Auction 19
Lot 246:
A letter on an official letterhead, squared paper. In the handwriting and with the signature of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky. Dated 15th Adar 1930. To his friend Rabbi Baruch, dayan of Pulra. Regarding permitting an agunah to remarry. | Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky [1863-1940], foremost scholar of his generation and leader of world Jewry. Rabbi of Vilna (despite never being officially appointed as there was no official Rabbi of Vilna since the death of the Vilna Gaon, out of respect for him), president of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah and author of the book of responsa Achiezer, considered the leader of Lithuanian ultra-orthodox Jewry at the time in which great rabbis such as the Chafetz Chaim and Rabbi Chaim of Brisk lived, and the Chafetz Chaim even used to refer to him as the "President of the Jewish People". Rare. | Fold marks. Restoration. | 26 cm. General condition: Good.
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