Responsum Letter from Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv - Regarding Marriage Proscription due to Weddings by Reform Rabbis

Responsum Letter from Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv - Regarding Marriage Proscription due to Weddings by Reform Rabbis
Lengthy letter handwritten and signed by R. Yosef Shalom Elyashiv. Jerusalem, Yom Kippur eve 1989. Addressed to the London Beit Din, regarding the mamzer status (product of forbidden union) of members of a family whose mother or grandmother remarried through Reform rabbis, without first receiving a get from the first husband. R. Elyashiv opines that they should not be permitted to marry into the "congregation of the Lord". R. Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (1910-2012) was a foremost Halachic authority for over seventy years. He was reputed for his outstanding diligence and profound and wide-ranging knowledge of all realms of the Torah, enabling him to issue a clear ruling on any matter. In the last twenty years of his life, he led the Torah world in Eretz Israel and throughout the world. His Torah novellae were published by his disciples in the series of books named Hearot on Talmudic tractates, based on his lectures, and hundreds of his thousands of responsa were compiled in the five parts of Kovetz Teshuvot. This responsum was published in Kovetz Teshuvot, III, Even HaEzer, section 178. [1] leaf, official stationery. 25 cm. 28 autograph lines. Good condition.