Letter handwritten, signed and stamped by R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein, dean of the Knesset Yisrael yeshiva in Hebron. Jerusalem, Shevat 1933.
Addressed to R. Yechezkel Abramsky, who was serving as rabbi of the Machazikei HaDat community in London, requesting assistance for the yeshiva's emissary R. Yitzchak Greenblatt, who traveled to London for the yeshiva.
R. Moshe Mordechai's letter describes the high standard of study in the Hebron yeshiva and its prestige, attracting students from all over the world to study with dedication.
R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866-1933), a leading yeshiva dean and Torah scholar in his generation. Studied in the Volozhin yeshiva, served as dean of the Knesset Yisrael yeshiva in Slabodka from its beginning, and later as Rabbi of Slabodka; also established a network of Torah schools throughout Lithuania. In 1925 he sent a group of his disciples to Eretz Israel to found the Hebron branch of the yeshiva, which moved to Jerusalem after the 1929 Hebron massacre. R. Moshe Mordechai headed both yeshivas, in Lithuania and Eretz Israel.
[1] leaf. Official stationery. 27.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks.
The present letter was published with a facsimile in Melech BeYofyo, p. 265.
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