Auction 102
Oct 24, 2017
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel

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Collection of Letters and 'Court Documents' from the Beit Din in Warsaw, End of 1939, Only a Few Weeks Before the ...

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Collection of Letters and 'Court Documents' from the Beit Din in Warsaw, End of 1939, Only a Few Weeks Before the Outbreak of the Second World War

Collection of letters and 'court documents' from the Beit Din in Warsaw, the latter part of 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War.

Specifications: [4] paper leaves. 22x35 cm. Handwritten and printed. Signed with the signatures of the dayanim of the Warsaw Beit Din.

Content: Three of the documents are regarding a husband in Poland who sent a get to his wife in Australia, with an emissary, who then appointed a resident of Australia as another emissary, and then appointed another emissary in his stead. In addition to their historical value, these 'court documents', also have halachic value and can help determine the law and custom in rare cases such as these.

Additional letter in Yiddish, in which a women begs the Beit Din in Warsaw to contact the Beit Din in America and to ask them to obligate her family to support her and her four "pitzkalach [tiny children]" who are suffering from starvation.

Unique Features: One of the dayanim who signed is Rabbi Yaakov Zuckart, dayan in Warsaw, who also gave an approbation to the Admor of Lublin's book Hatzaot Takana Nechutza. We do not know what befell the other dayanim, the witnesses, emissaries, the husband and the woman with the four "pitzkalach, " as only a few short weeks later the Nazis invaded Poland, brutally destroying the magnificent world of Polish Jewry.

Condition: Fine-very fine overall condition.