Auction 70
Lot 325:
Touching letter handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Ze’ev Wolf Leiter Av Beit Din of Pressburg and author of Shut Beir David, addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna, the Rosh Yeshiva of Hebron, with overtones of the Arab riots in Eretz Yisrael – Pittsburgh, 1939.
The beginning of the letter discusses donations that were sent from Pittsburgh to the Hebron Yeshiva. Then, Rabbeinu inquires as to the health of the Rosh Yeshiva out of a genuine concern of a Jew in the USA whose heart lies with Zion: "יודיעני נא שלומו וטובותו ויכול אני לשער היסורים והפחד שעברו עליו בזמן האחרון השם ירחם… שארית הפליטה" (Please inform me how he is doing I can only imagine the agony and fear he has experienced recenetly… She’erit Hapletah).
Those days were the height of the Arab Revolt in Plaestine during which approx. 400 Jews were killed.
Official stationery.
21.5X28 cm.
Filing perforations. Fold lines. Good condition.
The Gaon Rabbi Ze’ev Wolf Leiter (1892-1974) a famed Rav and Posek Halacha. The son of the Gaon Rabbi Nosson Note Leiter, Av Beit Din of Lviv and author of Shut Me’orot Natan. Already at a young age was recognized as an Iluy and was praised by the Maharam of Brezan author of Da’at Torah. Received his Hora’ah Semich from the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Binyomin Kluger and the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Menachem Halevi Steinberg. In 1920, he immigrated to the USA where he served as Av Beit Din of Pittsburgh. Was close to the Admorim of Ruzhin, the Admor Rabbi Yisrael of Chortekov and the Admor Rabbi Yitzchak of Boyan.
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