Auction 44
Lot 134:
Letter on official letterhead, handwritten and signed by the gaon Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank, from Tevet of 1938, addressed to Rabbi Yehuda Leib Zeltzer, on issues of gittin and agunot, with lines expressing respect and care for the holy work carried out by rabbis: “…they say that the husband’s intention is just to cause harm to the woman and to chain her for her entire life and she is embittered and is crying over the days of her youth which are coming and going without a means to earn a living and to support her children, thus if there is a way to force him using any means to do so…and with God at his hand he will be able to influence him not to act with cruelty to embitter her life over nothing…I am his friend Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank.” On the back of the leaf are additional lines. SizE: 27.5×21.5cm. 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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