FEINSTEIN, MOSHE.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 356

FEINSTEIN, MOSHE.

(Preeminent American Halachist, 1895-1985). Two Autograph Letters Signed, in Hebrew, on letterhead, written to Rabbi Dov Berish Zuckerman of Buffalo. (p. 1 and pp. 4.) <<* With:>> Follow-up Typed Letter from the Beth Din of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (the Agudas HaRabanim) signed by R. Moshe Feinstein, R. Elkanah Zoberman and R. Chaim Tzvi Krieger (in the name of Rabbi Pollak).

New York: 1949

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,200

R. Moshe Feinstein writes in the first letter that he has begun to examine this complicated case but time pressures have prevented him from presenting it before the Beth Din. Nonetheless, in order not to keep the lady in question in suspense, he hereby agrees with Rabbi Zuckerman’s belief that she can remarry. Two weeks later a second, four-page letter to Rabbi Zuckerman discusses the issue in detail. Displays the efforts of the American Agudath HaRabanim to resolve complicated Halachic problems involving women who were left Agunos due to the disappearance of their husbands in the Holocaust.