Auction 4
Lot 206:
On official letterhead from when he lived in Jerusalem, written to Rav Mordechai Yafeh Schlesinger, with a chiddush from his father-in-law, Rav Haim Meir Unger, Av Beit Din of Lakenbach. Rav Natan Geshtetner (1932-2010) was Av Beit Din of Agudat Yisrael in Bnei Brak and head of the Panim Me’irot yeshiva. Known as the Me’orot Natan. Son of Rav Amram Geshtetner, a descendant of the Chatam Sofer and Rav Meir Eisenstatt (the Panim Me’irot). Son-in-law of Rav Haim Meir Unger. Rav Mordechai Yafeh-Schlesinger (1909-1998) was a student of the Da’at Sofer, of Rabbi Moshe Leib Yosef Yafeh-Schlesinger of Regendorf, and Rabbi Yehoshua Meisenstatt, whom he succeeded as rabbi of Eisenstatt after his death. He moved to Jerusalem in 1939, served as dayan in Tel Aviv and rabbi of Chatam Sofer community there. Father of Rav Avraham Yafeh-Schlesinger (born in 1948), former rabbi of Mechzikei HaDat in Geneva and today the head of the Betzel HaChochma community in Jerusalem.
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