Letter by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Greenfeld, Rabbi of Sajószentpéter To Rabbi Moshe Natan Lemberger, Abd of Akava

Letter by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Greenfeld, Rabbi of Sajószentpéter To Rabbi Moshe Natan Lemberger, Abd of Akava

Letter by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Greenfeld, Rabbi of Sajószentpéter To Rabbi Moshe Natan Lemberger, Abd of Akava

R. Moshe Chaim Greenfeld (1888-1944), author of Chaim Birtzono, an outstanding Torah scholar, disciple of the Levushei Mordechai and the Da'at Sofer. Son-in-law and successor of R. Chaim Fried Rabbi of Sajószentpéter. He was considered a leading rabbi in his region, an expert posek and eminent head of yeshiva in his city (R. Yochanan Sofer of Erlau attested that his father the Yad Sofer said to him that he can clarify all abstruse halachic matters and Talmudic treatises by asking the Sajószentpéter Rabbi. During the Holocaust, he continued studying Torah and serving G-d even in the Ghetto (after he understood that he was on his way to Olam Haba) and he serenely carried on writing Torah novellae on Tractate Zevachim until he was deported together with his family and community in the month of Sivan 1944. His novellae and writings were printed by his disciples and members of his family that survived, in the book Chaim Birtzono (Jerusalem, 1982).

Rabbi of Makova (Makó, Hungary) from 1936, he rebuilt the community there after the Holocaust, eventually immigrating to Eretz Israel where he settled in Kiryat Ata and established a yeshiva there.

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