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Shanah Tovah Letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe – Elul 1959

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Shanah Tovah letter from Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Brooklyn, New York, Elul 1959.
Typewritten on the Rebbe's official stationery, with his signature: "M.Schneersohn"; with words added in his handwriting.


Sent to R. Nachman Pinchas Yarblum in Jerusalem (a student in the Torat Emet yeshiva in Jerusalem and director of the Torah Or school of the Lubavitch Youth Organization in Ein Kerem): "Approaching the new year… I hereby offer my blessing to you and yours, a blessing of Ketivah VaChatimah Tovah for a good and sweet new year, physically and spiritually". At the beginning of the letter the Rebbe added by hand: "His letter has been received".


[1] leaf. 21.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks.

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