(The "Arugas HaBosem,” 1853–1910). Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew to his student, Yechezkel Yoel.

GRUNWALD, MOSHE

Chust

n.d

Writes with sensitivity concerning the young man’s health and emphasizes that it is a Mitzvah to be protective of bodily needs; in relation to which he Paskens that in this case, milk products may be eaten following meat without waiting the normally prescribed six hours.

Famed for his halachic work, Arugas HaBosem, R. Moshe Greenwald was one of the greatest rabbis of Hungary at the end of the 19th century. He was the Rabbi of Khust (now, western Ukraine) and progenitor of the Pupa Chasidic dynasty through his son Rabbi Ya’akov Yechezkiah (Vayaged Ya’akov, 1882–1941).