Responsa Imrei Yosher Part I (Munkacs, 1913), By Rabbi Meir Arik. First edition, Munkacs 1913.
Signature & marginal notation of Rabbi Yosef Gelernter (1892-1942) HY"D Rabbi of Brussels.
See Hebrew description for his biography.
The author Rabbi Meir Arik (1855-Tishrei 1925), a leading Galician Torah scholar. He served as rabbi of Yazlovets, Buchach and Tarnów. He was a disciple of Rabbi Yaakov of Rimalov (Hrymailiv) and of the Maharsham. From 1885, he served as rabbi of Yazlovets, in place of his teacher the Maharsham who moved to Berezhany. From 1912, he served as rabbi of Buchach. During WWI, he fled to Vienna, studying Torah there with his friend Rabbi Yosef Engel. Following the war, he returned to Galicia and was appointed rabbi of Tarnów. Many of Poland’s leading Torah scholars were his close disciples, the most renowned ones include Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin, Rabbi Aryeh Tzvi Frumer – the Gaon of Koziegłowy, Rabbi David Sperber – Gaon of Brașov, Rabbi Yehuda Horowitz – Rebbe of Dzikov, Rabbi Meshulam Roth author of Kol Mevaser, Rabbi Reuven Margolies and Rabbi Yehoshua Ehrenberg Rabbi of Tel Aviv.
He was a prominent Chortkov Chassid, deeply attached with bonds of love, fear and submission to his teachers Rebbe David Moshe and Rebbe Yisrael of Chortkov. The leading Torah scholars of his generation greatly revered him. Rebbe Maharid of Belz declared: "After Maharsham [of Berezhany], we don’t do anything in our court without consulting R. Meir". Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski praised him: "Such a R. Meir, we don’t have in Lithuania".
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