Collection of letters and papers from the archive of R. Leib Broide who was the assistant of the Chafetz Chaim in Radun. [1930s]. (On some of the postcards, the address of the sender is written above the address and name of R. Yisrael Meir HaCohen author of the Chafetz Chaim).
· Postcard with letters of good wishes sent to Radun on the occasion of R. Broide's wedding in Tevet 1931-1932. Including an autograph letter signed by R. Elchanan Wasserman. · Autograph letter signed by R. Yechiel Michel Rabinowitz Rabbi of Szczuczyn [author of Afikei Yam], with the addition of an autograph letter signed by his son R. Yitzchak Rabinowitz [rabbi in Szczuczyn]. Mentioned in the letter is the great privilege of serving the Chafetz Chaim. · Autograph letter signed by R. "Ya'akov Movshowitz" Rabbi of Berestovets. · Autograph letter signed by R. Chaim Shimon Top, a rabbi from Vilna.
· Autograph letter signed by the grandson of the Chafetz Chaim R. Eliezer Ze'ev Kaplan, manager of the Radun Yeshiva. Elul 1932. · Letter in Yiddish from his brother-in-law. [Radun, 1940]. · Letter from R. Yerachmiel [---?], "Committee of the Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva" in the US. 1939. · Prozbul signed by R. Amran Aburvia. Petach Tikva, 1959. · Typewritten leaf, regulations for the Radun Yeshiva students [apparently, by the Chafetz Chaim] on the topics of Torah study, guarding speech, renouncing general studies and prohibitions for reading secular literature and newspapers [with the exception of Charedi newspapers "such as the Tegblatt in Warsaw and the Dos Vort in Vilna"], more rules for the yeshiva management.
R. Aryeh Leib Broide of Vilna-Petach Tikva (1899-1987) was the faithful assistant of the Chafetz Chaim in his senior years. In his youth, he became close to the Chafetz Chaim eventually becoming his close assistant taking care of all the needs of his illustrious mentor. In 1930, the Chafetz Chaim traveled to Warsaw to meet the Polish president and requested that R. Leib accompany him on his journey. The picture of the Chafetz Chaim from this journey sitting in the station with R. Leib standing at his side is well-known. [In that picture, the Chafetz Chaim is wrapped in a winter coat which he borrowed from R. Leib, who is standing next to him wearing only his jacket]. The Chafetz Chaim made R. Leib's match with the daughter of R. Goldberg of Radun. [Recounted in the book Meir Ene Yisrael, Vol. 2, that when he became of marriageable age, the Chafetz Chaim sent him to the home of the Goldberg family and requested that he inform them in his name that in the opinion of the Chafetz Chaim, he is the groom who is suitable for their daughter]. The Chafetz Chaim sent R. Leib to study shecita and nikur and gave him semicha as a shochet and bodek [the only letter of semicha ever written by the Chafetz Chaim. This letter was lost to R. Leib after many years, at the time his bag was stolen while traveling]. In the last days of the Chafetz Chaim's lifetime, he directed his disciple R. Leib to immigrate to Eretz Israel, alluding to revelations he received from Heaven regarding the impending Holocaust hanging over European Jewry; and indeed, in 1934 R. Leib and his wife immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Petach Tikva.
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