Handwritten letter signed by Gaon Rabbi Yonatan Shteif,
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Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yonatan Shteif to Rabbi Yosef Haim Zonnenfeld, with a few lines of response and the signature of Rabbi Zonnenfeld. In the letter, Rabbi Yonatan contacts the rabbis of the Eida regarding a case between different suitors, some of whom lived in Budapest and some of whom in Jerusalem. He asks that they work with those living in Jerusalem to reach an end and solution to the machloket between them. On the back Rabbi Zonnenfeld writes that indeed one can trust an anonymous person to take care of the get and signs his name.
14x22cm. Filing holes, good condition.
Rabbi Yonatan Shteif (1877-1958) was the son of Rabbi Zvi. He was a dayan and RaÕavad of Budapest and a great posek in the USA after World War II. He was a student of the Shabas (Simcha Bonem Sofer), Rabbi David Neuman of Pressburg, and Rabbi Eliezer Zussman Sofer of Paks (the Yalkut Eliezer). He was son-in-law of Rabbi Michael Fishel of Paks. He also served as Ram in the Neutra yeshiva in Mount Kiska, New York. He wrote Chadashim Gam Yeshanim, Drosh vÕChiddush, and more.
Rabbi Yosef Haim Zonenfeld (1849-1933) was the GaÕavad of the Charedi community and a great sage of Israel.
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