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Lot #    10802
Auction End Date    7/12/2005 10:01:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Israel Joshua Trunk of Kutno
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר ישראל יהושע טראנק
Author    [Ms.]
City    Kutno
Publication Date    1881
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 95:160 mm., light age staining, ink on paper six lines of text in Ashkenazic script, signed, sealed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Israel Joshua Trunk (1820–1893), was born in Plock, Poland, Trunk soon developed a reputation as a prodigy and great scholar. He served as the rabbi of Szrensk (from 1840), Gabin (from 1847), Warka (from 1850), Poltusk (from 1853), and from 1861 to the end of his life he was rabbi of Kutno and was known throughout the Jewish world as R. Israel Joshua Trunk of Kutno. He was close to Hasidism, especially to the rebbe of Gur, R. Isaac Meir. He joined the Hibbat Zion movement with the initial activity of R. Zevi Hirsch Kalischer, whom he encouraged in his letters. In 1886 R. Trunk visited Erez Israel and encouraged the pioneers who were then experiencing the initial difficulties of settlement. He was among the rabbis who permitted agricultural work during the sabbatical year in Erez Israel. A halakhic authority, only one of his books on halakhah, Yeshu'ot Yisrael (1870), on Shulhan Arukh Hoshen Mishpat, was published during his lifetime. The remainder were published posthumously by his grandson as Yeshu'ot Malko (1927–39), novellae, and Yavin Da'at (1932), on Shulhan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah with responsa.
          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica