Long Handwritten & Autographed Halachic Responsum by Rabbi Yosef Zecharya Stern, Av Beis Din of Shavel, 1898.
Handwritten and autographed responsum by Harav Yosef Zecharya Stern, Av Beis Din of Shavel and author of Zecher Yehosef.
This responsum, dispatched to his brother-in-law Harav Tzvi Hirsh Wolk – Av Beis Din of Pinsk and author of Kesser Kehunah, deals with the Halachos of writing names in divorce documents.
Harav Yosef Zecharya Stern (1831-1904), Av Beis Din of Shavel, was one of the premier Torah geniuses of the previous generation. His proficiency in all realms of Torah was astounding, and he was described as possessing an unparalleled genius mind. In 1860, he published his famous sefer Zecher Yehosef which received the approbation of Harav Yaakov Gezundheit, author of Tiferes Yaakov, who inscribed: “I stood trembling and astounded by his sharpness and fluency in Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi with all the early and latter Poskim, responsa, and commentaries…”
In 1861, he assumed the position of Rav in Shavel where he served his congregation faithfully for 43 years until his passing.
Shavel, 1898. 6 leaves (12 sides). Page size: 21x13cm. The final leaf features a handwritten letter by his wife Rebbetzin Rivka Stern — daughter of Harav Mordechai Gimpel Yaffe of Roznai, to her sister, the wife of the above-mentioned Harav Tzvi Hirsh Wolk.
In addition, there is an attached handwritten page by Harav Tzvi Hirsh Wolk in which he copies his brother-in-law’s response to him regarding the prohibition of meilah on an amount less than a perutah.
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