To the Gaon Rabbi Abraham Yechezkel Reich Rabbi of Banowicz.
Regarding a Agona question, a guest came to a guest house and gave his passport to the owner of the house and was sick in the chest and moaned a lot and his mind was also not clear and died suddenly. If his wife is allowed to remarry by the sign of his snout which was extremely long, and a sign of a chest disease and confusion of mind, and if the passport is something someone won’t just lend.
2 large sides, without a signature. 33 Cm.
Printed in his Responsa Eyin Habedolach Siman 6.
The Gaon Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Mannheimer [1814-1886] was the rabbi of Werbau and Ungvar and leader of the Orthodox Jewish community in Hungary. He was an elite disciple of the Chatam Sofer, renowned as a genius from a young age.
After he learned by great geonim Rabbi Yaakov Kopel Charif and Rabbi Binyamin Zev Lev, recognised as a child prodigy & before he was even thirteen, he was accepted to the Chatam Sofer’s yeshivah, where proficient older students studied.
At the beginning of his Rabbanut he served as Rav in Shutelsdorf and after there he was Rav in the big city of Werbau, there he served in Rabbanut and established a very large Yeshiva.
In the year 1871 he was appointed as Rav of the city of Ungvar in place of Rabbi Menachem A"sh. Although he conducted himself according to Ashkenazi Rabbanim, he was very accepted by the righteous of Chassidut who accorded him much praise. Many of Hungarien Rabbanim amongst them great sages from the following generation, learned in his Yeshivot in Wervau and Ungvar.
From the known disciples, the ‘Maasei L’Melech’ Rabbi Yeshaye Silbertein, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Zonnenfeld Chief Rabbi of Isreal, Rabbi Yosef Elimelech Kehana and many more.
The recipient Rabbi Avraham Yechezkel Reich was the son and disciple of his father, Rabbi Koppel Charif of Vrbové. At the young age of twenty he published his father’s novellae, Chidushei Yaavetz on chulin, whereupon he received the endorsement of the Chassam Sofer who referred to him as, "the diligent and witty young man; a beautiful olive tree." He served as Av Beis Din of Karlsburg and then of Banowicz, beginning in 1855, serving in this capacity for thirty-five years. He authored Toras Yechezkel on Torah and homilies – Two parts.
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