Letter on postcard, handwritten and signed by Rebbe "Yitzchak Zelig of Kotzk". Sokołów (Poland), 1914.

Sent to R. Aharon Mendel HaKohen, rabbi of the Ashkenazic community, who at the time was working to establish an international rabbinic organization, and to reinstate Semichah ordination and the Sanhedrin in Eretz Israel. R. Aharon HaKohen asked the Rebbe about this, and the Rebbe answers that he did not want to be involved in reinstating Semichah for an undisclosed reason. He cautions him to ask all rabbis in every city, and to consider what is liable to result from reinstating Semichah in the future.

Rebbe Yitzchak Zelig Morgenstern (1865-1940), a foremost rebbe and rabbi of Poland and leader of European Orthodox Jewry. A grandson of R. Mendele of Kotzk and son of the Rebbe of Pulav (Puławy). He served as Rabbi of Sokołów since 1899. One of the founders of the Rabbinical Association of Poland and its vice president, a founder of Agudat Yisrael and representative of the Gerrer Rebbe in the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah. From 1904, he served as Rebbe in Sokołów and Otwock, establishing a yeshiva which he headed.

Postcard, 14 cm. Good-fair condition. Dampstains. Marginal tears to postcard, affecting text in one place. Filing hole.

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