Auction 41
Lot 143:
Handwritten letter on official letterhead of the Beit Din of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem. From 12th Iyar 1939, addressed to the Meah She’arim Committee administration, in which they notify them of an unnamed person refusing to appear before the Beit Din, so they are permitted to give his money deposited by them to the person to whom he was in debt. Signed: Zvi Pesach Frank, Yosef Gershon Horwitz, Eliyahu Ram. Official (blurred) stamp. Size: 16×20.5cm. Stains and light tears at the edges, folding creases.
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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