Auction 44
Lot 150:
Postcard handwritten and signed by the dayan Rabbi Dov Burnstein of Botshan (Av Beit Din), addressed after many title and adjectives to Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad, the Av Beit Din of Gura-Homora. From Thursday of Vayikra 1947. He refers to the recipient’s question regarding the kashrut of a beit bad for pesach and false rumours on the subject, and he addresses a few other halachot related to pesach, and signs his name.
Later he adds some interesting historic lines: “By the way: when I was last in Bucharest, I had the idea to found a Rabbinical Association for Charedim in Romania and Bukovina, whose goal would be to gather all of the central ideas of the Shulchan Aruch (as opposed to the doctors of philosophy who are not loyal to the mesorah in the fullest sense), into a single association and thus to be able to uplift Judaism and I would be honored to include your honor, shlita, to be appointed for a dvar mitzvah…”.
Original postcard, size 15x11cm. On the back is the address of the recipient and postage stamps. Folding creases, two tiny holes, stains.
Rabbi Dov Beer Burnstein of Botoshan, wrote the Chochmah v’Mussar (1892-1974), was the son of Rabbi Yehiel Michal and son-in-law of Rabbi Meshulam Feivush Miasi son of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak. He was a rabbi in Botoshan, dayan in Tel Aviv in 1958. He authored many articles in Maggid—Satmar 1928.
the recived: Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad (1900-1980) was rabbi and chassidic rosh yeshiva in Bukovina and Israel, a student of the Gaon Rabbi Meir Arik of Tornov. He inherited his father’s position, and after WWII tried to immigrate to Israel but was sent to Cyprus in 1948 by the British, where he served as rabbi of the detention camp. After making it to Israel he was in constant contact with the Chazon Ish. Around 1952 he was appointed for a time as the Rosh Yeshiva of Yechel Yisrael of the Seret-Vizhnitz Chassidic community, led by his son-in-law Admor Rabbi Baruch Hager.
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