Rare Handwritten and Signed Letter of Endorsement from Rabbi Mordechai Azriel Weinberger, Av Beis Din of Margaretten, grandson of the Mahariatz
A rare handwritten and signed letter of endorsement from Rabbi Mordechai Azriel Weinberger of Margaretten on the sefer ‘Sha’arei Limud’ by Rabbi Tzvi Moskowitz of Margaretten, written during the Holocaust.
Sefer ‘Sha’arei Limud’ was published in Margaretten anonymously. In this endorsement, the author’s name is mentioned explicitly.
The haskama was written in 1942 – in the midst of the Holocaust, in which Rabbi Mordechai Azriel Hy"d, was murdered.
Rabbi Mordechai Azriel Weinberger (1883 – 1953) was the son of Rabbi Shmuel Zalman Weinberger, Av Beis Din of Margaretten son of the Mahariatz. He served as Av Beis Din of Margretten from 1934 and as Rosh Yeshiva there. Rabbi Mordechai Azriel frequented various Chassidic courts and his yeshiva had a Chassidic flavor. He himself had a "tisch" and even ba’alei batim would flock to hear his words of Torah and Chassidus. He was taken to the Grosswardein Ghetto in 1943 and was then deported to Auschwitz. He was murdered on the 3rd of Sivan, 1944. [Fuchs, The Yeshivos in Hungary p. 426]. Margaretten,
Margaretten, 1942
Size: 17 x 21 cm.
Condition: Signs of tearing on the upper margins.
