Auction 75
Lot 29:
Valuable treasure! A collection of writings and printed items by and handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Zeev Mintzberg. An impressive collection holding 90 years of Torah.
Following is a partial description of what the collection contains:
Sex notebooks with his handwritten copying of Halachic responses which he had sent to Gedolei Yisrael including Rabbi Moshe Kliers Av Beit Din of Tiberius, Rabbi Shlomo Leib Eliezrov (about an Agunah), Tabbi Yechiel Michl Tukchnisky, Rabbi Mordechai Aryeh Rabinovich, Rabbi Asher Zeev Warner, the Admor Rabbi Menashe Hakatan of Ungvar, Rabbi Chanaya Yom Tov Lipa Deutsch and Rabbi Shaul Moshe Zilberman. One notebook: "Response to Rabbi Yeshayahu Winograd Shlita about his comments on Kuntres Shelichut Bitrumah which I published". Usually, he signed his name at the end of each response.
Growing a forelock?! Women’s right to vote?!
2 large notebooks and several additonal notebooks and a collection of handwritten leaves with Chidushei Torah on complex halachic issues. Likutim and Milu’im. Some of the content deals with current affairs such as boys that grow their forelocks, women’s right to vote and more.
Correspondence with Gedolei Yisrael!
Collection of typewritten leaves with Chidushei Torah and Marachot he sent to leading contemporary rabbis. On one of them, the addressee’s name: "חיים יעקב קלפהולץ" was added by hand. An especially large collection of Chidushei Torah on Even HaEzer. At thei rbeginning, the addressee handwrote: "לכבוד ידי"נ הרב הגאון וכו’ ר’ צבי פסח פראנק שליט"א". Typewritten at their end: "ועוד יש לי להאריך בכ"ז ומתירא אני שלא יאמר עלי כמה ארכן הוא זה ואת והב בסופה…. ישראל זאב מינצברג". He also sent to the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Weltz, Rabbi A. Kletzkin, Rabbi Nachum Etrog, Rabbi Mordechai Rabinovich, Rabbi Zeida Heller. There are also some leaves with typewritten Chidushei Torah that were sent to him by the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Meir Deutsch.
A small portion is in similar script. Possibly, one of his family members assisted Rabbeinu in his copying. Hundreds of leaves with important content; a collection demonstrating genius and vast knowledge of the Torah and enabling a peek into the pure world of a Talmid Chacham of stature of the previous generation.
The Gaon Chassid Rabbi Yisrael Zeev Mintzberg (1872-1962) was a famed Gaon of Jerusalem. He served as Ashkenazic Rav of the Old City, as Rosh Av Beit Din of the Beit Din Kolelot HaChassidim, the Rabbinate Beit Din, and the Eida Charedit Beit Din. He was renowned for his vast knowledge – even in old age he could recite entire books from memory. A famous picture of his depicts him meeting the Jordanian Legionnaires at the fall of the Jewish Quarter, together with Rabbi Ben Zion Chazan. He later recalled that when he went out to meet the Legionnaires, the bullets did not stop raining yet he risked his life in spite of the danger—he told them that “I am an old man but inside the city, hundreds of men, women, and children are trapped; it is better that I take the risk and not lose such a large number of Jews, G-d forbid…”
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