Auction 38
Lot 173:
2 receipts of the “Vaad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael Jerusalem”, signed by Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank. Average size: 18×9+cm. 1 receipt of the “Yeshiva HaKedusha Shaar HaShamayim”, signed by the kabbalist Rabbi Haim Yuda Leib Auerbach. With the yeshiva’s stamp. Size: 11x13cm. Staple holes.
Rabbi Haim Yehuda Leib Auerbach (1887-1954) was the father of the Gaon Posek Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, and the 7th generation from the Admor Rabbi Yakkov Yosef of Polna, a student of the Baal Shem Tov. He was certified for the rabbinate by Rabbi Haim Berlin at age 18, and in 1906 he founded the Shaar Shamayim kabbalistic yeshiva, even though he was less than 20 years old when it was established.
Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank (1874-1961) was a great posek of his generation, a founder of the Chief Rabbinate, member of the Chief Rabbinate and Chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Jerusalem from 1936-1961.
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