Very long Responsa concerning a Ger that converts so he can marry a Jewish girl, as if we won’t accept them they will turn to the reform.

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The Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Yaakov Breish (1896-1976). Dayan in Olesko & Rabbi of Duisburg. Later Rabbi and Av Beit Din of the Hasidic community of Agudat Achim in Zurich, Switzerland for more than forty years.

The recipient, the Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirschbaum was born in Cracow in 1895 to his father Rabbi Shmuel, who was a great Torah scholar. He studied with the Gaon Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu Dembitzerr in Krakow. In 1927 he was appointed Dayan, a rabbi in Sakala, and later served as the rabbi of the city of Frankfurt Until 1939.. Six weeks before the outbreak of the war, he emigrated to Brussels, Belgium, where he served as rabbi in the Beit Midrash Ahavat Shalom. Although he had a permit to immigrate to Eretz Israel, he relinquished the right in the hope that at the end of the war he would return to his community in Frankfurt, to which he was deeply attached.

The Germans occupied Belgium in 1940. He escaped through the French border but was caught by gunfire. On Saturday, when he was on his way to synagogue, he was caught by the Gestapo. Because his papers were not in his hands, which he did not want to carry on Saturday, he was sent to Malin where the Jews were rounded up until they were sent to Auschwitz. He perished at Auschwitz at the age of 47 Hy”d. His teachings were printed in Zion for Menahem.

6 sides. 29.7 Cm.

Lot #263

Very long Responsa by the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Yaakov Breish to Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirschbaum of Frankfurt, about accepting converts.

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Very long Responsa by the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Yaakov Breish to Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kirschbaum of Frankfurt, about accepting converts.

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