In חלקנו בתורתיך Helkenu Betoratecha, published in 1951, authored by R. Zvi Hirsch Friedman, we find published 2 approbations in the book that seem like a very odd pair. In the beginning of the book appears a letter from R. Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe and at end of the book appears a letter from Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century and a Conservative Rabbi.
R. Zevi Hirsch Friedman learned by the Kidushat Yom Tov of Sighet (R. Hananiah Yom Tov Lipa of Sighet) and the Arugat ha-Bosem of Hust. He was the Av Bet Din of האטסעג, and later resided in Brooklyn
The letter of the Satmar Rebbe is not an Haskumeh on the sefer, but a halachic commentary (Tchuvah).
ReplyDeleteRabbi Friedman, the author, besides being a talmud from his father the Kedushas Y"T he was a distant relative, decsending from a brother of the Yismach Moshe.
He was known as Rabbi Erno Friedman and can be seen in the photos of the Rabbis March in Washington October 1943.
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