(Tchebiner Rav, 1881-1966). Group of five Letters Signed with a few lines in his hand, in Hebrew, on various letterheads, two with his stamp from Tchebin. Four written to R. Dov Berish Zuckerman and one to R. Sholom Rivkin.

WEIDENFELD, DOV BERISH.

Tchebin and Jerusalem

1936-61

Two letters of responsa, one letter of recommendation, two letters of thanks for assisting the Yeshiva (see below).

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 responsa here include a lengthy letter from (Tchebin, 1936) to Rabbi Zuckerman mostly concerning “Nisuch HaMayim” the water libation service at the Temple. * The responsa to R. Shalom Rivkin (dated 1961) contains novellae pertaining to Maimonides’s Hilchoth Mikva’oth and encourages Rabbi Rivkin’s efforts to build a new modern Mikvah in his city. * The letter of recommendation for Rabbi Zuckerman (Tchebin, 1938) is highly laudatory with extremely honorific titles. “Blessed will be the community that will benefit from such a shining diamond… whose light will shine far and wide.”