Auction 37 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Letter from Rabbi Moshe Aryeh HaLevi, Av Beit Din of Yanov – Wrote an Approbation on the Chafetz Chaim
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A letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi "Moshe Aryeh HaLevi". To Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Yanov, 1855.
The letter is about his son Rabbi Shmuel Zvi, Av Beit Din of Wiżajny, who traveled to America as an emissary of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Berlin (the Netziv), for the Volozhin Yeshiva. Rabbi Eliyahu of Kretinga requested his assistance in collecting funds for Eretz Israel.
Rabbi Moshe Aryeh HaLevi, Rabbi of Eishishok, Ponovezh and Yanov (Kovna district). In 1872, he was one of the five great rabbis that gave their approbation of the first edition of the book Chafetz Chaim at the time the author was yet anonymous. In the approbation he writes about the Chafetz Chaim: "My soul-friend the Great Rabbi G-d Fearing… and as I know this Rabbi and his ways that he did not write this book for money or honor, his only intent was for the sake of Heaven". Died c. 1892.
20.5 cm. 11 handwritten lines. Good condition.
The letter is about his son Rabbi Shmuel Zvi, Av Beit Din of Wiżajny, who traveled to America as an emissary of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Berlin (the Netziv), for the Volozhin Yeshiva. Rabbi Eliyahu of Kretinga requested his assistance in collecting funds for Eretz Israel.
Rabbi Moshe Aryeh HaLevi, Rabbi of Eishishok, Ponovezh and Yanov (Kovna district). In 1872, he was one of the five great rabbis that gave their approbation of the first edition of the book Chafetz Chaim at the time the author was yet anonymous. In the approbation he writes about the Chafetz Chaim: "My soul-friend the Great Rabbi G-d Fearing… and as I know this Rabbi and his ways that he did not write this book for money or honor, his only intent was for the sake of Heaven". Died c. 1892.
20.5 cm. 11 handwritten lines. Good condition.
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