Beschreibung:

Printed pamphlet, with two halachic responses concerning vacating graves and burying ashes of cremated bodies, by Rabbi Meir Lerner Av Beit Din of Altona. Printed without a title page in Cracow 1903. On the margins of the last page, Rabbi Meir Lerner added a handwritten letter addressed to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, with a request that he express his opinion on the responsa in the pamphlet. Rabbi Meir writes that "almost all the leading Jewish rabbis" already agreed with him and he lists the names of several rabbis. In 1903, the question of vacating graves for paving a road arose in Altona to which Rabbi Lerner wrote the first responsum in this pamphlet. The second responsum deals with burying the ashes of bodies cremated by request. Rabbi Lerner printed the pamphlet and sent it to many rabbis. Rabbi Chanoch Ehrentrau of Munich printed the pamphlet Cheker Halacha as "a response to the pamphlets printed by Dr. Lerner Av Beit Din of Altona" (Munich 1904). A year later, Rabbi Meir printed the book Chayei Olam (Berlin 1905), with dozens of letters of responsa which he received from rabbis throughout the world who agreed with his opinion which also included the responsum of Rabbi Shmuel Salant of Jerusalem. Enclosed is the envelope in which the pamphlet was sent from Altona to Jerusalem. 8 pages. 25 cm. Good condition, folding marks [for placing the pamphlet into the envelope], wear and few stains. + an envelope, with tears.