Lot 439
Letter by Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik Av Beit Din of Brisk to Ga’on Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer
Lengthy letter in handwriting and signature of Rabbi of Brisk, the Ga’on Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik, to the Ga’on Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. Brisk (on Bug river), 11 Sivan 1936.
“… In honor of my close friend the great esteemed Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Av Beit Din and Rosh Mativta of Slotzk and presently in holy city of Jerusalem”.
Content of letter: Recommendation for young man from city of Brisk disciple of Kletsk Yeshiva “excellent amiable student of Kletsk”, who was drafted by Polish army and is requesting to immigrate to Eretz Israel. In continuation of letter Rabbi Yitzchak Zev apologies for “not responding sooner to his composition 'Even Ha’ezel' which I was honored to receive as a gift… I only had some brief comments to make and was preoccupied and forced to postpone the matter for which I beg forgiveness”.
Official stationery, 28 cm. Approx. 14 lines in his handwriting and signature. Very good condition, folding creases.
Letter unknown and unprinted in book “Letters of Rabbi Yitzchak Zev HaLevi – Rabbi of Brisk”, Jerusalem, 2008. (In letter 69 a different letter dated 10 Tamuz appears, which was written to Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky in London, with the attempt to find another solution to the matter of that young man, see there).
