Letter from Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Lichtenstein, Av Beis Din of Betlan, Regarding Kashrut matters
Letter of testimony to the presidents of Budapest’s Orthodox Union affirming the kosher status of chickens being slaughtered by a shochet u’bodek from Betlan and sold in Budapest.
"I hereby declare that you can rely on him and purchase from him without any fear or doubt. The only matter that must be supervised is that every chicken is sealed with my seal, and every transport includes a hechsher from me, in which it will be written from where the chickens were sent and on what day and hour they were slaughtered…"
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Lichtenstein, Av Beis Din of Betlan and its environs, was the son of Rabbi Yehuda Lichtenstein, Av Beis Din of Betlan. In his youth, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman learned under the tutelage of the Atzei Chaim of Sighet, as well as his uncle, Rabbi Yosef Lichtenstein. Upon accepting the position of Rabbi of Betlan, he invested significant energy in the spreading of Torah and in the city’s yeshiva. Following Germany’s invasion, his congregation was transferred to the Deyzh Ghetto and from there to Auschwitz. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman perished on the 10th of Sivan, 1944.
1 leaf | 22 x 15 cm | fine condition
1942
