Letter of request for charity for bridal dowry. Letter contains recommendations in handwriting and signatures of rabbis and gabbaim from Eretz Yisrael. Jerusalem, (1924).
Signed by: Rabbi Yosef Gershon Horowitz (1869-1951, rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of “Me’ah She’arim” Yeshiva); Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Bernstein (1880-1949, Chief Av Beit Din of Chassidim and Rosh Yeshiva of “Chayei Olam”); Rabbi Schneur Zalman Slonim (1862-1936, rabbi of Hebron and Jaffa); Rabbi Ya’akov Mordechai Singer (1862-1928, rabbi and slaughterer in Rishon LeZion); Rabbi Nachum Zvi Yaffe and Rabbi Yitzchak Yo’el Margaliot (gabbai of Kollel Vahlen in Jerusalem); Isser Yanovsky (council secretary of Rishon LeZion). See attached material for additional information about signatories.
Two pages, 33.5 cm. Fair condition, folding marks and tears.

Letter to Rabbi Ya’akov Rabinowitz of Lutzen [Rabbi of Rabbi Kook in his youth and relative]. Contains unknown details regarding Rabbi Kook. [Vilkaviskis, 1885].
Unidentified writer, relative of Rabbi Ya’akov Rabinowitz, who announces his engagement to daughter of Rabbi Yehuda Yitzchak HaLevi Segal of Vilkaviskis. He also mentions common relatives: “…our friends and relatives… our relative Dover…”.
On margins of letter, the writer adds: “I was informed that our relative Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen became engaged to daughter of Av Beit Din of Ponevezh; I would like to know whether this is true as well as additional details since I was very happy to hear that he was miraculously saved from Av Beit Din of Toretz”.
Recipient of letter, Rabbi Rabinowitz (1856-1919), son of the Ga’on Rabbi Mordechai Gimpel Yaffe Av Beit Din of Razina. Merchant and manager of Jewish bank in town of Lutzen, among prominent community activists in Lithuania, who was also known as exalted genius in Torah.
The Ga’on Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook who was his relative [see attached material] spent time with him in his youth and was his disciple [in his letters Rabbi Kook refers to him as “my rabbi and mentor”].
This letter, which was written approximately two months following engagement of Rabbi Kook to daughter of the Aderet [Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz-Teomim] Av Beit Din of Ponevezh, contains unknown details pertaining to former engagement of Rabbi Kook to daughter of Rabbi of Toretz [apparently Rabbi Mordechai Beharif author of Darchei Mordechai] which was annulled.
[3] pages. 20 cm. Good condition, stains and wear. Folding marks.

Letter from Rabbi Alexander Zusha Friedman to “She’arim” editorial staff in Tel Aviv, regarding collection in honor of Great Assembly of Agudat Yisrael. Warsaw, 1937.
Rabbi Alexander Zusha Friedman (1897-perished in Holocaust in Cheshvan 1943), genius Torah scholar and well-known community activist, speaker, author and organizer, founded Agudat Yisrael newspaper “Diglenu”. Among the founders and ideologists of Agudat Yisrael movements in Poland (Tze’irei Agudat Yisrael, Po’alei Agudat Yisrael, Bnot Agudat Yisrael, Beit Ya’akov, Yesodei HaTorah and more). From 1925 served as general secretary of “Agudat Yisrael” in Poland. His books on the Torah, Ma’ayana Shel Torah (Der Torah Kval), were published in dozens of editions.
14x9 cm. postcard, with printed logo. Good-fair condition, creases, filing holes and minor tears.

Letter and notes of Divrei Torah and stories of Chasidim, handwritten by the Rebbe of Alexander, Rabbi Yehuda Moshe Tahiberg, author of the Emunat Moshe.
The letter is addressed to "Harav Hachasid R' Noach" [probably R' Noach Gad Weintraub], in which he copies short words from his brother Rabbi Avraham Shraga Tahiberg, who perished, together with his wife and two sons, in the Nazi hell in Lodz, Poland. The Rebbe requested of his to "make a place for these Torah thoughts in one of the booklets that you print".
In the notes, the Rebbe writes tales of Chasidim, told by the Ba'al Shem Tov and the Rebbes of Alexander.
Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Tahiberg (1893-1973, Encyclopedia of Chasidut B, pages 43-44) was a son-in-law of Rabbi Bezael Ya'ir Danziger. He made aliya to Jerusalem, and after the holocaust, in which most of the Rebbes of Alexander were murdered, he was appointed as Rebbe.
Altogether 6 leaves, of varying sizes and conditions. Mostly good condition.

Manuscript, Nachalat Yeshaya – last will and testament of Rabbi Yeshaya Markowitz. 1925-1928.
Five columns in square handwriting, paper glued upon cardboard and folded as hand-held fan.
On first column: “Zemer LaNefesh” [song for soul] – poetic song, with signature: “Composed through tears… 11 Tamuz 1925… Yeshaya son of Yitzchak HaLevi Markowitz”.
Will listed on following four columns. The writer requests that his sons observe Torah and Mitzvot, and signs: “Written in weakness and anguish, your loving father… 1925, Yeshaya…”.
Height of column: 33.5 cm. Good condition, stains and wear.