Collection of rabbis' letters and signed documents – Romania, 1844-1951.
• Document regarding laws of neighbors and chezkat batim, signed by R' Berish Greenwald with signatures of the Beit Din and the witnesses who authorize his signature: Rabbi Yitzchak ben Rabbi Gedalya, Rabbi Avner ben R' Moshe and Rabbi Yosef ben R' --- Goldberg. Fălticeni, 1857. • Weksil (promissory note) signed by "Yosef ben Rabbi Ya'akov" and other signatures. Bacău, 1844. • Letter, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Schorr Av Beit Din of Bucharest, to the Camăr community and to the rabbi of the community Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad, about voting in the elections to the Romanian parliament, in favor of the Liberal-Datshustin party, which "promised to erase the adversaries and enemies, Hitlerism”. Kislev 1933. • Interesting letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Tzirelson to the Chief Rabbinate in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Kishinev, 1938. • Postcard with long letter of Torah thoughts by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Veg of Oyber Visheve [perished in the Holocaust], to Rabbi David Shperber Av Beit Din of Rachów. Văleni, 1935. • Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Avraham Aryeh Leib Rosen Av Beit Din of Fălticeni “and due to the war resides in Bucharest”. • Letter by Rabbi Chaim Rabinowitz Av Beit Din of Bucharest, Tel Aviv, 1951.
7 letters, varied size and condition.

Collection of letters of Torah novellae handwritten by Polish rabbis.
• Long letter (two large pages) of Torah thoughts handwritten and signed by Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak Yissachar HaLevi Leventhal. [He mentions his father, who died that year]. Brisk (Poland) Tishrei 1918. Rabbi Baruch Yitzchak Yissachar Leventhal (1875-1944) Av Beit Din of Brisk (village near Włocławek) and Pułtusk, son of Rabbi Efraim Shraga Av Beit Din of Uniejow, Kalisch district, Poland] author of Chemdat Efraim, son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Krishik Av Beit Din of Neustadt-Plonsk. Survived the Holocaust and ascended to Jerusalem. Some of his books: Ateret Rosh and Zichron Yissachar on Mishnayot Zera'im and Moed.
• Long letter (3 pages), about the dispute over the position of shochet and bodek by a Alexander Chassid, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yisrael Nissan Kuperstock. Przysucha, Kislev 1900. Rabbi Yisrael Nissan Kuperstock (1858-1930) one of the elder Rabbis of Polish Chassidism, descended from the Rebbes of Alexander. Served in the Rabbinate for over 40 years in Przysucha, Ryazan and Makó. In 1925, he ascended to Jerusalem, where he published his book Ani Ben Pachma responsa and established the Alexander Yismach Yisrael Yeshiva.
• Long handwritten letter (4 pages, middle of the letter, lacking the end), responsa on various Torah topics. Written on official stationery of Rabbi "Shmuel Yehuda Leib Weingot, Av Beit Din of Kowal, Warsaw district". Kowal, 1910s.
• Letter in the name of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel, handwritten and signed by his grandson Rabbi "Moshe Menachem Yosef ben Rabbi Gavriel HaLevi Ra'avad here, grandson of …Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Av Beit Din here". Lodz, 1910.
4 letters, approximately 10 handwritten pages, varied size and condition.

Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yosef Av Beit Din of Slonim, to Rabbi Shmuel Salant concerning inheritance money of a Jew who died in Jerusalem, sent by Rabbi Shmuel Salant to divide among his heirs abroad. Slonim, 1889.
Rabbi Yosef Shlopfer (died in 1905, Otzar HaRabbanim 8660), "the Dinaburg genius" student of Volozhin Yeshiva. Son-in-law of the renowned Rabbi Itzele Charif (Yehoshua Isaac Shapira), Av Beit Din of Slonim. He is the subject of the famous story: Rabbi Itzele chose him as a son-in-law because he ran after the wagon traveling from the Volozhin Yeshiva to ask Rabbi Itzele the answer to his question.
He served as Rabbi of Dretchin and in 1885 succeeded his father-in-law as Rabbi of Slonim until his death in 1905. Rabbi Mordechai Ushminer succeeded him as Rabbi of Slonim.
Leaf, 22 cm. 12 handwritten lines. Good condition.

Memorandum sent from the Va'ad HaYeshivot to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, concerning the importance of Torah study in Lithuanian yeshivot consolidated into Va'ad HaYeshivot, signed by the head of the Va'ad, Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky, Vilna, Cheshvan 1938.
Four page detailed letter, in Yiddish, titled at the top of each page: "To the honored members of the directorate of the Joint". On Page 4 is the stamp of the management of the Va'ad HaYeshivot in Vilna and the signature of Rabbi Chaim Ozer.
The content: Torah knowledge and mitzvah adherence is the basis for the existence of the Jewish people. At all times and in all generations, there were always individuals who studied Torah all the day and invested all their strength into their studies. And so the Torah was transmitted from generation to generation. The Jewish people accepted the obligation to grant these men this privilege and supported Torah learners so that they could study without the yoke of dealing with material needs. Large centers of learners were educated by Torah leaders for knowledge and comprehension of the Torah. These centers are called yeshivot. In the previous generation, most of the yeshivot were concentrated in the vicinity of Lithuania, the eastern region of the Polish Republic. These yeshivot produced leading rabbis and spiritual leaders of the Jewish people. The character of rabbis all over Russia, and most of the rabbis who reached the USA, Africa, Australia and throughout Europe were fashioned in these yeshivot.
Further in the memorandum is an interesting description and analysis of the situation after World War I and the task of the rabbis who studied in yeshivot to reinforce Jewish settlements all over the world. Descriptions of the existential difficulties of the yeshivot and of Torah learners. Establishment of Va'ad HaYeshivot in 1924, and a report on the Va'ad operations in granting a certain part of the Yeshiva budget.
4 leaves, official stationery, 29 cm. High-quality bluish paper. Very-good condition, folds and minor creases.

Letter by Rabbi Baruch Dov Leibowitz, head of the Kamenitz Yeshiva, to Rabbi Yisrael Porat, a rabbi in Cleveland. Kamenitz, [1930s].
Typewritten letter, with a request for the Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva in Kamenitz. At the end of the letter, the head of the yeshiva adds two and one half lines in his handwriting and with his signature: "Who blesses you with a Ketiva V'Chatima Tova Baruch Dov Leibowitz. G-d should write you and sign you immediately for a good sweet happy blessed life with all the blessings for a year of redemption and salvation, Amen"
Rabbi Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1940), one of the leading disciples of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin Yeshiva, succeeded his father in law, Rabbi Zimmerman in the Halusk rabbinate and established a yeshiva there. After 13 years, he was asked to serve as head of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva in Slobodka which eventually moved to Vilna and Kamenitz. He was one of the leading Torah teachers of his generation. He wrote Birkat Shmuel on Talmudical treatises – his Torah teachings are one of the basic cornerstones of in-depth Torah study.
Official stationery (with the picture of Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spector, after whom the yeshiva is named). 29 cm. Fair condition, wear and tear to margins and to folds.