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Lot #    11332
Auction End Date    8/16/2005 12:35:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Ben Zion Blum; R. Samuel Blum
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר בן ציון בלוהם הי'ד, אב'ד סארוואש
Author    [Ms.]
City    Szarvas
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Postcard, 148:106 mm., light age staining, beautiful Ashkenazic script, signed and dated. R. Samuel Blum adds several lines and likewise signs.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Ben Zion Blum (1885–1945), rabbi of Szarvas, an erudite scholar and prominent rabbi who published his father's book on the Passover Haggadah - Arvei Pesahim (1927). R. Ben Zion was raised by his father, R. Amram b. Isaac Jacob Blum (1834–1907), who served as rabbi of the important communities of Samson, Almas, Mad, Huszt, and Berettyoujfalu, where he died. R. Amram studied under his father, who was head of the bet din in Nagykaroly, and later in the seminaries of Nagykaroly, and of R. Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer, rabbi of Pressburg. His sons relate that throughout his life he longed to stand at the threshold of the gates of Zion and Jerusalem. He decided to do so once he had married off his sons and daughters. However, he was never able to fulfill this desire. His work Beit She'arim (Orah Hayyim, 1909; Yoreh De'ah, 1941) is well-known in rabbinic circles and still of importance as a basic work of halakhah. The author formulated his own particular method of research, a method which went to the heart of each problem and explained it with clear reasoning. R. Blum founded a yeshivah which attracted many students. R. Ben Zion prished in the Holocaust.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; Oheli Shem p. 425
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
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Kind of Judaica