Rabbinical ppointment from the city of Zaslow to Rabbi Meir Shraga [Feivel]. More than one hundred and twenty [!] signatures of rabbis, gaba'im and members of the community. Tevet 1823. Imporatant to history of chasidut and the Jewish community. Rabbi Meir Shraga [Feivel] Shapira, rabbi of Zaslow (Vohlin region) for about forty years. Son-in-law of the Tzadik Rabbi Mordechai of Neshchitz [first Rebbe of Neshchitz and one of the founders of this Chasidut], husband of his only daughter Zartel. His father Rabbi Ya'akov Av-Beit-Din Neshchitz was the cousin of Rabbi Mordechai, and after the death of Rabbi Ya'akov in ca.1788 Rabbi Mordechai was accepted as Rabbi of Neshchitz, according to the will of Rabbi Leibush Shapira (grandson of the "Megaleh Amukot") who ordered the people of the city not to appoint a Rabbi to replace him but from his flesh and blood. (See enclosed material). The son of Rabbi Meir Shraga is the Ga'on Rabbi Baruch Shmuel Av-Beit-Din Karnitza (Otzar Harabbanim 4240). 2 and a half pages, 35 cm. Fair condition, some signatures are faded, some slight tears to folds of paper.
Rabbinical ppointment from the city of Zaslow to Rabbi Meir Shraga [Feivel]. More than one hundred and twenty [!] signatures of rabbis, gaba'im and members of the community. Tevet 1823. Imporatant to history of chasidut and the Jewish community. Rabbi Meir Shraga [Feivel] Shapira, rabbi of Zaslow (Vohlin region) for about forty years. Son-in-law of the Tzadik Rabbi Mordechai of Neshchitz [first Rebbe of Neshchitz and one of the founders of this Chasidut], husband of his only daughter Zartel. His father Rabbi Ya'akov Av-Beit-Din Neshchitz was the cousin of Rabbi Mordechai, and after the death of Rabbi Ya'akov in ca.1788 Rabbi Mordechai was accepted as Rabbi of Neshchitz, according to the will of Rabbi Leibush Shapira (grandson of the "Megaleh Amukot") who ordered the people of the city not to appoint a Rabbi to replace him but from his flesh and blood. (See enclosed material). The son of Rabbi Meir Shraga is the Ga'on Rabbi Baruch Shmuel Av-Beit-Din Karnitza (Otzar Harabbanim 4240). 2 and a half pages, 35 cm. Fair condition, some signatures are faded, some slight tears to folds of paper.
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