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Lot 338

Letters of Call for Rescue - By the Students of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva - Kobe, Japan

Two postcards send in the winter of 1941 to the US to Rabbi Moshe Rottenberg from his friends, students of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva who exiled from war-torn Europe to Kobe, Japan.
· Long Yiddish autograph letter signed by the Kotzk-Sokolov Rebbe "Mendel Meir Morgenstern". Kobe, February 1941.
· Autograph letter signed by Rabbi "Elazar Meir Bein". On the margin of the postcard is another Yiddish letter from a different writer [perhaps Rabbi Mordechai Yehuda Lubart]. Kobe, February 1941.
The Kotzk-Sokolov Rebbe Menachem Mendel Meir Morgenstern (1921-2014), grandson and disciple of Rebbe Yitzchak Zelig of Sokolov. Disciple of the Chachmei-Lublin Yeshiva. Immigrated to Eretz Israel and established his beit midrash in Tel Aviv and in his senior years in Bnei Brak.
Rebbe Elazar Meir Bein (1913-1998), beloved disciple of the Piaseczno Rebbe, author of Chovat HaTalmidim, moved to Jerusalem and was a foremost Chassidic and Torah leader and teacher.
2 postcards, 14 cm. Good condition.