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Amazingly beautiful
exceptional pure 18-carat

          gold tas

with more than 200 diamonds and precious stones

                 This place is the only one known in the world made of pure gold given by the honorable
                 governor pursuer of justice and great kindness and outstanding and generous teacher
                 Rabbi Shraga Feivel Frank, the father-in-law of the sages Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein,
                 head of the Hevron Yeshiva, and Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, head of the Etz Haim Yeshiva,
                 rabbi of all the diaspora, the sage Rabbi Yitzhak Elhanan Sptecter, rabbi of Kovno in ‫ עמ"ח‬the
                 books ‫ שו"ת‬Beer Yitzhak, Nahal Yitzhak and Ein Yitzhak. The 19th century plate is stamped
                 in Russian (72).
                 Rabbi Rosen of Bucharest, the chief rabbi of Romania, brought the gold tas to Romania and
                 stamped with the Romanian stamp (P). The hannukiah later became part of the Finkelstein
                 collection in Antwerp.

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