A Letter from Rabbi Zev Wolf Nussbaum - 'The Iluy of Stryj' - Drohobych [Galicia], 1937

A Letter from Rabbi Zev Wolf Nussbaum - 'The Iluy of Stryj' - Drohobych [Galicia], 1937

A letter in the handwriting and with the signature and stamp of the Av Beit Din of Drohobych, Rabbi Zev Wolf Nussbaum. Dated: Va'etchanan 1937.

A halachic responsum on the question of whether it is permitted to give pain relief to an adult undergoing circumcision. He reaches the conclusion that even though the Poskim did not expressly forbid doing so, as holiness rests on one who is circumcised as an adult because he was not circumcised as a child, and his heart is also circumcised, the adult being circumcised must be completely aware that it is a gift, in accordance with the ruling that one must be informed when they receive a gift, and there is no greater gift than "I am God who sanctifies you", and it must be done without the influence of anesthetic and one who fulfills the commandments will encounter no evil even if he suffers pain. In the rest of the letter he responds to various questions he was asked.

In the letter's margin are his handwritten signature and stamp.

Rabbi Zev Wolf Nussbaum [1877-1943]: "The Iluy of Stryj'". In 1907, he was appointed as Dayan in Drohobych in Eastern Galicia, where he established his yeshiva. In 1919 he was appointed as the Av Beit Din. He led the Chortkov chassidim of his city, and was one of the heads of Agudas Yisrael in Eastern Galicia. He served as member of the Spiritual Committee of Yeshivat Chochmei Lublin. Author of the book "Shu"t Ziv HaLevanon" and other works in all of the disciplines of the Torah. Murdered in the Holocaust in 1943.

[1] paper leaf written on both sides, 30x22 cm.

Folding marks. Fine condition.