Kargowa (Unruhstadt-Karge), 1858.

The letter tells the tragic story of a Jewish girl who bore a child with a non Jew & now wants to marry a Jewish boy.

Rabbi Chaim Mendelssohn was born in Zlotow in 1791 to his father R. Moshe. He studies in the Poznan, Glogau & Breslau Yeshivas. On the recommendation of Rabbi Akiva Eger he received Rabbinical ordinations from the Berlin & Breslau Rabbanim in 1822.

Rabbi of Guttentag, in 1844 he was among those who protested against Abraham Geiger in Breslau. In 1846 the Guttentag synagogue & Rabbis house burned down & they could no longer sustain him. He then moved to Kargowa where he was Rabbi until 1870. He died in Berlin in 1884.

26.5 Cm. 

The Gaon & Tzadik Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher Rabbi of Greiditz (1796-1875), disciple of Rabbi Akiva Eger, served as rabbi of Pleschen (Pleszew) until ca. 1840. He later went to serve as rabbi of Greiditz. His eldest son, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh, succeeded him as rabbi of Pleschen. Famed as a holy kabbalist, in his senior years his name spread throughout the Jewish world as a wonder-worker, with amazing stories circulating of the great miracles and salvations attained through the blessings of "der Greiditzer Tzaddik" (the Tzaddik of Greiditz), "from all countries people came to seek his blessings and prayers, each one according to his needs" (Igrot Sofrim, at the foot of letter 29).

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Responsa by Rabbi Chaim Mendelssohn Ab''d Kargowa to Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher Rabbi of Greiditz. 1858.

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