Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew to R. Mordechai Tzvi HaKohen Yolles of Lemberg pertaining to a halachic matter concerning an oath and an aggadic interpretatation of the word "pegisha".

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Lot 345
RABIN, MORDECHAI.

Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew to R. Mordechai Tzvi HaKohen Yolles of Lemberg pertaining to a halachic matter concerning an oath and an aggadic interpretatation of the word "pegisha".

f.1 Lower right corner frayed with a small hole on the right (repaired) affecting a word of text

(Lemberg): (ca.1830)

Est: $4,000 - $6,000
R. Mordechai Rabin (d. 1838) served as Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Beth Din of Zamocz, and was later appointed as Dayan and Maggid of Lemberg, serving in the Beth Din of R. Yaakov Orenstein (author of Yeshuoth Yaakov) for over twenty three years. R. Mordechai Rabin was the teacher of R. Shlomo Kluger and is celebrated for his respona published at the end of the Baruch Taam by his colleague R. Baruch Frankel-Teomim. See M. Wunder, Encyclopedia LeChachmei Galicia, vol. IV, col. 713-14 (illustrated). The recipient of this letter, R. Mordechai Tzvi HaKohen Yolles of Lemberg (d. 1843) was also a well known scholar and the father of R. Zechariah Yeshiah Yolles of Minsk, author of Zecher Yeshiah