A letter in the handwriting and signature of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Broida of Lvov, was sent to Rabbi Shmuel Shmalka regarding the appointment of a rabbi to Stanislav community - in his letter the genius reveals that it is appropriate to appoint a Rabbi who has everything in Torah and wisdom and virtues, and not as those seeking a rabbi who knows how to walk among ministers and speaks the language of the state. Lvov, 1910.
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Broida [1840-1928] was one of the greatest Poskim in Galicia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the last rabbi of the Jewish community in Lvov. He studied in his youth in Lublin with his uncle Rabbi Dov Berish Rapaport. He worked extensively for the benefit of the pogrom refugees of storms in the Negev in the territories of the Russian Empire, and was active in the 'Machzikei HaDat' movement in its early years, but held relatively moderate views. At a meeting of the 'Machzikei HaDat' movement that convened in Lvov in 1882, there were severe disagreements between some of the heads of those gathered, and many of them, led by his father-in-law, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Ornstein, resigned from the meeting. In this event, Rabbi Aryeh Leib became famous thanks to his success in reconciling the parties. His rabbinate in Lvov was opposed, mainly by the Belz Hasidim. It is said that he did not agree to give kosher to a wholesale bakery in Lvov, despite the income of a thousand crowns promised to him, because he did not want to deprive the poor bakers of their livelihood. Nor did he agree to give ordination to the rabbinate to those who did not have a ready-made rabbinical proposal, so that he would not come to underestimate the honor of the city rabbi at his place of residence. Rabbi Aryeh Leib emphatically ruled out the possibility of dividing communities as was done in Hungary.
Letters from Rabbi Aryeh Leib Broida are considered rare and have hardly appeared at auctions.
[2] pages. Filing holes. Good condition.
