Bidspirit auction | RABBI YISSACHAR SHLOMO TEICHTAL, RABBI

RABBI YISSACHAR SHLOMO TEICHTAL, RABBI OF PIESTANY, AUTHOR OF MISHNEH SACHIR, HISTORIC LETTER TO RABBI MOSHE ELIYAHU ROGOSNITZKY, DAYAN OF LEIPZIG AND RABBI OF CARDIFF, REFERRING TO A DISPUTE WITHIN THE PIESTANY COMMUNITY AND REQUESTING INTERVENTION ON HIS BEHALF FOR THE RABBINATE IN FRANFKURT. Letter dated 1926 in which Rabbi Teichtal informs his friend Rabbi Rogosnitzky that his financial position has worsened due to ‘the dispute’ [within the local community in Piestany] and seeks his intervention with R. Yaakov Rosenheim and other Frankfurt community leaders whom he has heard are seeking a rabbi from Hungary for Frankfurt. He gives Rabbi Avraham Frankel, head of the central Orthodox Community Council in Budapest as a reference. This letter sheds light on a forgotten historic event. Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal (1885-1945), disciple of Rabbi Shalom Wieder of Nyiredhaz and of the Arugas Habosem. Son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Ginz of Besermin. Dayan in Besermin and Rosh Beis Din in Piestany (1922). In 1942 he escaped to Hungary but returned in 1944to Slovakia, from where he was deported to Auschwitz. Author of Mishneh Sachir and Eim Habanim Semeicha. Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Rogosnitzky, son of Rabbi Leib of Nalibok (Lithuania) and leading disciple of Rabbi Zalman Sender Cahana – Shapira of Krinik. Dayan and Rosh Yeshiva in Leipzig. Rabbi of Cardiff, Wales. 2 sides. 15 x 24 cm. Very good condition.