Compilation of letters and documents, letters sent to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, printed letters (without signatures) and proclamations by Rabbi Shmuel Salant, etc. Among the letters: An interesting letter from Rabbi Yechiel Brill editor of HaLevanon about etrogim grown in Eretz Israel and in Corfu. Mainz, 1877. · Envelope of a letter sent to Rabbi Shmuel with the handwriting of Rabbi Chaim Berlin, two gematriot of 1909, one with the name and the other with the title of Rabbi Shmuel Salant. · Handwritten leaf "Open letter from Zion and Jerusalem" and a printed proclamation "True speech will last forever" – reactions and responses to slander printed in the Abendblatt newspaper published in NY, reporting that Rabbi Shmuel Salant was not healthy and was, in fact, following the whims of the secretary of the Va'ad HaKlali, Rabbi Yosef Rivlin. Adar 1896. · Letters from 1895 about slander and disparagement of community institutes in Jerusalem, printed in the HaZvi newspaper of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. · More. 14 items, size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Rabbi Shmuel Salant's letters were usually written by his team of scribes and secretaries and signed with his signature or stamp. Some of the letters (unsigned) in this collection probably originated in the archive of Rabbi Shmuel Salant.

Varied collection of letters and documents, public and private letters. Jerusalem and Eretz Israel, 1860-1920. · Letter from Rabbi Akiva Lehren to Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer. Amsterdam 1871. · Various letter sent from Jerusalem to Amsterdam, to the management of the Pekidei V'Amarkelei Eretz Israel (officials). · Letters sent to Rabbi Shmuel Salant and to the Va'ad HaKlali. · Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Baharan, [founder of the Meah She'arim neighborhood]. · Printed proclamation against Rebbetzin Diskin. · Notebook of a Gemilut Chesed society, from 1894. · Letter concerning the murder of a few of the Po’alei Zion society, with 16 signatures. Among the signatures: Rabbi Ya’akov Moshe Charlap; Rabbi Shlomo Zalman HaCohen Kook [father of the Ra’aya]; Rabbi David Baharan; etc. · Various documents from Jerusalem signed by rabbis and famous public figures [for more details, please see Hebrew description]. · Etc. Approx. 36 items, size and condition vary.

Handwritten leaves, letter and Torah novellae in the handwriting of Rabbi Zevulun Charlap, member of the Beit Din of the Maharil Diskin. [Jerusalem, c. 1894]. · Letter in the handwriting of Rabbi Zevulun Charlap, on printed stationery (in golden ink) of the "Committee of Kollel Suwałki and Lomza", signed by Rabbi "Zevulun Charlap" and with signatures of Rabbi "Shachne ----?" and Rabbi "Binyamin Beinush Tikochinsky". The content of the letter is an interesting responsum in the name of the Maharil Diskin regarding segulot: "Concerning the ill person…written to the renowned…Rabbi Yehoshua Leib, to pray and beseech for his complete recovery…He has prayed at the Western Wall… G-d should send him help…Concerning the segula…he responded that this segula is brought in the book Pitchei Teshuva Yoreh Deah Siman 372, in the name of a responsum of the Chatam Sofer…and the Gaon (Maharil) said that he has researched it and here we also are accustomed to using this segula…". The segula discussed in the letter is the ancient practice of placing the hand of the ill person in the hand of a dead person before his burial to transfer the decree from the live to the dead. On the verso: two pages of additional Torah novellae in the handwriting of Rabbi Zevulun. · Long responsum (3 large pages, in the handwriting of Rabbi Zevulun, unsigned) on the laws of hefker and on the laws of a gift from a "shechiv mera" (a person on his deathbed). Rabbi Zevulun Charlap (1841-1898) was born in Vawkavysk in Poland and in 1851, he ascended to Jerusalem with his parents. He studied in the HaRan Yeshiva of Rabbi Nachum of Szadek and was a disciple of Rabbi Meir Auerbach, author of the Imrei Binah. He was appointed court scribe and later dayan in Beit Din of the Maharil Diskin in Jerusalem, and he signed many approbations and rulings. He was appointee and manager of Kollel Suwałki and Lomza and of the Va’ad HaKlali. Among his books: Me’orei Chaim on Mishlei (Jerusalem, 1891) and Yesod HaMa’alah on Shevi’it and Ma’asrot (printed at the end of Beit Zvil, Vol. 2, Jerusalem, 1948). His famous son is the Kabbalist Rabbi Ya’akov Moshe Charlap, Rabbi of Sha’arei Chesed and head of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva, author of Beit Zvul and Mei Marom. [6] written pages, size and condition vary. Wear and tears.

