Lot 171:

Protocol of a Meeting of Kollel Vohlin Yeshiva, Signed by the Great Gaon Rabbi Shimshon Aharon Polansky of Teplik

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Protocol of a meeting of Kollel Vohlin Yeshiva, signed by the great Gaon Rabbi Shimshon Aharon Polansky of Teplik and other leading rabbis of Jerusalem. 1943.

Protocol of a meeting of the general committee of Kollel Vohlin, Ukraine and Besrobia, under the presidency of the Admor of Boyan Chernovich. The issues that were discussed include the signing of agreements, a fundraiser for the Kollel in Israel and abroad and more.

The protocol is signed by ‘the famed Gaon Rav Rabbi Shimshon Aharon Polansky’ who added his handwritten signature. Beneath him are signed: Rabbi Yitzchak Yoel Margolis, the lawyer Alexander Eliash, Rabbi Shmuel Kamnetzki, Rabbi Moshe Shapiro, Rabbi Yitzchak David Bernstein, Rabbi Yaakov Stefansky and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Bak, all famed for the activity for the poor of Eretz Yisroel.

Interestingly, despite the fact that the holy Rav Rabbi Menachem Nachum of Boyan Chernovich had passed away seven years earlier, his name still appears on the official stationery, or possibly, it refers to one of his sons Rabbi Aharon or Rabbi Mordechai Sheraga, although they did not officially serve as Admorim due to their great modesty.

The Gaon Rabbi Shimshon Aharon Polansky "The Tepliker Rov" (1876-1948), the father of the Psak and Hora’ah tradition, one of the greatest Poskim of all generations who taught many great rabbis and Poskim. At a young age served as Rav in several cities until he was accepted as the Rav of Teplik, where he served for about twenty years as Rav and Av Beis Din. Later, he immigrated to Eretz Yisroel, living in a basement apartment in the Beis Yidroel neighborhood. Was renowned as greatly knowledgeable and as a sharp Gaon. The greatest Poskim were his disciples or assistants, including Maranan Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rabbi Yisroel Yaakov Fischer, Rabbi David Jungreis, Rabbi Shmuel Halevi Wosner, the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the Rishon LeZion the Gaon Rabbi Ovadya Yosef and more.

[1] stationery of the Kollel. A tear on the right, not affecting the text. Notation and aging stains. Good-very good condition.

Measurement: 21 x 27.5 CM

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