Document detailing the decision of the Bonyhád Kehila to appoint as Dayanim the Gaon Rabbi Pinchas Leib Freiden & the Gaon Rabbi Yakov Meir Tzvi Freidlander.
Signed by their Rabbi the famous Gaon Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Heller.
Bonyhád, 1827.
Undernerath sign 19 of the important people of the city.
Among them is the signature of the Gaon Rabbi Yisroel Lev who a year later in 1828 was appointed as Rabbi of Baranya & from 1842 in Funfkirchen.
Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Heller (Rabbi Herschel Charif) was born in 1776. He remained close to his father-in-law’s side in JarosÅ‚aw, where he studied with great perseverance until his selection as rabbi of Brzesko, and in 1819 became rosh yeshiva in Brody. Following slander instigated by maskilim, he was forced to flee to Hungary. There, he transitioned into the role of rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Ungvar, where he taught many students, including his disciple Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
Bonyhád, returned to serve as rabbi of Ungvar, and served as rabbi of Uzhhorod and Obuda until the end of his life. He authored ‘Tiv Gittin’, which the ‘Chatam Sofer’ greatly appreciated and esteemed, as is evident from his letter to him (see Sh"ut Chatam Sofer Even HaEzer, responsa 94). And upon Rabbi Heller’s arrival in Hungary, the Chatam Sofer wrote to large communities that "the great and illustrious genius of the generation came to our land, and blessed are the people who receive him." (Apiryon, 1927, 4, p. 348). He passed away in 1835.
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