דפה"
Rabbeniu is famed as Gaon Av Beit Din of Komemiyut and his work for the Shemitah; his enterprises as Av Beit Din of Kefar Ata are less known but are indicated by this agreement, which was signed three years after he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael.
The Chassid Gaon Rabbi Binyamin Mendelson (1904-1979) the son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Mendelson who was Rav in Plock, Poland and n Alexander Chassid. In 1934, having been influenced by the Admor the Imrei Emet of Ger, he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and was appointed the Rav of Kfar Ata and later as the Rav of the Chareidi settlement Komemiyut. Made efforts to observe the Shemita uncompromisingly. Was arrested during the affair of the abducted child Yossaleh Shuchmacher and Gedolei Hador made efforts to release him.
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