Auction 76
Lot 58:
Typewritten letter on the official stationery of the Badatz HaEidah HaChareidit of Jerusalem, when Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky was the Gaon Av Beit Din. Among others, the name of Rabbi Yochanan Twersky is mentioned (apparently, referring to the Admor of Rachmastrivka, Rabbi Yochanan Twersky). Signed by the secretary, the famed Chabadic Gaon Rabbi Avraham Chaim Na’eh, Baal Hashi’urim.
Rabbi [Avraham] Chaim Na’eh (1890-1954), known as Baal HaShiurim, was born in Hebron to Rabbi Menachem Mendel, an important Chabad Chassid. At the age of 20, he left Eretz Israel for the yeshiva of the Rashab in Lubavitch, from which he continued to Shelichut in Samarkand, where he became known to the Jews of Bukhara as well. For them he became a sacred man, many enjoying his advice and blessings. Afterward, he returned to Jerusalem, where he became well-known for his book Shiurei Torah on measurements and weights of Chazal, which he converted to the units we use today. During World War I he went to Egypt. When he returned to Israel he served as Rav of the Bukharim neighborhood of Jerusalem. He was a great Posek of Jerusalem and an important Chabad Chassid.
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