Auction 47
Lot 108:
Letter on official letterhead, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Alter Shaul Pfeffer, Av Beit Din of the Beit Midrash HaGadol in New York. From Thursday of the week of Bereishit, 1975. Addressed to “Rabbi Gaon HaGadol Maharash shlita(?)”.
He writes: “Today a woman came to me, Mrs. … to receive a definitive answer and she shed tears, saying that she is very poor and has a debt and requested that we act to give her eight hundred or at least seven hundred so that she’ll have five hundred left to do some business and her husband is a wealthy man and she gave him the ability to raise capital because she would skimp on expenses … Great on me and a great mitzvah will be considered to give her the opportunity to have something to make a living from … Yes, I will continue to write about finding a decent solution to this misery.” At the end he puts his handwritten signature.
21X28 cm. Folding marks, good general condition.
The Gaon Rabbi Alter Shaul Pfeffer was the son of Rabbi Israel Elimelech. He was the author of the Avnei Zichron responsa (Marmarosh Sighet 1923) and had lots of yichus, grandson of Gaon Rabbi Shaul Brach of Brod and Rabbi the Megaleh Amukot and the Shlah and Rosh Koidinover and more. He served as rabbi in the Great Synagogue of the Hungarian community and of Marmarosh in New York.
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