Auction 66
Lot 269:
"יהי דרכך צלחה" Letter of warm blessings, for the wedding of Rabbi Zalman Shapira, gandwritten and signed by the Vizhnitze Dayan the Chassid Gaon Rabbi David Zvi Schneeblag – Manchester, 1954.
The letter was sent by Rabbeinu in 1954 and in it he sends warm blessing to Rabbi Zalman Shapira for his wedding: "מתוך לבבי אברך אותך ליום בואך בצל אפריון יהי דרכך צלחה והזיווג יעלה יפה".
Aerogram.
20X25 cm.
Good condition.
Rabbi David Zvi Schneebalg (1893-1968) the son of Rabbi Vhaim. He was a head of the Vizhnitz yeshiva and a Dayan in Vizhnitz between the two world wars. After WWII he served as Rav of the Orthodox community in Manchester. In 1923 the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Hager of Vizhnitz re-established the Damesek Eliezer yeshiva, which had closed because of the war. He appointed Rabbi Schneebalg as Rosh Yeshiva. It 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 students were moved to ghettos. When he was in the ghetto he established (with Rabbi Baruch Hager, later the Admor the Makor Baruch of Seret-Vizhnitz) a Beit Din for Agunot. Later, together with additional Jews, he was sent to Transnistria (next to Moldova). After the war, he immigrated to Britain and was appointed Rav of the Machzikei HaDat community of Manchester. In his old age, he moved to Israel and lived in Bnei Berak. After his passing, he was buried in the Zichron Meir cemetery there. His Divrei Torah were published in the book Tzemach LeDavid.
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