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Rare Mechiras Chametz Document of Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer of Kozhiglov; 1927

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Rare Mechiras Chametz Document of Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer of Kozhiglov; 1927

Document consenting to the selling of chametz belonging to the residents of Z’eveirtze, handwritten by Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer of Kozhiglov, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin.

Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi served as Rabbi of Z’eveirtze between the years 1923 – 1928.

This long detailed document is dated Z’eveirtze, 1927.

Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer (1883 – 1943) was a prominent rabbinical figure in Poland prior to World War II. Proficient in both the Revealed and Hidden Torah as well as Chassidus, he was a Halachic authority and taught many disciples. He was a disciple of the Avnei Nezer and a Chassid of Sochatchov. He served as Av Beis Din of Z’eveirtze and Kozhiglov and succeeded Rabbi Meir Shapira as Rosh Yeshiva of Chachmei Lublin following his passing. During the second Siyum Hashas he instituted the daily learning of Mishnah. With the outbreak of World War II and the closing of his yeshiva, he fled to Warsaw whereupon he continued teaching Torah and Chassidus in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was murdered in the Holocaust. His novellae are recorded in Responsa Eretz Tzvi and others ,

Double-sided | 30 x 21 cm | Small tear affecting text | Rare

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