Auction 49 Part II - Books, Chassidism, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
By Kedem
Jan 19, 2016
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LOT 319:

Collection of Bank-checks – Rabbis' Signatures

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Auction took place on Jan 19, 2016 at Kedem
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Collection of Bank-checks – Rabbis' Signatures
Collection of bank-checks sent from the Ezrat Torah Organization in the US to Torah institutes and rabbis in Eretz Israel and abroad, from 1946-1968. The checks are signed by the Ezrat Torah rabbis, Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henken, Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Bloch and Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Rif. Some checks are endorsed by rabbis on the back (some in English): Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik (of Jerusalem), Rabbi David Soloveitchik, Rabbi David Jungreiss, Rabbi Avraham Dov Auerbach, Rabbi Avraham Yaffen (the check was sent "for expenses incurred by printing the book Madregat HaAdam), Rabbi Dov Sokolevsky, etc. The checks were sent to Rebbe Mordechai Shalom Yosef Freidman of Sadigura, to Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Twersky, apparently the Rebbe of Makhnovka, a check to "Rebbetzin Twersky", to "Rebbe S. L. Halberstam", to "Rebbe B. Rokeach, etc. One check was sent to Kollel Chazon Ish in Bnei Brak, with the inscription: "For R' Y. Kanievsky…". 25 checks. 22X8 cm. Overall good condition. · Enclosed: a letter from the Metivta Raba Chafetz Chaim, to "the honored woman…Ms. Pesya Miller Feigen in the city of Philadelphia". Radin, 1937. Yiddish. Signed by the yeshiva deans: Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Levinson (grandson of the Chafetz Chaim) and Rabbi Eliezer Ze'ev Kaplan.