(Av Beth Din and Rosh Yeshiva of Madd, Hungary, author of Responsa Levushei Mordechai, 1845-1932). Autograph Letter Signed written in Hebrew to Rabbi Asher Anshel Yuda Miller.

WINKLER, MORDECHAI LEIB

13th Nissan

Mád, Hungary

1929

Rav Winkler apologizes that he has not gotten a chance to review and write an approbation for the book Shemen Asher that his correspondent had sent to him – concluding that such an illustrious author needs no approbation.

A disciple of the Ksav Sofer and R. Yitzchok Aaron Landsberg, R. Winkler was the leading Hungarian Posek during the first decades of the 20th century, penning over 1500 responsa (including six to the recipient of this letter, Rav Asher Anshel Yuda Miller), collected in Levushei Mordechai. As this letter attests