A letter from Rabbi Menachem Nathan Auerbach – the twenties

A letter on official stationery of Rabbi Menachem Nathan Auerbach, in his handwriting and signature, with an emotional appeal to the Chief Rabbinate for an aguna woman where her husband slanders her and refuses to divorce her. Rabbi Auerbach testifies that he personally knows her and that she is his wife's helper.
After signing, he adds that, contrary to the printed paper and the stamp, he is no longer rabbi of Zichon Moshe, but in Ruhama neighborhood.
Rabbi Menachem Nathan (Neta) Auerbach (1858-1930) was a great genius all parts of the Tora, and was known as a great person in the holy city of Jerusalem. As a child he stood out as a brilliant child, and when he was Bar Mitzvah, he was sent by his father to Jerusalem to be taught by his grandfather, Rabbi Meir Auerbach Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem. In 1885 he was ordained by the Rabbi Joshua of Kutna.Was among the activists founding neighborhoods and Yeshivot in Israel. One of the founders of the Chief Rabbinate 1921. Served as a speaker for the Association of Rabbis and teachers in Jerusalem. Served as rabbi of Mazkeret Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem and then of Ruhama neighborhood. Was accepted by all sectors of the public, secular, too. Would often hold marriage ceremonies for these pioneers. Was a close friend and frequent visitor to the house of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, and was also popular among the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel, he also was the in-law of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rabbai of the haredi community. He left behind many assays, most of them have not yet been published.
Condition: Very good, filing hole marks out a letter.
Size: 21X28 cm