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FRENKEL - ASHKENAZI, LEVI YITZCHAK (Av Beth Din of Bucharest). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to “The Administrators.” Halachic response to a domestic dispute wherein a husband was assaulting his wife, insisting she accept a divorce as they are childless. The rabbi rules here that the wife must be given financial compensation. One page (with integral blank), couple of minute punctures. Folio. Bucharest: Iyar 1848 Son of R. Meshulam Zalman Frankel-Ashkenazi and a descendant of the Ba'al Shem Tov and R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. From 1848 he served in the Bucharest rabbinate and migrated to Safed in 1873. See Otzar HaRabanim 12491.