Letter by the Ga'on Rabbi Yechiel Ya'akov Weinberg, to the Ga'on Rabbi Betzalel Zholti. Montreux (Switzerland), [1963].
Letter of thanks for the book Mishnat Ya'abatz by Rabbi Betzalel Zholti. In the letter Rabbi Weinberg refers to the two sections of this book Sridei Esh which were printed during that period.
Rabbi Yechiel Ya'akov Weinberg (1884-1966), genius and known Halachic ruler, among the greatest disciples of the Alter of Slobodka. At a young age served as rabbi in Pilevski (Lithuania). After the demise of his close associate the Ga'on Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Kaplan, was appointed in his place as head of the Beit Midrash for Rabbis in Berlin. During the Holocaust was expelled to Poland, was in Warsaw Ghetto for a period of time, were he served as president of the Rabbis Association. Was sent to a labor camp and survived the Holocaust. After the War arrived in Montreux in Switzerland, were he headed the Yeshiva until his death. His Chiddushim which were salvaged from the War by one of his disciples were named Sridei Esh.
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