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Lot #    23798
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 12:48:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by the Admor of Radzyn
Title (Hebrew)    ëúá àãîå'ø îøàãæéï
Author    [Ms. - Hasidic]
City    Brooklyn
Publication Date    1962
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 280:218 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on stationary, Ashkenazic script, signed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Letter by R. Yeruham Leiner (1888-1964), Admor of Radzyn. In 1924 he was ordained by R. Moses HaKohen Adamashik of Chelm and married Rebecca, daughter of R. Tzvi Hirsch Hal­berstadt, a descendant of R. Abraham Abish of Frankfurt. Settling in North London in 1934, he established the shtiebl Bet HaMi­drash Kehal Yisrael in Willesden, northwest London, in 1935. He strongly criticized Chief Rabbi J. H. Hertz for his controversial com­ments - on sacrifices in his commentary in the Authorised Daily Prayer Book. A Torah scholar of great erudition, he corresponded with many leading contemporary rabbis. He wrote notes on the Palestinian Talmud, which were included in Grossman's edition of the Ye­rushalmi (New York, 1959), on the Mishneh Torah in the Pardes edition of Maimonides Code (Jerusalem, 1963), and cooperated with R. David Luria in Kadmut HaZohar (Tel Aviv, 1951), which tried to prove the antiquity of the Zohar. He was also the author of Tiferet Yeruham on the Pentateuch, which was published by his son (Brooklyn, 1967).

He was a profound writer on Halakhah, Aggadah and Kabbalah, and eighty-one of his articles appeared in rabbinic periodicals: Sinai, Hapardes, Hadarom, Kerem, Talpiyot, and Kol Torah. He published a com­mentary on the Passover Haggadah (New York, 1956) and reprinted the works of his grandfather and uncle, to which he added long introductions. In 1947 he settled in Borough Park, New York, where he passed on.

          
Reference
Description		    T. Preschel, Jewish Press, February 15, 1991, p. 66a; Enc. Has. pp.283-4
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica