Leaf with calligraphic script, decorated in colored ink – letter of good year wishes for the upcoming new year of 1889, from the trustees of Kollel Austria-Hungary. Jerusalem, [Elul 1888?].
Addressed to the treasurer of the Kollel, Rabbi Berish Avraham Banet Rabbi of Kalev Signed by the trustees and directors of the Kollel, Rabbi Yitzchak Prague Oplatka, Rabbi David Yoles & Rabbi Tuviah Aryeh Goldberger.
The first signatory Rabbi Yitzchak Prague-Oplatka (1819-1900), a native of Prague and a disciple of Maran the Chatam Sofer in Pressburg. He immigrated to Eretz Israel upon the urging of his teacher and settled in Jerusalem, where he became a prominent figure as a rabbi, physician and communal worker. Upon reaching Jerusalem, he was hosted by the Rishon LeTzion Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Ayash, and thereafter began adopting Sephardi customs and mode of dress, and began speaking Ladino. He married the daughter of R. Ayash, and since then represented the integration between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities in Jerusalem. R. Yitzchak was involved in all communal matters in Jerusalem. He was renowned as an outstanding Torah scholar, and even acquired knowledge in medicine.
He tended to the sick through various mediums, with medicinal herbs and even hypnosis, and later directed the Meir Rothschild hospital. He was one of the founders of Kollel Austria-Hungary & Hod (Holland-Deutschland), and established and directed the Doresh Tzion boys’ school. Also signed by the treasurer Rabbi Yosef Moshe Krausz (died in Jerusalem 1902)
The second signatory Rabbi David Yoles was a son in law of the Gain Rabbi Abraham Shag. Please see Hebrew description for his biography.
The third signatory Rabbi Tuvia Aryeh Goldberger, a leading rabbi and communal worker in Jerusalem. A disciple of R. Yirmiyah Löw Rabbi of Ujhel. He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1873, and was part of the initial group of dayanim in the Chassidic Beit Din in Jerusalem (lead by the Torat Chessed, Gaon of Lublin). He was an activist of Kollel Hungary and served as its trustee for twenty-three years together with R. Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
The recipient the Gaon and Tzaddik Rabbi Berish Avraham Banet son of the Gaon Rabbi Yeshayah Banet Av Beis Din of קאליב, son of the Gadol, the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Banet- Av Beis Din of Nikolsburg (Mikulov). Born in 1826, he served as Av Beis Din of קאליב from 1864 until his passing in 1902 . He upheld a large Yeshiva in קאליב and spread Torah to his Talmidim [See: Yeshivos Hungaria Page 304, Hatzaddik MiKalov VeKehillaso pages 152-156].
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