Selichot - Kodesh Hillulim, Lithuanian tradition. Jerusalem, 1969.
Copy of Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael Kanievsky - the Steipler.
Before the title page - two of his stamps: "Rabbi Ya'akov Yisrael Kanievsky - Bnei Brak, Shikun Chazon Ish".
350 pages. 19 cm. Good-fair condition. Many stains. Penned inscriptions. Old binding, slightly damaged.

An interesting letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi "Yosef Duber HaLevi Soloveitchik". [Jerusalem, 1951].
Sent to the Chazon Ish, notice of the birth of a son and requests for prayer and blessing. "It is my honor to inform you that a son was born to me and I hope his brit milah will take place on Monday the 6th of Adar. I request that you pray for the wellbeing of the child and the mother, and that I will merit performing the brit milah at the proper time and to raise him 'L'Torah l'chuppah ul'ma'asim tovim'". And you should please bless our son Avraham Yehoshua that we should merit raising and educating him to Torah and pure fear of Heaven".
Rabbi Yosef Dov (R' Yoshe Ber) HaLevi Soloveitchik (1916-1981), eldest son of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk. During the Holocaust years, he moved with his father to Jerusalem and assisted him in establishing the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem and eventually stood at its helm. He is considered one of the leading Torah scholars of the previous generation. Avraham Yehoshua mentioned in the letter is his eldest son, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua HaLevi Soloveitchik who is the head of the Brisk Yeshiva in Jerusalem today. The newborn son mentioned in the letter is Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik of Jerusalem, born on the 29th of Shevat 1951. Rabbi Yosef Dov had much contact with the Chazon Ish and would visit him at his home in Bnei Brak to discuss and consult him on halachic and private matters, besides the various times his father sent him to the Chazon Ish concerning public issues.
Leaf 23 cm. Fair condition. Dampstains on the ink.

Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Ya'akov Neiman, head of the Or Yisrael Yeshiva. Petach Tikva, 1943.
An interesting letter sent to the Chazon Ish with a question regarding two families that emigrated from Hungary to Petach Tikva and are delaying the shidduch of their adult sons due to their demand that the married women adhere to the Hungarian custom of shaving their heads, "…And I told them that it is forbidden to abandon a Torah mitzvah for a good custom… but they do not listen to me. Therefore, I have come to ask your opinion on this matter and whatever Your Honor says they will do…".
Rabbi Ya'akov Aryeh Neiman (ca. 1887-1983), was a prominent alumnus of the Lomza Yeshiva in Poland and a close disciple of the Chafetz Chaim who appointed him head of the Or Yisrael Yeshiva in Lida (which was founded by the Chafetz Chaim and by Rabbi Chaim Ozer). A few years after he immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1935, he established the Or Yisrael Yeshiva in Petach Tikva which he headed for over 40 years. Many of the heads of yeshivot in our days are his disciples or their disciples. He wrote Darkei Mussar and Pri Ya'akov and other books.
Leaf, 20 cm. Approximately 18 handwritten lines. Fair condition. Tears and dampstains.

Letters and "kvitlach" notes, sent to Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, author of the Chazon Ish. Including letters by rabbis and mussar figures: Rabbi Dov Ma'ayani Av Beit Din of Magdiel; Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe Mashgiach of the Be'er Ya'akov Yeshiva [with a request to assist a boy in coping with his family which oppose his continued yeshiva studies]; Rabbi Elimelech Shaulson [Bar-Shaul]; Rabbi Reuven Melamed; invitation to the wedding of Rabbi Lipa Dov Weintraub; etc.
On all the leaves are "kvitel" inscription of dozen of names in the handwriting of the Chazon Ish who wrote their names and the names of their mothers, to mention in his prayers for blessing, robust health and success. [One of the names is "Avraham Avigdor Nachum son of Rosa Beila", the Strikov Rebbe].
17 paper items, size and condition vary.

Long, interesting autograph letter signed by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, sent from Telz to Jerusalem in the course of World War II, to his uncle and mechutan Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin. Telz, [Shevat 1941].
At the peak of those horrific times, Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin [son of Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin] married his relative Rebbetzin Rachel, daughter of his cousin Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch [Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin and his uncle Rabbi Y.L. Bloch were both sons-in-law of the founder of the yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Gordon]. Immediately following their marriage, the couple embarked on the journey from war-torn Lithuania to the US via Siberia and Japan.
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch wrote to his uncle: "Our dear children have left Kovno on Wednesday and today I have received a telegram from the capital city [Moscow?] that they have arrived safely…we have decided that they should travel through the east because we have received notice that they have received immigration affidavits to enter the US…". Further in the letter he writes of various rescue efforts for attaining visas and travel permits for the yeshiva students and their families.
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch (1890-1941), Av Beit Din of Telz and head of the Telz Yeshiva. Third generation of deans of the Telz Yeshiva, second son of the author of Shi'urei Da'at, Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch, and grandson of Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, the yeshiva's founder. From his youth, he was renowned for his exceptional talent and in-depth study. In 1920, at the age of 30, he was appointed head lecturer and head of yeshiva [in the lifetime of his father], and after the death of his father in Cheshvan 1929, he was appointed head of yeshiva and his father's successor in the city rabbinate. After the Nazi conquest in the summer of 1941, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak was brutally murdered by the Nazis near Telz, together with hundreds of the yeshiva's students and their rabbi and with most of his family and community.
Some of his novellae were published in the book Chiddushei Rabbeinu R' A.Y. of Telz. In the introduction to the book, he is described as "a Torah teacher who merited fame in his own generation by his amazing discourses which displayed comprehension and depth of Torah knowledge".
Of all his children, only three daughters survived the Holocaust. One was Rebbetzin Rachel Sorotzkin, wife of Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin who was appointed to head the Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio in the US.
Official stationery, 2 written pages, 28.5 cm. Good-fair condition, wear, filing holes and small tears.