incisive discourse by the Gaon and Tzadik of Tolchova – Partly not printed
A sharp incisive pilpul by the H’Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Glick of Tolchova. This letter was written in his later years to his Talmid Akiva Blau, regarding the halachic questions of sending a messenger for a dvar aveirah.
This letter was written when the Tolchova Rav was sick, and his eye was bandaged with a kerchief.
"I received your letter a few weeks ago. However, my grandson did not tell me about it, because I was in great pain and I could not look into a sefer…. Now, shevach la’kel, I am feeling a bit better… but I am still busy with doctors, and one eye is bandaged with a kerchief…therefore I will give you a short l answer…"
This responsa is partially printed in Shu"t Yad Yitzchok (Vol. 3 Ch. 286). Approximately one page of writing is not printed. The beginning of the letter is also not printed.
Ha’Gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchok Glick (1826-1909), the Tolchova Rav was one of the leading Rabbonim in Hungary in his generation. He was known as a tremendous masmid with a sharp, incisive mind. He was a talmid of Ha’Gaon Rabbi Shmelke of Selish and other giants of his generation. He married the daughter of Ha’gaon Rabbi Yeshaya Benet of Kalev the son of Rabbi Mordechai Benet of Nikolsburg. He was revered and respected by all the Gedolim of his generation, and remained at his post in Tolchova for about fifty years. He is well known for his sefer Yad Yitzchok (three volumes with about nine hundred responsa and clarifications of halacha) and his seforim Be’er Yitzchok on Shas.
