Auction 050 Part 2 Special Chabad Auction in Honor of Chag HaGeulah Yud-Tes Kislev – Rosh Hashana of Chassidut – Marking the Date in which Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi was Released from Czarist Imprisonment
Letter of Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch. Riga, 12 Cheshvan, 1932.
Typewritten on official stationery of the Rebbe Rayatz – "Department of Affairs of Kollel Chabad in our Holy Land" – with his signature "Yosef Yitzchak".
Sent to the administration of Kollel Chabad in Jerusalem [whose members were: R. Shlomo Yehudah Leib Eliezerov, R. Menachem Mendel Naeh, R. Chaim Kam, R. Yisrael Asher Libo and R. Mordechai Reuven Rokeach]: "I hereby send the text of the founding statutes of Kollel Chabad, as well as a letter to the advisory board, requesting that the statutes and letter be delivered to them".
[1] leaf, official stationery. Approx. 24 cm. Good condition. Filing holes. Folds.
Shanah Tovah letter from Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch. Warsaw, 18 Elul, 1935.
Sent to his relative R. Azriel Zelig Slonim: "For the upcoming year… I bless him and his relatives… with a Ketivah VaChatimah Tovah for a good and sweet year, physically and spiritually".
[1] leaf, official stationery. 24.5 cm. Good condition. Filing holes. Folds and creases. Marginal tears.
Letter of R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch. Brooklyn, New York, 24 Tishrei, 1948.
Typewritten on the official stationery of the Rebbe Rayatz, with his signature "Yosef Yitzchak" and an addition in his handwriting.
Sent to the dean of the Torat Emet yeshiva in Jerusalem, R. Moshe Aryeh Leib Shapiro. In his letter, the Rebbe Rayatz blesses the students of the yeshiva: "Thank God for his great kindness with the students of the Torat Emet yeshiva [during the difficult days of the War of Independence], and that you can now with God's help study without disturbances. May He bolster all their health and may they succeed in their studies and practice of fear of heaven"; he goes on to bless the yeshiva dean: "may God bolster his health and that of his family, and may He give them good livelihood and may they succeed in their service physically and spiritually".
The words "physically and spiritually" are added in the Rayatz's handwriting.
The letter is printed in the Igrot Kodesh of the Rayatz (X, 3305).
R. Moshe Aryeh Leib Shapiro (1889-1972), dean of Torat Emet yeshiva and rabbi and posek in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem. During the visit of the Rebbe Rayatz in Jerusalem in 1889, R. Shapiro was one of his escorts. Author of Nimukei Malbim and Tabeot Zahav on Ketzot HaChoshen.
[1] leaf, official stationery (thin paper). Approx. 16 cm. Good condition. Folds.