Auction 050 Part 2 Special Chabad Auction in Honor of Chag HaGeulah Yud-Tes Kislev – Rosh Hashana of Chassidut – Marking the Date in which Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi was Released from Czarist Imprisonment
Collection of Letters to the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch – 1920s-1930s
Four letters sent to Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, ca. 1920s-1930s.
1. Letter handwritten and signed by R. Moshe Shlomo Kahana Shapiro. Jerusalem: 24 Tamuz, 1928.
Sent to the Rebbe Rayatz during his residence in Riga, asking the Rebbe to care for his son-in-law, the emissary R. Azriel Zelig Slonim, who was always traveling.
2. Lengthy letter (4 pages) handwritten and signed by the Mashpia R. Shaul Dov Ber Zislin, rabbi of the Chabad community in Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv, [1936].
Lengthy and detailed description of the Chag HaGeulah gatherings on 19 Kislev, 1936 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, including locations, preparations, participants, meals, tunes, dances, homilies, talks and much more. (Part of the content of this letter has been printed in HaTamim, V, Warsaw, 1937.)
3. Lengthy letter (5 typewritten pages) by the Jerusalem community activist R. David Weingarten. [Jerusalem, 9 Elul], 1939.
In his letter, R. Weingarten asks the Rebbe Rayatz to work to get a position in the Torat Emet yeshiva for his granddaughter's son-in-law R. Eliyahu David Havlin (son of R. Shlomo Zalman Havlin and son-in-law of R. Yechezkel Shraga Hirschman of Jerusalem). R. Weingarten details the events related to the matter; describes the conflict with the eldest brother, R. Chanoch Hendel Havlin, dean of the Torat Emet yeshiva; and reminds the Rebbe Rayatz of his promise to take care of the orphans of R. Shlomo Zalman Havlin. At the beginning of the letter R. Weingarten recalls his meeting with the Rebbe Rayatz during his visit to Eretz Israel in 1929. [On R. David Weingarten, see "The Man of Kindness in Jerusalem – the Life of the Father of Orphans R. David Weingarten" (Jerusalem, 1979; Hebrew).]
4. Draft of a handwritten letter (4 pages), unsigned. [Jerusalem, ca. 1938.]
Lengthy, detailed description of the dispute with the Torat Emet yeshiva administration on the ownership of property and estates. Probably written by R. Eliyahu David Havlin (son of R. Shlomo Zalman Havlin dean of the Torat Emet yeshiva. Over the course of the letter there are mentions of the directors of Kollel Chabad in Jerusalem, R. Azriel Zelig Slonim, R. Shlomo Yehudah Leib Eliezerov and R. Yitzchak Naeh.
[4] letters. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition.