Interesting letter of recommendation, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Zak, Av Beit Din of Riga (capital of Latvia). For the Ga'avad of Tel Aviv, emissary for schools of the Charedi education system in Eretz Israel. Shevat 1931.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Zak (1871-1943), Rabbi in Kandava, Jelgava (Mitau) and Riga, served as General Rabbi of Latvia. The Or Sameach left the manuscript of his well-known work Meshech Chochma on the Torah with Rabbi Zak who later published the book (Riga, 1827).
25.5 cm. 14 handwritten lines. Brittle paper, good-fair condition, file holes and minor tear to leaf fold.