Auction 56
Lot 211:
Long tshuva (3 typewritten pages) with the additional handwriting and signature of Rabbeinu, written in London on the 10th of Shvat 1963, addressed to Rabbi Moshe Meir Schlesinger regarding whether one must be makpid in today’s world regarding terumah that gets lost. He ends with a couple lines asking the recipient to say more on the subject if he has because he wanted to print out the tshuva—and it was indeed printed in his book Cheshev HaEfod, siman 118. Creases, overall very good condition.
Rabbi Chanoch Dov (Henich) Padwa [1908-2000], Av Beit Din of the Union of Ultra-Orthodox Congregations in London and author of the responsa "Chashav Ha’Efod". When he immigrated to the Land of Israel he settled in Jerusalem where he developed a relationship with the foremost rabbis of the time, including Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky Av Beit Din of Jerusalem, Rabbi Dov Berish Weinfeld of Tschebin and Rabbi Shimshon Aharon Polonsky of Teplik. Rabbi Chanoch Dov was appointed as a dayan on the Eidah Chareidit and as rabbi of the Batei Rand, Batei Broyda and Knesset Yisrael neighborhoods.
When his rabbi Rebbe Aharon of Belz stayed in Jerusalem Rabbi Padwa was given the honor of sitting at the head of the table at the tisch, and the Rebbe referred halachic questions to him. When the Rabbi of Tschebin founded the Kochav M’Yaacov yeshiva in Jerusalem, he called upon Rabbi Chanoch Dov to head the yeshiva. In 1956 he was appointed as Av Beit Din of the Union of Ultra-Orthodox Congregations in London, a position which made him head of all the city’s ultra-orthodox congregations, and which he held until his death.
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