Auction 70
Lot 309:
Early letter of friendship by Rabbi Beinish Salkind Rubiner Rosh Av Beit Din of the Beit Din of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef (Rabbi Yaakov Charif) and one of the leaders of the Union of Rabbis, addressed to Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Hacohen Wolk Av Beit Din of Pinsk, author of Keter Kehuna – New York, 1898.
In his letter, Rabbi Salkind writes short lines of friendship: "אחדשה"ט הנני דו"ש ושלום תורתו ה"ק ומיחלים לה’ שיאריך ימיו בטוב ובנעימים כנפשו ונפש ידידו הבעה"ח בינש זלקינד ראבינער ראב"ד דפה הנ"ל".
On the lower part of the postcard, names of Shlichei Gett and the namesof the husband and wife… possibly, this was the purpose of the letter in the first place?
Important and early Americana item, before the large religious immigrations.
Postcard.
14X9 cm.
Good condition.
The Gaon Rabbi Beinish [Binyamin Beinish] Salkind Rubiner (1851?-1914) the son of Rabbi Dober Rubiner of Boisk, one of the founders of the Union of Rabbis of the USA and a memeber of its first committee. Served as Rosh Av Beit Din of the Beit Din of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef and as Rav of the Jewish Lithuanian community of New York. Was a student of the Volozhin Yehiva and a disicple of Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan in Kovna. His brother, Rabbi Dr. Tzemach Rubiner eulogized him in his book Divrei Hesped Vetanchumei Avelim [Sofia, 1938], noting that Rabbi Beinish was an expert on matters of Gittin and Kidushin, receiving questions from leading American and British rabbis (and apparently, also Lithuanian as indicated by this postcard) and left an unpublished manuscript on these subjects.
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