Document attesting the sale of a house in the Beit Yisroel neighborhood in Jerusalem, 1920.
Front with signatures of Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi Jona Romm, Rabbi Yosef Gershon Horowitz, Rabbi Eliyahu Michoel Halperin.
Back with signatures of the Vaad of Beit Yisroel. Lastly 2 lines in the Holy hand & signature of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld & Rabbi Yisroel Chaim Baharan-Levi.
The Gaon Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld (1849-1932), spiritual leader of Orthodox Jewry in Eretz Israel. Outstanding Torah scholar, a wise and holy man. Disciple of the Ketav Sofer in the Pressburg yeshiva, and of Rabbi Avraham Schag Rabbi of Kobersdorf. He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1873 together with his teacher R. Avraham Schag, and was renowned as one of its leading Torah scholars. He was also reputed for his righteousness and holiness, and was zealously involved in communal and charity matters, operating with great wisdom. When R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin immigrated to Jerusalem in 1879, R. Yosef Chaim cleaved to him, becoming his close disciple and head of his Beit Din. He was the Maharil’s right-hand man in the battle against the Christian mission and the Haskala movement, which threatened the old Yishuv in Jerusalem. In 1919-1921, the separate community of Eida HaChareidit of Ashkenazi communities was established, and R. Yosef Chaim was appointed the first rabbi of the Eida HaChareidit earning the title of Mara D’Ara DeYisrael.
The gaon Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank [1873-1961] was the author of the series Har Tzvi, which was named for him.He served as chief rabbi of Jerusalem and was one of the leading adjudicators of his generation, successor to Rabbi Shmuel Salant as member of the beit din.
For more on the other signatories please see Hebrew description.
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