Letter by Greiditz Rabbis – 1812

Letter by Greiditz Rabbis – 1812
Letter by the Beit Din of Greiditz, signed by the Rabbi of the city, Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai, and the dayanim Rabbi Shimon son of Rabbi Moshe and Rabbi Yekutiel son of Rabbi Moshe of Lublin. Greiditz, Tevet 1812. The letter was sent to the Beit Din of Hamburg, headed by the Ra'avad Rabbi Lezil, regarding a debt to a widow from Greiditz by a person who moved to Hamburg. Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai, Av Beit Din of Greiditz (ca. 1730-1813), was a disciple of Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz and disciple and son-in-law of Rabbi Gedalya Tiktin, Av Beit Din of Swarzędz. After the death of his father-in-law in 1779, he adopted his young brother-in-law Avraham [who was seven years old at the time] and raised him like his own son and taught him Torah [he became the renowned Rabbi Avraham Tiktin who served as Av Beit Din of Breslau. Rabbi Tiktin mentions his brother-in-law and teacher in the introduction to his book, Petach HaBayit, and calls him a "true Torah genius and tsaddik"]. In 1795, he was appointed Av Beit Din of Greiditz and was celebrated as one of the greatest Torah scholars of his generation. His novellae were recently printed from a manuscript in the book "Chiddushei Rabbi Mordechai of Greiditz" (Jerusalem, 1981). Leaf, 33 cm. Good-fair condition, folding marks, stains and minor tears. On the reverse side of the leaf is an inscription of an address and the remnants of a wax stamp of the Greiditz community.