Long Halachic responsum, handwritten and signed by the holy Gaon Rabbi Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal, author of “Mishneh Sachir” and “Eim Habanim Smeicha”. Written in 1940 – in the middle of the Holocaust.
Long Halachic letter, containing a long, scholarly discourse on the topic of the obligations of Shmira, entirely handwritten by the holy Gaon Rabbi Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal HY”D, and bearing his signature. Sent to the Gaon Rabbi Michael Blum Av Beis Din of Michalovce. Piešťany, 1940.
This manuscript, along with his other manuscripts, was left by the author in the hands of a gentile, before being taken to the death camps. He had hoped to be able to come back and redeem them, but that was not meant to be. After the war, his daughter, Mrs. Hindel Klausner, came and redeemed his manuscripts from the gentile. This responsum was printed in his Sefer “Mishne Sachir” on Orach Chayim, §102.
The holy Gaon Rabbi Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal (1885-1945) served as Rabbi and rosh Yeshiva in Piešťany, a resort town in Western Slovakia. Known for his responsa “Mishne Sachir”. Before WWII his views on Zionism were similar to those of most Hungarian Rabbis, and, while he did join with the Minchas Elazar of Munkatch in decrying Zionism, he was not busy with it. After the outbreak of WWII his views changed, and he called for immigrating to Eretz Yisrael, a topic he discusses in his Sefer “Eim Habanim Smeicha”.
Managed to publish, pre-WWII, two volumes of “Responsa Mishne Sachir” and his “Eim Habanim Smeicha”. After the war, three more volumes of Responsa Mishne Sachir, a diary he wrote during the holocaust called “Emuna Tzrufa BeKur HaShoah” (Faith Forged in the Crucible of the Holocaust), Mishne Sachir on the Torah, and Mishne Sachir on the holidays were published by his descendants.
[1] sheet of paper, written on both sides. All in his handwriting and with his signature. 21×29.5cm. Old water stain. Fold mark. Good condition.
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