Letter signed by R. Yitzchak Hutner, dean of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in the United States. [Brooklyn?], Tevet 1972.

Typewritten with his signature. Addressed to R. Yechezkel Abramsky, the Chazon Yechezkel, in Jerusalem. Apologizing for leaving Jerusalem without a farewell, R. Huntner writes of his hope that the lack of a farewell signifies a speedy return to Jerusalem, and at any rate asks for R. Yechezkel's parting blessing from a distance.

R. Yitzchak Hutner (1906-1980), and as one of the heads of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah in the United States. studied in his youth in the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania and in Hebron. In 1932, he published Torat HaNazir, which amazed the Torah world with the original scholarly depth produced by such a young man. Two weeks after his marriage, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in the Rehavia neighborhood of Jerusalem, where he resided for one year. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he served as dean of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in New York for many years. He was renowned for his thought-provoking halachic lectures and for his intellectual discourses on character traits and duties of the heart, delivered to a few select individuals, and later published in the Pachad Yitzchak series.

1 leaf, official stationery. 28 cm. Good condition. Stains and folding marks.

Not published in Pachad Yitzchak – Igrot Uketavim.

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