Document on the existence of a messenger to receive a get, signed by the Gaon Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank and his beit din.

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Handwritten document on official letterhead of the “Supreme Beit Din for the Ashkenazi Communities of Jerusalem”, from Iyar 1943. Opens with the words: “Evidence of the testimony brought before the undersigned…” regarding the witnesses who saw with their own eyes the appointment of an emissary by a woman, ending with “what was done before us and which we heard and saw, we have written and signed, regarding the sending of an acceptance of a get, everything is correct and aboveboard, Noam Yitzhak bar Shlomo Zalman z”l, witness, and Noam Avraham David ben Chaim Shlomo, witness.” After are a number of handwritten lines with words of the beit din on the signatures of the witnesses. “Made clear to us, the Badatz, handwritten signatures of the above are indeed their handwritten signatures and we have approved this, for this reason we are signing, Beit Din Tzedek, Jerusalem, Zvi Pesach ben Yehuda Leib, Rabbi and Av Beit Din. Yosef Gershon ben Shmuel Horwitz, Eliyahu Shlomo Ram.” Official stamp of the beit din. Size 20x28cm. Signs of folding, generally good condition.

Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank (1873-1961) was the son of Rabbi Yehuda Leib. He was a great posek in his generation, a founder of the Chief Rabbinate, member of the Chief Rabbinical Council and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem between 1936-1961. Born in Kovna (Kaunas), he studied at Telz and Slobodka yeshivot, and after moving to Israel continued his studies at the Torat Chayim yeshiva. In 1908 he was appointed a dayan at the Ashkenazi Prushi Beit Din in Jerusalem. In 1918 he was appointed Av Beit Din, and after the death of Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, but he refused to serve simultaneously as Chief Rabbi of Israel. Thousands of his tshvuot on halacha have been printed in his series of books, Shut Har Zvi.

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