Auction 12
Rare seforim and Rabbinical Letters
By Prime Judaica
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Sep 8, 2022
30 9th Street, Lakewood NJ 08701, USA, United States
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LOT 247:
Response by Rabbi Meir Arik to Rabbi Moshe Dovid Ostreicher Ab"d Chimpa.
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Response by Rabbi Meir Arik to Rabbi Moshe Dovid Ostreicher Ab"d Chimpa.
The first side and most of the second side are written by someone else, the end of the second side and the complete third side are written and signed by Rabbi Meir Arik.
1 page, written both signed, signed at the end
Rabbi Meir Arik [1855-1925], a leading Galician Torah scholar, served as rabbi of Yazlovets, Buchach and Tarnów. He passed away in his sukkah on the 16th of Tishrei.
Rabbi Moshe Dovid Ostreicher (1883-1954), was a talmid of R. Tzvi Hirsch of Munkacs (Darkei Teshuva), R. Yehuda Greenfeld and R. Yehuda Grunewald. Known as a tremendous Talmid Chochom and great Posek, he served as Rov in Tchimpa and later Arad. Miraculously surviving the Holocaust, after the war he was greatly involved in helping Agunos after the war. He later immigrated to New York, settling in Williamsburg where he was held in great esteem.
3 sides.
Size: 22.5 x 14.5 cm
Condition: Fine condition, some teas and stains.
