Auction 44
Lot 256:
Official wedding certificate of the Eida Charedit Jerusalem, signed by the mesader kedushin Rabbeinu Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam. Written for the marriage of Naftali Haim Wieder ben Rabbi Avraham Zvi of Dragomirst (Romania) and Sima Zonenfeld, the daughter of Rabbi Avraham Dov Zonenfeld of Jerusalem. 25x25cm. Light tears, filing holes, light creases, good condition.
Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam (1904-1994) was the son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Rodnik. He was the grandson of Admor Rabbi Baruch of Gorlitz and great-grandson of the Divrei Haim of Zans. He was a student of Rabbi David Zvi Zehman of Dukla. His father died when he was 14 and he gave a long eulogy for him. He was son-in-law to Rabbi Haim Teitelbaum of Sighet, the Atzei Haim, and he studied under him. He served as Rabbi of Klausenberg in 1926, in a community which split because of the Zionist tendencies of the local rabbi Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glazner. He was accepted as Rabbi of Rodnik as successor to his father but he didn’t move there. He was saved from the Shoah but his wife and 11 children were murdered, and then he worked to strengthen religious life in the Displaced Persons camps. He immigrated to New York in 1947 and to Union City where he set up his yeshiva.
His second marriage was to the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel David Unger of Nietra. He moved to Israel and established Kriyat Sanz in Netanya in 1960. Most of his works were lost in the Shoah. He wrote Shefa Haim, Yehi Or, and Shut Divrei Yatziv. He established the Mifal HaShas to encourage repetitive learning of the Shas. He established the title of Morenu, which every avrech receives who knows around 1000 pages of Shas. He worked to institute the shita of Rabbeinu Tam with shkiya and bein hashmashot, and established Laniado Hospital in Netanya.
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