Auction 48
Lot 108:
A certificate of a get on official letterhead signed by Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank and his beit din. Signed on 26th of Nissan 1944. It includes the full nusach of the original get. Signed by the dayanim: “Zvi Pesach ben Rabbi Yehuda Leib”, “Yosef Gershon HaRash”. “Eliyahu ben Rabbi Shlomo”. 21×27.5cm. Tear in the margins, stains.
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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