(Rabbi of Dombrava, 1875-1939). Group of three Autograph Letters Signed, in Hebrew, written to R. Baruch Zuckerman.

WEIDENFELD, NACHUM

Dombrova

1924

Concerning various Talmudic topics and novellae to Tractates Menachoth, Yoma, and Shabbath. Pertaining to Ma’aser Sheni, building in order to destroy, a Cohen who served in the Beth HaMikdash while not entirely pure and other related topics. In one letter he writes: “I believe this is a particularly important comment, I would like to hear what your father-in-law [R. Meir Arik] has to say concerning this.

Born in Harimlov, Poland, R. Nachum Weidenfeld received his early education from his father R. Yaakov (author of Kochav MiYa’akov) and grew to become one of the great Galician Torah scholars. Following the death of their father, he supervised the studies of his younger brother, R. Dov Berish who later became the Tchebiner Rav. R. Nachum is renowned for his responsa Chazon Nachum which was published in 1939 just months before he suffered a fatal heart attack soon after the German invasion of Poland. Many unpublished manuscripts of his were destroyed during the Holocaust.