Interesting letter, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yechiel Heller, author of Amudei Or. Konigsberg, 1857. Sent to Jerusalem to Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Heller tells of his book Amudei Or, printed in Konigsberg that year and about his poor state of health which lengthened his stay in Konigsberg. "…It has been a few months since G-d has given me the merit to print here my book of responsa Amudei Or. I have written to our friend the Ga'avad here to send Your Honor four copies, one for yourself and one for the Chacham of the Sephardim, one for the Beit Midrash of the Ashkenazim and one for the Beit Midrash of the Sephardim… when you have time can you be so kind as to look into my composition and if there is an error, please do me the kindness of informing me…". Rabbi Yechiel Heller (1814-1862) was already known in his youth as one of the leading Torah scholars of his days. Born in Koidanov, he studied in yeshivot in Minsk and was renowned as the "Ilui of Koidanov". At the age of 21, he was appointed Rabbi in Hlusk and in 1843 as Rabbi of Vawkavysk, succeeding Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Chaver. In 1854, he began serving in the Suwałki rabbinate and at that time printed his commentary on the Passover Haggadah and his famed book of response, Amudei Or, in Konigsberg. As soon as the book was published, his deep and clear novellae became famous, his thoughts were quoted in books written by the leading scholars of his times and he joined the top rank of Torah luminaries of his days, an outstanding prodigy erudite in all facets of Torah knowledge. In 1858, he moved to serve in the Plungė rabbinate for four years until his untimely death at the age of 47. He used to sign "HeAluv" (the miserable one) and many stories are told of this name. In the book Gedolei HaDorot (Part 2, p. 633), a tradition is brought in the name of Rabbi Shach, that Rabbi Heller adopted the nickname after he once needed to free an agunah by means of “Mi’un”, and since according to the Rama, we do not institute “Mi’un” today and although this case was urgent, he began to sign HeAluv. Another story explaining this unusual signature, as told by some people in the name of Rabbi Y. Kamenetsky, is that his mother Rivka was the daughter of a wealthy famous Torah scholar from a highly respected important family. In her youth, she was slandered and slurred, forcing her to marry a simple person. On the day of her wedding, she retreated to a side room and beseeched Heaven: “…You know that I aspired to build my home with a man who is a great Torah scholar but malicious rumors which have not an iota of truth have brought me to this state. Please! If I did not merit a husband who is a Torah scholar, bless me with sons who are great Torah scholars and help me fulfill my life’s dearest wish”. Indeed, the couple had seven sons and four daughters, breeding families of Torah scholars. Four of them were especially celebrated: Rabbi Yisrael Heller, author of Nachlat Yisrael, a head of the Mir and Minsk yeshivot and later Av Beit Din of Koidanov; Rabbi Meir Heller, a dayan in Vilna; Rabbi Yechiel Heller, author of Amudei Or and Rabbi Yehoshua Heller, Av Beit Din of Telz, author of Chosen Yehoshua. Leaf, 23 cm. Approximately 20 handwritten lines. Bluish, thin stationery, good condition, wear and folding marks. This letter has been printed in the book Torat Rabbeinu Shmuel M’Salant, Part 1 p. 283; in the Or HaTorah anthology, Issue 1, Siman 11; and in the Yeshurun compilation, Issue 4, p. 673.

Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi "Chanoch Zundel ben R' Ya'akov, Av Beit Din of Pułtusk". Pułtusk, Poland, 1884. Sent to Jerusalem to Rabbi Shmuel Salant. The letter is about the arrangement of a get for an agunah from Pułtusk whose husband moved to Jerusalem and abandoned Judaism. Rabbi Chanoch Zundel Yaffe-Grodzinski, Av Beit Din of Pułtusk and of Serock (1819-1891, Otzar HaRabbanim 6669), disciple of Lithuanian Torah scholars Rabbi Eliyahu Rogoler [while in Slobodka], Rabbi Leib Shapira, Av Beit Din of Kovno and Rabbi Yehuda Bachrach, author of Nimukei Hagriv. Son of Rabbi Ya’akov, Av Beit Din of Liudvinavas, author of Gufei Halachot (Warsaw, 1822) and brother of Rabbi Mordechai Zvi Grodzinski of Kalvarija. From 1847, he served in the rabbinates of Brats’ke, Serock, Zambrów and Vyshkove. From 1872, he served as Av Beit Din of Pułtusk. In the book Nefesh Chaya his signature in among the rabbis who signed on behalf of etrogim from Eretz Israel. His letter about his family genealogy was printed in the Megillat HaYachas in the book Zecher Yehosef, p. 210. Leaf, 21 cm. Good condition, folding marks.