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Lot #    22974
Auction End Date    3/3/2009 11:31:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Yehezkel Abramsky
Title (Hebrew)    ëúá îä'ø éçæ÷àì àáøîñ÷é
Author    [Ms.]
City    London
Publication Date    1946
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 208:134 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on stationary, neat Ashkenazic script, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter confirming a divorce by R. Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976), talmudic scholar, was born in Lithuania. He studied at the yeshivot of Telz, Mir, and Slobodka as well as under R. Hayyim Soloveichik of Brisk. He achieved a reputation as a profound talmudic scholar and active communal worker. During World War I and the Russian Revolution he wandered in Russia and applied himself to learning, lecturing, and strengthening religious life. He was appointed rabbi of Slutsk and Smolensk. In 1928 R. Abramsky and R. S. J. Zevin published Yagdil Torah, a periodical dedicated to strengthening Torah study in the unfavorable conditions of the Soviet Union. In 1930 he was arrested as a “counter-revolutionary.” R. Abramsky was sentenced to hard labor in Siberia, but, after two years, his wife and friends succeeded in obtaining his release. He went to London, where he was appointed rabbi of the Machzike Hadath congregation, and subsequently became dayyan of the London bet din. In London, his strong personality was largely responsible for the influence of traditional Orthodoxy in the official community. He was appointed a member of the Moezet Gedolei ha-Torah of Agudat Israel. In 1951 he retired and took up residence in Jerusalem, where he became a significant figure in the yeshivah world. R. Abramsky wrote Divrei Mamonot (1939) and Erez Yisrael (1945), but his scholarly fame rests on his Hazon Yehezkel, a commentary on the Tosefta, with his novellae (first volume 1925). Several of his responsa were published in London (1937).
          
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
Other:    Women
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica