Autograph Hebrew Manuscript. Text of the Beth Din ruling written by R. Moshe Feinstein, with his signature as lead followed by 99 others (see below)

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 280
HETER MEAH RABBANIM:

Autograph Hebrew Manuscript. Text of the Beth Din ruling written by R. Moshe Feinstein, with his signature as lead followed by 99 others (see below)

Two pages on the letterhead of Mesiftha Tifereth Jerusalem of New York.

New York: 27th Adar 1961

Est: $2,500 - $3,000
PRICE REALIZED $2,400
The Beth Din consisted of R. Moshe Feinstein, R. Joseph Feldman and R. Michel Berenbaum. The other signatories contain many prominent Roshei Yeshiva and Rabbis including: Rabbis Nissan Alpert, Chaim Ephraim Zaitchik, Raphael Zilber of Freiman, Abraham Serebrowsky, Gedalia Schorr, Nathan Elya Gertzulin, Elya Moshe Shisgal, Elya Chazan,Yitzchak Karpf, Abraham Broida, Abraham Yaakov Pam, Moshe David Steinwurzel, Moshe Linchner, Israel Belsky and others from the younge r generation of Torah Vadaath yeshiva. The Heter Me’ah Rabanim is a Halachic ruling that permits a man to remarry should his wife refuse a religious divorce (Get). In the present case, the woman concerned felt that a civil divorce was suffient for her needs and as a member of the Reform Movement anything beyond that was quite unnecessary. The ruling states that the man committed to keep the laws of Nidah should he remarry.