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6 letters of rabbinic ordination - including an elegant certificate on parchment, accorded to R. Binyamin Ze'ev Jacobson, in the wake of his appointment in 1934 as rabbi of the Machzikei HaDat community in Copenhagen. Germany, 1934 and 1938. • Certificate of ordination on parchment, "Yoreh, Yoreh! Yadin, Yadin!", signed by rabbis of Berlin, heads of the Rabbinical Seminary: R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg author of Seridei Esh, and R. Shmuel HaKohen Grünberg. Scribal script. Berlin, 1938. At the foot of the certificate, an addition in the scribe's handwriting: "Our colleague R. Y. Freimann Rabbi of Berlin concurred with us and wished to affix his signature as well, yet he unfortunately passed away", followed by additional signatures of the Seridei Esh and R. Grünberg. • Letter of ordination handwritten and signed by R. Shmuel Yosef Rabinow - yeshiva dean in Hamburg. Hamburg, 1934. • Letter of ordination handwritten and signed by R. Pinchas HaKohen of Ansbach. Ansbach, [1934]. • Letter of ordination handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Yitzchak Klein - rabbi of the K'hal Adath Yisrael community in Nuremberg. Nuremberg, 1934. • Letter of ordination from R. Yosef Yonah Tzvi HaLevi Horowitz Rabbi of K'hal Adath Jeshurun. Frankfurt am Main, 1934. Typewritten on the official stationery of the Office of the Rabbinate in Frankfurt, signed and stamped by R. Horowitz. • Letter of ordination handwritten and signed by R. Ze'ev Tzvi HaKohen Klein, rabbi in Berlin. R. Binyamin Zev Jacobson (1894-1973), a prominent young rabbi, amongst the German Torah leaders, head of Agudat Yisrael and a founder of Keren HaTorah. A brilliant Torah scholar and renowned speaker. He was born in Hamburg to a family of rabbis, leaders of German Orthodox Jewry. In 1932, he arrived in Berlin, and in 1934, he went to serve as rabbi of Denmark. Already in 1933, with the rise of the Nazi party to power, the rabbis of the community appointed the young and quick-witted rabbi, to be the community's liaison with the Gestapo division established by the Nazi government (to deal with Jewish and communist matters). Within the framework of this position, the Nazis requested clarifications on halachic expressions which the censors found in letters of various rabbis, and compelled him to use his ties with world Jewry, assigning him various tasks. Upon the advice of the elderly R. Hildesheimer, R. Jacobson went to serve as rabbi of Denmark. In those years, he was very involved in rescue work, and together with other rabbis in Denmark and Sweden, succeeded in rescuing thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. After a decade-long tenure in Denmark, he escaped to Sweden in 1944, together with Danish Jewry, and settled in Stockholm. In Sweden, R. Jacobson established together with his wife the famous Lidingö institution, which served as a home to Orthodox girls who had survived the Holocaust. Between 1948-1949, all the Lidingö girls immigrated to Eretz Israel, and R. Jacobson and his wife joined the last group of girls in their immigration. There too, their home became the home of the Lidingö girls. R. Jacobson reaped much satisfaction from his pupils and their progeny. In his books, he notes with pride that almost all the girls merited to establish beautiful homes of Torah and lovingkindness. In Jerusalem, R. Jacobson served as rabbi of the Pagi housing complex in Sanhedria. Apart from his books of homily, R. Jacobson published his memoirs in various forums. These articles were compiled in his book Zichronot (Jerusalem, 1953), and in Esa De'i LemeRachok (Tel Aviv, 1967). In these books, he mentions these letters of ordination, which he received in order to impress the Copenhagen community, and the Danish authorities, whose sanction was required for this appointment. R. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg (1884-1966), a renowned Torah scholar and halachic authority, a foremost disciple of the Saba of Slabodka. He served from a young age as rabbi of Pilwishki (Pilviškiai, Lithuania). After the passing o