"Maot Chodesh Iyar [coins for the month of Iyar] 1950" – Kvitel [small handwritten note] listing the names of the people who contributed to the maintenance of the home of the Admor. For blessing and prayer, “for physical health and other desirable blessings, including abundant sustenance and success in all endeavors and for salvation together with all of the Jewish people”. Signed in the handwriting of the holy Admor Rabbi Ya'akov from Husiatyn “Ya'akov son of Rabbi Yitzchak”.
Rabbi Ya'akov Friedman author of "Ohalei Ya'akov" (1879-1957, Encyclopedia of Hassid-ism, B, pages 244-246), was the son of the Admor Rabbi Yitzchak from Bohosh and son in law of Rabbi Yisrael from Husiatyn. He immigrated to Israel in the year 1939 and resided in Tel Aviv where he founded his father in law’s great Beit Midrash. In the year 1949 he was coroneted as the leader of the Husiatyn Hassidic sect.
22.5 cm. Very good condition.