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LOT 170:
RABBI WOLF HAMBURGER, RABBI OF FUERTH, LETTER TO RABBI ZALMAN WASSERMAN, RABBI OF MERGENTHEIM. ...
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RABBI WOLF HAMBURGER, RABBI OF FUERTH, LETTER TO RABBI ZALMAN WASSERMAN, RABBI OF MERGENTHEIM. RARE.
exceptionally rare halachic letter from one of the greatest German rabbinic authorities. Dated 14th Shevat 5607 (1847). Halachic treatise regarding laws of Mikva. Handwritten signed letter.
Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Ze’ev (Wolf) Hamburger (1770-1850), a disciple of Rabbi Meshulam Zalman HaCohen – the Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Fuerth, who appointed him his successor in 1799. Whilst other Yeshivos in Germany were closing down due to the spread of the Reform movement and the lure of secular studies, Reb Wolf Hamburger headed the last traditional Yeshiva of his era, withstanding government attempts to introduce secular studies as part of the curriculum. Author of Shaar Hazekeinim and Simlas Binyamin.
Rabbi Zalman Wasserman, Rabbi of Bad Mergentheim, referred to in Takanos Agunos (Odessa 1887) as one of the learned pious German rabbis.
1 side. 22 x 19 cm. Good condition. tape repair on underside.
