(1860-1930). Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew to <<Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik.>>

Auction 96 | Wednesday, February 09th, 2022 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinic Letters, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 71

Silberberg, Chaim Ya’akov Naftali

(1860-1930). Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew to <<Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik.>>

This letter is addressed with the greatest honorifics to Rabbi Soloveitchik as befits a Gadol HaDor. After apologizing for not being able to visit and ask the queries that he would have liked, Rabbi Silberberg describes the saintly and wise qualities of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, and how he comported himself with deep wisdom in the presence of aged Gaonim. Two pages. Tape stains.

Warsaw: 15th Tammuz 1909

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $350

Rabbi Silberberg, also known as R. Chaim Ya’akov Naftali Virshov, was the son of R. Avraham Binyamin Beinush Silberberg (1839-87), rabbi of Kotno and then Wieruszów. Rabbi Silberberg was a Dayan in Warsaw, the editor of several works by the Maharil Zunz, and the author of many original Torah works including Darkei Chaim which was published posthumously (Peitrokov, 1931) and includes his ethical will, and Da’ath HaRabanim, a work against Zionism. R. Silberberg’s personal knowledge of Rabbi Sonnenfeld stemmed from an earlier period, when he served as the rabbinic assistant to R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin in Jerusalem. See M.M. Gerlitz & Y.M. Sofer, Mara De'ara Yisrael (Jerusalem, 1969) Vol. 1, p. 35.