Special & important letter fully in the Holy hand & signature of the noted Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yaakov HaLevi Horowitz Rabbi of Probuzna, written to the  Famous Gaon Rabbi Meir Shapira Rabbi of Piotrkov & Lublin, reverse with Rabbi Meir’s answer in his Holy hand without signature.

The letter discusses Rabbi Horwitz’s candidature for the post of Rabbi of Lemberg with which Rabbi Shapiro disagrees.

Probuzna &  Piotrkov, 1929.

Please see Hebrew description for the full texts of both letters.

The noted Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yaakov HaLevi Horowitz (1864-1942) was a prominent leader of his generation, described by the Maharsham as a " world genius, " and by the Admor of Belz as a " mezuzah guarding Eastern Galicia."

People flocked from far and near with questions, to which he would respond promptly, and with great clarity, as though the topic were fresh on his mind. His novellae were published in Responsa Tzur Yaakov – two parts.

For a short time after Rabbi meir Shapiro’s death he was Rosh Yeshiva at the famous Yeshivas Chacmei Lublin. But when he realized he cannot answer all the Shailos flooding to him from all over as well as head the Yeshiva he left that post & returned to Probuzna.

He, his five daughters with their whole families perished in the holocaust Hy”d.

The Famous Gaon Rabbi Meir Shapira, one of the greatest and most active rabbinical figures of his time, was born in Shotz (Suceava), Romania. A descendant of the famous Rebbi Pinchas Shapira of Koritz, and a follower of the Rebbe of Chortkov, he was known as an infant prodigy and referred to as ‘The Shotzer illuy’, receiving rabbinical ordination at the age of 15.

He served as Rabbi of Glina, Sanok, Piotrkov and Lublin, where after a 7-year-long international fundraising campaign (in the course of which he travelled across Western Europe and the US) he established the internationally famous Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin as a centre for advanced Talmudic studies. He served as President of Agudas Yisroel in Poland, Honorary Secretary of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, as well as Agudas Yisroel deputy in the Polish Parliament from 1923 to 1928. At the Knessia Gedola of Agudas Yisroel in Vienna 1924 he launched the innovative Daf Hayomi universal daily Talmud study program that has been widely adopted in the orthodox Jewish world.

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Special letter by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yaakov HaLevi Horowitz of Probuzna to the Gaon Rabbi Meir Shapira, & the reply of Rabbi Meir Shapira about the Rabbanut in Lvov. 1929.

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