Bidspirit auction | ZOLTY, YA'AKOV BEZALEL. Mishnath Ya'avetz

ZOLTY, YA'AKOV BEZALEL. Mishnath Ya'avetz [on Yoreh De'ah]. FIRST EDITION. Opening blank with WITH AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. ff. (1), 117. Original boards. Folio. Jerusalem: 1954 R. Ya’akov Bezalel Zolti (1920-82) served as the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. A student of Jerusalem’s Etz Chaim and Chevron Yeshivahs, he was appointed to Jerusalem’s Supreme Beth Din at aged only 35 years, just after the present work was published. Zolty’s subsequent election as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem was seen as a referendum of sorts on Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren’s controversial ruling in the Langer case, which Zolty had vehemently protested against.