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LOT 152:
LERNER, MEIR. Chayei Olam [responsa concerning ...
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LERNER, MEIR.
Chayei Olam [responsa concerning cremation].
Additional German title. pp. xxiv, 133. Slightly browned, marginal repair on final leaves, penciled marginalia. Modern boards. 8vo.
Berlin H. Itzkowski 1905.
Meir Lerner (1857-1930) Chief Rabbi of Altona was a vigorous opponent of the Reform movement, especially their practice to permit cremation in place of traditional full burial. Consequently, Lerner refused to permit the deposit of cremated ashes in Jewish cemeteries.
In order to support his position, Lerner gathered here responsa from approximately 200 Rabbis from all over the world, running the gamut from Lithuanian authorities such as R. Yechiel Michal Epstein, author of Aruch HaShulchan; to Chassidic Rebbes such as R. Chaim Elazar Shapiro of Munkatch; to German rabbinic scholars such as R. Asher Marx of Darmstadt; and from Eretz Israel, the Adereth and the author of the Sdei Chemed.
See pp. 111-30 for two vociferous responses to R. Chanoch Ehrentreu’s work Cheker Halacha (1904); one written by R. Elijah Hertzberg of Brooklyn and the other, a lengthy rebuttal by R. Meir Lerner.
* Tipped In: The original eight pages of responsa published by Lerner in Cracow at the press of Josef Fischer and sent to Rabbis across the globe and reprinted in the present volume (pp. xiii-xxiv).
