WALKIN, AHARON.

(Av Beth Din Of Pinsk - Karlin, 1865-1942). Autograph Letter Signed, Written On Letterhead In Hebrew To Rabbi Shlomo Steinberg.

Expressing appreciation for funds received, shares personal news of the ill health of wife and daughter, notes with joy his eldest daughter is to be married to a young man steeped in Torah.

Pinsk: Erev Pesach 1933

R. Aharon Walkin was one of the great rabbinic leaders of Lithuania prior to the Holocaust. He had been a close disciple of the Netziv in Volozhin and after the yeshiva closed in 1892, he continued his studies in Kovno under the guidance of R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor. R. Walkin was a leading writer of responsa and authored Beth Aharon, Choshen and Zekan Aharon. Active in Agudath Israel, R. Walkin visited the United States on its behalf in 1914. He and most all of his family were murdered by the Nazis in the summer of 1942.

Rabbi Steinberg (1884-1973) then living in Boksburg, South Africa, was the chief fundraiser for the Mirrer Yeshiva.