Responsum Letter from the Gaon of Tchebin - Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld - Jerusalem, 1948

Responsum Letter from the Gaon of Tchebin - Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld - Jerusalem, 1948
Lengthy responsum letter (4 pages) from R. Dov Berish Weidenfeld Rabbi of Tchebin (Trzebinia), with his signature. Jerusalem, Kislev 1948. Addressed to the great Torah scholar R. Yissachar Dov Goldstein, one of the deans of the Kollel Shomrei HaChomot yeshiva. The letter is written by a scribe, apart from the last five lines which the Gaon of Tchebin wrote himself. Halachic responsum regarding the prohibition of trapping and slaughtering on Shabbat. The responsum was published in his book Dovev Meisharim, part II section 25, apart from the handwritten lines which were not printed there. The Gaon of Tchebin, R. Dov Berish Weidenfeld (1881-1965), was the son of R. Yaakov Rabbi of Rimalov (Hrymailiv), author of Kochav MiYaakov, foremost Galician Torah scholar. From 1923, he served as rabbi of Tchebin, Galicia, and already in his youth was renowned as a foremost Torah scholar and halachic authority in his generation, with exceptional proficiency in the entire Talmud and halachic literature. During his tenure in Tchebin, he established a prominent yeshiva, which attracted the finest, most astute students in Galicia. After the passing of R. Meir Shapiro, he joined the spiritual administration of the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva, together with the Gaon of Koziegłowy R. Aryeh Tzvi Frumer and Rebbe Moshenyu of Krakow. A chassid, he was attached to the Rebbes of the Belz and Ruzhin dynasties. During the Holocaust, he was exiled to Siberia then Bukhara, reaching Jerusalem in 1946, where he founded the Kochav MiYaakov - Tchebin yeshiva. The Tchebiner Rav was revered by all the leading rabbis of his times, Rebbes and yeshiva deans, including R. Isser Zalman Meltzer, the Chazon Ish and R. Yitzchak Zev of Brisk. His teacher Rebbe Aharon of Belz would refer to him the gravest halachic questions. On his first Shavuot in Jerusalem, he went to pray in the Beit Midrash of the Imrei Emet, Rebbe of Ger, who declared upon seeing him: "Today we shall honor the Torah itself with the reading of the Ten Commandments". [2] leaves (4 written pages), official stationery. 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Minor stains. Tears to folding marks (repaired with non-acidic tape on text). Filing holes.