Auction 4
Lot 208:
On official letterhead from when he was a member of the High Rabbinical Court in Tel Aviv. Addressed to Rabbi Mrodechai Yafeh Schlesinger, Av Beit Din of Tel Aviv. Rabbi Yitzhak Kolitz (1922-2003) was Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Jerusalem, and a dayan in the High Rabbinical Court. He served for a short time as Ram at Hevron yeshiva and was then appointed head of the Klatzk yeshiva in Rehovot. Rabbi 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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