Igros Moshe
Igros Moshe is a nine-volume series of halakhic responsa by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. The first seven volumes were published during Feinstein's lifetime, and the last two were published posthumously in Jerusalem.Overview
was recognized during his lifetime as the posek hador, the final decisor in halakhic queries, by much of the world's Orthodox Jewish community, due to his reputation as a talmid chacham with deep knowledge in all areas of Torah. The most difficult questions were often mailed to him. In 1959, a compilation of these questions related to the laws of Orach Chaim were printed in the first volume of Igros Moshe. Later volumes were printed over the next twenty five years, with the publishing of the sixth volume in c. 1985. The remaining two volumes were published posthumously, largely based on manuscripts, with the final printing in 2011. Altogether, the series includes thousands of responsa. In addition, an index titled Yad Moshe was published, listing different ideas and where one can find relating halakhos in the Igros Moshe. His son-in-law, Rabbi David Tendler, translated some of Igros Moshe in Responsa of Rav Moshe Feinstein: translation and commentary.Visit from Begin
On Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's trip to the United States in 1977, he visited Feinstein in his apartment in New York. Also present at the meeting were Yitzchak Hutner and Yaakov Kamenetsky, also senior Haredi rabbis in the United States. Before Begin arrived his security agents combed Feinstein's apartment for weapons or explosives that may have been planted there to harm the prime minister. Upon seeing this, Hutner said that if they were searching for explosives, they would "only find them in the writings of our host!" He was referring to the creative and novel ideas and decisions that Feinstein had penned in Igros Moshe.Depth
On the tenth yahrtzeit of Rabbi Feinstein, the mashgiach ruchani of Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem, Rabbi Chaim Ganzweig, wrote the following in The Jewish Observer: