(Tchebiner Rav, 1881-1966). Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew on personal letterhead to Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin

WEIDENFELD, DOV BERISH

26th Elul

Jerusalem

1951

Concerning, “the great scholar, R. Akiva Gross,” requests he be eligible to receive food-assistance

The Tchebiner Rav was one of the greatest Galician rabbinic leaders of the 20th century, particularly celebrated for his work of responsa, Dovev Meisharim. He reached the Land of Israel in 1946 having escaped the terrors of the Holocaust in Siberia and Bukharia. The recipient of this letter, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin (1881-1966), was the son-in-law of R. Eliezer Gordon, Rosh Yeshivah of Telz, Lithuania. Known as the “Lutzker Rov,” after the name of the community he served in pre-Holocaust Poland, (not Slutsk as erroneously written in the letter), he was instrumental in establishing the Va’ad HaYeshivoth in Eretz Israel and also served for a period of time as Chairman of the Mo’etzeth Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel