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Two letters from the family of the Chazon Ish, concerning the marriage of Rabbi Shlomo Shimshon Karelitz - the eldest grandson of the Karelitz family, [1939-1940]:
· Letter in Yiddish "To our sister-in-law the Rebbetzin", handwritten and signed by Rabbi Meir Karelitz, as well as by his wife, Rebbetzin Miriam. Sent to their sister-in-law, Rebbetzin Batya Karelitz, wife of the Chazon Ish, containing a personal request to come to Jerusalem to participate in the joy of the wedding of their eldest son, Rabbi Shlomo Shimshon with Devorah Weiner. [1940].
· Letter in Yiddish handwritten and signed by Rebbetzin "M. Kanievsky", to her friend Ms. Weiner. [In the letter she relates that her brother Rabbi Meir Karelitz is coming to Jerusalem for Shabbat and will visit them in their home to conclude the matter "G-d willing, with joy and success" - apparently referring to the conclusion of the match of his son Rabbi Shlomo Shimshon with Ms. Weiner's daughter. [Bnei Brak, autumn 1939].
Rabbi Meir Karelitz (1877-1955), was Av Beit Din of Bilohirya (Lachovitz), eldest brother of the Chazon Ish and leader of Charedi Jewry in Poland and in Eretz Israel. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in the summer of 1939 and in Kislev of that year, his son Rabbi Shlomo Shimshon Karelitz became engaged to Devora Weiner of Vilna, who immigrated to Jerusalem with her widowed mother. The shadchan of this match was the Chazon Ish who sent his young sister, Rebbetzin Miriam Pesha Kanievsky [the Steipler's wife] to arrange the shidduch. The wedding took place in Jerusalem in Adar on Erev Shabbat, Parshat Ki Tisa 1940, and the Chazon Ish stayed that Shabbat in the home of his brother Rabbi Meir Karelitz, in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem. [This is one of the few times that the Chazon Ish visited Jerusalem during the two decades he lived in Eretz Israel].
Two letters, varying size. The first is written on an official postcard of Rabbi Meir Karelitz from the city of Bilohirya (Lachovitz). Good condition.