Large collection of letters, manuscripts and documents, from the archive of Rabbi Yehosef Gedalya Ralbag and his family: · Letter of semicha to his father Rabbi Menachem Isaac Ralbag, signed by Jerusalem rabbis (Rabbi Menachem Natan Auerbach, Rabbi Shimshon Aharon Polansky, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Horwitz, etc.). · Travel certificates to the USA from 1925; a notary document, signed by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel (English). · Interesting letters by Rabbi Menachem Isaac Ralbag and his brother Rabbi Aryeh Leib Ralbag from the US, to their relative Rabbi Aryeh Levine in Jerusalem. · Letters from their uncle Rabbi Mordechai Ralbag from Jerusalem [1920s]. · Copies of letters and various lists related to their ancestor Rabbi Eliezer Dan Ralbag. · Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank. · Letter by Rabbi Chaim Hirshson. · Long letter by Rabbi Ya'akov Shapira, head of the Volozhin Yeshiva in Lithuania. · Printing plates (wood and metal) of letters by Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank and Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak HaLevi Reisman. · Letter by Rabbi Dov Sokolovsky. · More. · Sermon for bar-mitzvah, (5 leaves) on stationery of the Kashruth Association of Jamaica, [c. 1939]. · Many sermons and Torah thoughts. · Many letters by Rabbi Yehosef Gedalya Ralbag [some letters written to the Lubavitcher Rebbe and other Chabad rebbes]. · Letters from various communities in Eretz Israel and the Diaspora to Rabbi Ralbag. · Signed receipts, proclamations and copies of letters, various papers. Rabbi Yehosef Gedalya Ralbag (1927-1994) was born in the US, son of Rabbi Menachem Isaac Ralbag (grandson of the Ra'avad of Jerusalem, Rabbi Chaim Ya'akov Shapira), who traveled from Jerusalem to the US in 1925 as an emissary of the Eretz Israel Chief Rabbinate and served for decades as a rabbi in the US. In 1952, Rabbi Yehosef Gedalya married Rebbetzin Sima from the Slonim family in Jerusalem. He studied at the kollel of Rabbi Aryeh Levine, the “Jerusalem Tsaddik”. In 1961, he was appointed rabbi of the government hospitals and in 1970 Rabbi of the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood in Jerusalem. He served as chairman of the Chabad educational institutes in Jerusalem, was a prominent Chabad rabbi in Eretz Israel and one of the heads of the Chabad batei din in Israel. Approximately 70 items, more than 100 leaves, size and condition vary.