Interesting Letter by the Gaon of Memphis Rabbi Nota Tzvi Greenblatt 1969 for Sale

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Interesting Letter by the Gaon of Memphis Rabbi Nota Tzvi Greenblatt 1969:
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Rav Nota, as he was known by thousands, was born in 1925 in Washington, DC, to Rav Yitzchak and Sara Rivka neé Appelbaum, both natives of Brisk (in fact, Rav Chaim Brisker was their mesader kiddushin). Rav Yitzchak was in the US, collecting funds for the Brisker yeshivah and then assumed a rabbinical position in Washington. After serving as a rav in Washington as well as in New York State, Rav Yitzchak would later serve as a rav in Newark, New Jersey, where he established its first day school. A masmid at a young age, Rav Nota would join a chaburah under Rav Dovid Leibowitz in the new Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim. He was only 13 years old at the time! After spending time with Rav Michel Feinstein in Boston, Rav Nota moved to the Lower East Side and spent the next several years under the tutelage of Rav Moshe Feinstein. Rav Nota was known as one of Rav Moshe’s closest talmidim.

A few years later, in 1949, after spending some time in Eretz Yisrael, Rav Nota relocated to Memphis. Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky drove him to the train station for his trip to Memphis to assume the position of Talmud Torah teacher and chazan of the Anshei Sefard shul, and his meeting with destiny, as he would end up staying in that city until last year. Soon, he would hear about a certain “Kaplan girl” who couldn’t find a shidduch, because she was shomer Shabbos and the South had few men who lived up to her high Torah standards. Rav Nota thought that a girl like that—who along with her family could maintain Yiddishkeit in such a place without even the benefit of a traditional Bais Yaakov education—was suitable for him. They were soon married, and she and their five children would join Rav Nota in sacrificing for the community and the klal.
Aside from establishing its day school, high school and yeshivos, Rav Nota was far from a simple out-of-town rav. He spent several decades traveling around the globe writing gittin, performing bris milah, and taking care of all matters in locations where there was no rav, or the rav felt unqualified. He was the posek whom many other well-known poskim would call, up until he was well into his 90s.
Yehi zichro baruch.

ByRabbi Moshe TaubAmi Magazine