Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew, to Rabbi Eliezer Fleckeles of Prague. Signed Akiva b. R. Moshe Günz.

EGER, AKIVA.

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Two pages with integral blank, folded with autograph address-panel on verso. Cursive Aschkenazi script, brown ink on paper.

Halachic notes and comments to Fleckeles’ work of responsa, Teshuvah Me’ahavah. Signed “with great respect,” and with wishes to “renew [his] youth like an eagle with added strength for Torah.” A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS BY RABBIS AKIVA EGER AND Moses Sofer (The “CHATHAM SOFER”). (Lots 299-312) Rabbi Akiva Eger (1761-1837) of Posen and his son-in-law Rabbi Moses Sofer (1762-1839) of Pressburg were two of the most outstanding, Rabbinic leaders of the Late 18th-Early 19th centuries. Their responsa, novellae and sermons enjoyed unprecedented praise and respect, and are to this day assiduously consulted, by all Jews, universally. Akiva Eger and Moses Sofer’s qualities of moral character, humanity, humility and justice, alongside their profound scholarship and leadership has created, some two centuries later, a deeply venerated aura surrounding their personalities. Due to their considerable reputation, their legion of descendents (who proliferated into Europe’s most prominent Rabbinic Families), deem original handwritten material by the two Greats, to be imbued with an ineluctable level of holiness that serves as both a source of metaphysical protection and blessing.