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Lot #    21467
Auction End Date    8/12/2008 1:02:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Meshullam Rath
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר משולם ראטה
Author    [Ms.]
City    Bene Brak
Publication Date    1955
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 328:210 mm., ink on paper, light age staining, neat Ashkenazic script, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter by R. Meshullam Rath (1875–1963), talmudist and rabbinic authority. R. Rath's father and earlier forebears had occupied the rabbinate of Kolomyya for 150 years consecutively. R. Rath, who had a remarkable memory and a rapid grasp of essentials, was ordained at the age of 12 by R. Isaac Schmelkes and R. Jacob Teomim. In 1895 he was appointed rabbi of Molniza and in 1899 rabbi to his native town Horoskov and then to Ushbuza. R. Rath was an active community leader. He founded a yeshivah for outstanding students, was elected to the Rumanian senate, and was one of the first rabbis to join the Mizrachi movement openly. He spent part of World War I in Vienna, where his renown spread. On returning to Galicia after the war, he was considered for the Lvov rabbinate but withdrew his candidacy when asked to give up his Zionist work. He was then appointed rabbi of Chernovtsy. In 1944 he settled in Erez Israel and became a member of the chief rabbinate. There he was consulted by the Supreme Rabbinic Court, and examined candidates for the post of dayyan.

Some of his responsa were published under the title Kol Mevasser (2 vols., 1955–62). These deal with such topical matters as the permissibility of a bat mitzvah ceremony for girls and of the wording of the ketubbah in Hebrew instead of Aramaic, recitation of Hallel with blessings and the She-Heheyanu on Israel's Independence Day.

          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Israel:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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Kind of Judaica