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Lot 148:

Handwritten Eulogy, by Rabbi Asher Segal Lavi. Kalov, ca. 1936

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"I do not know how to eulogize since he was such a great man I cannot appropriately eulogize since he was great in Torah and Avodah and Chochma and Yirah and all that is said of him is but very little of his good deeds … our leader has been taken, leader in Torah, leader in wisdom, leader in G-d fearingness Tzaddik of the generation, Gedol HaDor … And this Tzaddik all know that for many years he studied Torah and worked with his holy prayers and when he was not studying he was occupied with all the other things mentioned in the Mishnah charity, and bringing peace between a man and his friends and for such a Tzaddik one must weep". 

[1] leaf, official statinery, 23 cm. The manuscript was written with pencil and pen. Possibly, the leaf before us contains only part of a longer eulogy. 

Rabbi Asher Segal Lavi – was born to his father the Holy Rabbi Elimelech Segal Lavi Abd of Tosh (Nir-Tosh). The son-in-law of his brother Rabbi Mordechai Abd of Demcher. Since 1935 served in Kalov, in north-eastern Hungary as Domatz and later Abd. Was the Rav of his nephew the Holy Rabbi Meshulam Fisch Lavi the Sdmor of Tosh-Canada. Close to the occupation of Hungary by the Germans in 1944, the Jews of Kalov were deprted to the ghetto in Nirghaza and from there to the Auschwitz Death Camp. Among the murdered were Rabbi Asher Segal Lavi, his wife, eight children and most members of their community. 

Fold marks, slight wear in the leaf along the fold lines, aging stains, good condition.