Long letter of responsum on the laws of Shemot Gittin, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky. London, Adar 1939. Sent to Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, who served at that time as Av Beit Din of Liverpool (England). Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky (1886-1976), Ga'avad of London, disciple of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk, a leading rabbi in his days in Russia, Great Britain and Jerusalem. He authored the twenty five volumes of Chazon Yechezkel on the Tosefta, and more. Several books and memoirs have been written about him. Official stationery of the London Beit Din, 20.5 cm. [2] written pages. 43 handwritten lines. Very good condition.

Large archive of letters on various matters and responsa of Torah teachings by rabbis and Torah scholars, sent to Rabbi Yisrael Porat in Cleveland, Ohio. Most of the letters, spanning some fifty years, beginning in 1920, are by US rabbis and some are from Europe and Eretz Israel. Among the letters are those from Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak HaCohen Bloch, Av Beit Din of Bauska and Jersey City, Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin, Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Katz, Telz-Cleveland, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Greenwald, Columbus, Ohio; Rabbi Yosef HaLevi Zweig, Rabbi Mordechai HaLevi Landau, Cleveland, Rabbi Moshe Ze'ev Cohen, Chicago, Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib HaLevi Livyatan, Rabbi Elazar David Friedman, Rabbi Binyamin Yehoshua Zilber, Rabbi Yoel Ashkenzi, Rabbi Asher Shmuel Katz, the Pryshyb Rebbe Montevideo, Rabbi Yehuda Geffen, Kiryat Ata, Rabbi Shlomo Tenvitsky (Tene), Be'er Sheva, Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman and Rabbi Ben Zion Chai Uziel, Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira, Be'er Ya'akov, and other letters by many rabbis. Rabbi Yisrael Porat (1886-1974) was born in Jerusalem. In 1904 he established the Beit Va'ad LaChachamim in Jerusalem and was an activist on behalf of the Ashkenazi community in their contact with the government (he was supposed to have been appointed Chacham Bashi of the Ashkenazim). In 1923, he arrived in the US and served in the rabbinate of various communities. From 1926 he served in the Cleveland rabbinate, a position he held for decades. He authored the series Mevo HaTalmud. A great part of the letters are Torah comments and letters confirming the receipt of his books Mevo HaTalmud. 159 letters, approximately 170 leaves. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.

Collection of bank-checks sent from the Ezrat Torah Organization in the US to Torah institutes and rabbis in Eretz Israel and abroad, from 1946-1968. The checks are signed by the Ezrat Torah rabbis, Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henken, Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Bloch and Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Rif. Some checks are endorsed by rabbis on the back (some in English): Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik (of Jerusalem), Rabbi David Soloveitchik, Rabbi David Jungreiss, Rabbi Avraham Dov Auerbach, Rabbi Avraham Yaffen (the check was sent "for expenses incurred by printing the book Madregat HaAdam), Rabbi Dov Sokolevsky, etc. The checks were sent to Rebbe Mordechai Shalom Yosef Freidman of Sadigura, to Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Twersky, apparently the Rebbe of Makhnovka, a check to "Rebbetzin Twersky", to "Rebbe S. L. Halberstam", to "Rebbe B. Rokeach, etc. One check was sent to Kollel Chazon Ish in Bnei Brak, with the inscription: "For R' Y. Kanievsky…". 25 checks. 22X8 cm. Overall good condition. · Enclosed: a letter from the Metivta Raba Chafetz Chaim, to "the honored woman…Ms. Pesya Miller Feigen in the city of Philadelphia". Radin, 1937. Yiddish. Signed by the yeshiva deans: Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Levinson (grandson of the Chafetz Chaim) and Rabbi Eliezer Ze'ev Kaplan.

Printed calendar for the year 1964-1965, in which the famous Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri from Jerusalem handwrote the names of people who seeked his counsel and blessing, the matters that brought them to him, Kabbalistic tikunim, gematriot, Ktav Setarim (cryptographs), and amulets. On the cover is an inscription in Rabbi Kaduri's handwriting: "My Israel ID is no. 32790", "Telephone no. of David is 247766". This calendar has more than 450 entries including about 1000 names [!] in need of prayer, segulot and amulets for various issues: Education and shidduchim, infertility and marital harmony, physical and mental illness, business matters (real estate and international trade), conflicts between neighbors, etc. The eldest Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri was born at the end of the 19th Century in Iraq, studied Torah and Kabbalah from Babylonian (Iraq) and Jerusalem sages. He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1922 and initially made a living by binding books and manuscripts, while studying in the Beit El and Porat Yosef Yeshivot. Eventually, the word of his Kabbalistic wisdom spread and many sought his counsel, blessings and amulets [he was one of the few who still knew the wisdom of Kabbalistic amulets]. Notebook, approximately 11.5 cm. About 175 written pages. Good condition, minor dampstaining. Original plastic binding.