A plea and request letter: "Because the commandment of saving lives has truly been entrusted to me here, as I stand like a ship in the heart of the sea without any advice, only relying on the help of God through His good messengers”

The letter revolves around his financial commitment to marry off his sister-in-law Bat Kadoshim, an orphan of both father and mother, in the amount of twenty-five thousand Czech crowns.

2 pages entirely in his Holy hand & signature on official stationary.

Harav Hagaon  Meir Greenwald (d. 1965) was the son of Harav Avraham Yosef Greenwald, Av Beis Din of Ungvar, and the grandson of the Arugas Habosem. He married the daughter of Harav Yehuda Yechiel of Rozlo and for 14 years, served devotedly as Rav of Tatch (Técső/Tačovo/Тячів) before being exiled to Siberia during the Holocaust years.

After the war, he taught and offered spiritual and emotional support to Holocaust survivors in the displaced persons camp in Munich before emigrating from Europe and settling in Toronto, Canada. There, he served as Av Beis Din of Kehal Machzikei Torah and endeavored to plant roots of Jewish faith and Torah . His daughter married the Pupa Rav shlit”a, He authored sefer Avanim Meirim, as well as passages in Arugas Habosem on Mishnayos.

23 Cm.

Very Good condition, filing holes.

Please see also Lots 56, 64, 206.

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Lot #226

Letter of pleas and request by the Gaon & Tzadik Rabbi Meir Greenwald of Tatch.

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