Auction 48

Certificate handwritten and signed by Rabbi Meir Chaim Unger, Av Beit Din of Lackenbach—Jerusalem 1953.

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A sheet of notebook paper on which is written out by hand and signed by Rabbi Meir Chaim Unger something for the Rebbetzin Rivka Rachel (Berger, wife of Rabbi Mordechai Chana Berger), the daughter of Rabbi Aharon Yosef Luria of Tiberias (the forefather of the Vizhnitzer Luria family), from Wednesday of the week of Ki Tetzeh 1953 in Jerusalem. Filing holes.

Rabbi Meir Chaim Unger was the Av Beit Din of Lackenbach (1905-1958). He was born in Tzelem (Deutschkreutz), the son of Rabbi Yaakov. His father-in-law was Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen Krauss, Av Beit Din of Lackenbach. In 1934 he succeeded his father-in-law in the rabbinate. He moved to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. He wrote Maor Chaim and Maor HaTorah. He was the father-in-law of the gaon Rabbi Natan Gestetner.