FEINSTEIN, MOSHE.
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
Lot 356
FEINSTEIN, MOSHE.
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.