Long 3 sides letter fully in his hand & signature.
Mir, 1886. 21.6 Cm.
The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Tiktinsky (1855-1931, Otzar Ha-Rabanim 450) succeeded his father Rabbi Chaim Leib Tiktinsky. Taught in Mir Yeshivah since 1884. Known for both his Talmudic dialectics and his straight logic. When Rabbi Avraham became blind due to illness, he gave over the leadership of the yeshivah to Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamai (father-in-law of Rabbi Lazar Yehudah Finkel), and in 1906 he stopped giving classes in the yeshivah.
The Gaon Rabbi Jonathan Abelman (1854–1903), rabbi and talmudist. Born in the Kovno province. He went at the age of 15 to study under Rabbi Israel Lipkin in Vilna, where he later married the daughter of Abba Levinsohn, his teacher’s brother-in-law. In 1877 he accepted the position of rabbi in the small town of Choroszcz, where he stayed until 1883. That year he was appointed a member of the bet din in Bialystok and became its av bet din when Samuel Mohilever was chief rabbi of the community. Rabbi Jonathan held the position until his death. His works include Torat Yehonatan (1889), dealing with the question of shemittah, which became particularly relevant as a result of the newly established agricultural settlements in Ereẓ Israel. He also wrote Zikhron Yehonatan, published after his death by his son (1905), consisting of novellae on parts of the Shulḥan Arukh. Some of his responsa are included in David Kempner’s Le-Matteh Yehudah (1892).
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