Interesting letter about his Sefer, addressed to Rabbi Shmuel Hakohen Greenberg the leader of the Beit Midrash L’Rabbanim in Berlin.
Leningrad- Petersburg, 1925.
Letters from him are Rare.
The Gaon Rabbi David Tevli Katzenelbogen (1850-1930), was a noble figure amongst Lithuanian rabbis and the eldest of Russian rabbis. From his youth he was known as an amazing prodigy and at the age of sixteen already edited a short commentary on the Talmud Yerushalmi. Served in the rabbinate in Lithuania villages, in 1894, was appointed as Rabbi of Suwalki, a district city. In 1907, he was called to the capital city of Petersburg to serve as rabbi, where he was honored greatly by Jews and non-Jews. Even after the Bolshevik revolution, he remained in the rabbinate of the city re-named Leningrad. These were days of distress and hardship for rabbis and for Jewry. It is a wonder that his Sefer “Mei Naftoach” on Tractate Yevamot was printed in Leningrad in 1924 by the printing press "The Red Propagandist" where the official newspaper “Izvestia” was printed. In 1928, he printed the Sefer of his homiletics “Gam Ele Divrei David” in Leningrad.
Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Greenberg (1880-1959), born in Moineşti (Romania), studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva and the Beit Midrash L’Rabbanim in Berlin where he later lectured. Chairman of the Mizrachi Union in Germany. In 1936, ascended to Eretz Israel, was chosen as Chairman of the Council of Religion (Hamoatza Hadatit) in Tel Aviv, member of the national Mizrachi board of directors, member of the Organization for refugee rabbis and founder of Torah and education institutes in Eretz Israel.
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