Personal Silver Waterman pen with inscription

(AUERBACH, RABBI SHLOMO ZALMAN, 1910-1995).

Israel

c. 1930's

Sterling silver latice worked Waterman fountain-pen, engraved with beaded edging. Central cartouche with Hebrew inscription bearing the name in Hebrew “Shlomo Zalman Auerbach”

Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rosh Yeshivat Kol Torah, was broadly acclaimed as one of Orthodoxy’s greatest halachic authorities and the saintly personality of a generation. He exemplified the purity and piety of the greatest scholars of yesteryear. He was world renowned as a prolific author of responsa and halachic works on medical and technological matters (his earliest published work was on electricity). Other works included Me’orei Esh, Ma’adanei Eretz and Minchath Shlomo. R. Shlomo Zalman was a Rabbi and dispensed blessings, consultations and counsel and was accessible to all His funeral procession was ranked one of the largest in Israeli history. An estimated 300,000 mourners covering the entire spectrum of the Jewish nation attended. This silver pen with the rabbi’s name inscribed, which he used in his earlier years of marriage, was apparently given as a gift - a mark of distinction. Provenance: The pen was recently acquired from the Auerbach Family prior to the recent sale of the Family home