Auction 62
Lot 255:
Postcard handwritten and signed by the the Chassid Gaon Rabbi David Zvi Scheenbalg Moreh Tzeddek in Grosswardein and Vizhnitz and Rosh Yeshiva of the famed yeshiva of Maran the Damesek Eliezer. The postcard was sent to his son (apparently, Rabbi Yeshaya Schneebalg Av Beit Din of Bnei Re’em) and his son Rabbi Chaim Schneebalg also wrote on it – Grosswardein, 1947.
10X15 cm.
Stains. fold lines. Good condition.
Rabbi David Zvi Schneebalg (1893-1968) was the son of Rabbi Haim. He was a head of the Vizhnitz yeshiva and a daDayann Vizhnitz between the two world wars. After WWII he served as rabbi of the orthodox community in Manchester. In 1923 the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Hager of Vizhnitz established the Damesek Eliezer yeshiva, which replaced the yeshiva closed because of the war. He appointed Rabbi Schneebalg to lead it. The original was the largest yeshiva in Bukovina, and at its peak around 150 students studied there from various places in Romania. With the outbreak of WWII, it was closed and the residents were moved to ghettos. When he was in the ghetto he established (with Rabbi Baruch Hager, later the Admor Mekor Baruch of Seret-Vizhnitz) a beit din for agunot. Later, together with additional Jews, he was sent to Trans-nistria (next to Moldova). After the war he immigrated to Britain and was appointed rabbi of the “Mehzikei HaDat” community in Manchester. At the end of his life he moved to Israel and lived in Bnei Brak. After his death he was buried in the Zichron Meir cemetery there. His Divrei toTorahere published in the book “Tzemach LeDavid”.
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