Auction 44
Lot 157:
Letter handwritten and signed by the gaon Rabbi Avraham Dov Beer Shapira, on official letterhead. Addressed to the Rabbinical Association of the US and Canada. He recommends an avrech, Shmuel Wolch, with great descriptions: “I know the above avrech to be very great in Torah, extremely learned and deep, with wonderful chiddushim that fill entire books!.” This letter was sent in 1939 in Zurich (Switzerland), where he was residing to recover from an illness. When WWII broke out, his son begged him to flee Europe from Switzerland and come to the US, but he refused and returned to his community in Kovna, where he died from his illness in 1943 and was buried at a mass funeral.
22x28cm. Folding creases, overall good condition.
Rabbi Avraham Dov Beer Shapira hy”d (1871-1943) was the last rabbi of the Kovna community, a great posek of the 20th century and a leader of Lithuanian Jewry. Son-in-law of the Gadol of Minsk (Rabbi Yerucham Yehuda Leib Perlman). His book Davar Avraham is well-known in the yeshiva world and among poskim. He perished during the Shoah.
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