Lot 521
Letter from the Modzitzer Rebbe
Letter handwritten by Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Taub, Modzitzer Rebbe and with his full signature, to Agudat Yisrael Center. Tel Aviv, Adar 1948.
"…he belongs to our sect and is traveling to Europe to save his wife and son from the German camps, and it would be a veritably noble deed to help and support him in all that he requests….Shmuel Eliyahu Taub, son of Rabbi Shaul Yedidyah Eliezer of Modzitz ".
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu Taub (1905-1984, Encyclopedia of Chassidut, Vol III, p. 791-793), son of Rabbi Shaul Yedidyah Eliezer of Modzitz, emigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1946 whereupon he founded his House of Torah Study. Was rated amongst the prominent rebbes in Eretz Yisrael and was a member of the "Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah. The letter presented belongs to the beginning of the period in which he served as rebbe, shortly after his father's demise in Kislev 1947.
21.5 cm. Official notepaper. Good-fair condition. Filing holes and stains.
