Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Letter by Rebbe Mordechai Yosef of Zlatopol (Skvira)
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Letter from Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Twersky of Zlatopol.[After 1911].
In the letter the Rebbe asks to help in the printing of a second edition of the Chasidic-Kabbalic book "Yesod HaDa'at", first edition of which was published in Warsaw 1912. [This book aroused a polemic due to its expressions against the misnagdim – see Bibliography Institute CD, listing 0108423].
Rebbe Mordechai Yosef of Zlatopol (1862-1928, Encyclopedia of the Chasidut III, page 147-148), son of Rebbe David Twersky of Zlatopol and son-in-law of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshil of Skvira. (One of the founders of the Skvira Chasidut of our days). His son Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky is the son-in-law of his brother-in-law Rabbi Moshe Dan of Skvira. One of his sons in law is Rebbe Avraham Elimelech of Karlin.
17.5 cm. 12 handwritten lines and signature. Ink-stamp. Fair condition, worn and torn folds. Enforced with tape on the back.
Photocopy of this letter appears in the book "HaChasidut MiDor LeDor" by I. Alfassi.
In the letter the Rebbe asks to help in the printing of a second edition of the Chasidic-Kabbalic book "Yesod HaDa'at", first edition of which was published in Warsaw 1912. [This book aroused a polemic due to its expressions against the misnagdim – see Bibliography Institute CD, listing 0108423].
Rebbe Mordechai Yosef of Zlatopol (1862-1928, Encyclopedia of the Chasidut III, page 147-148), son of Rebbe David Twersky of Zlatopol and son-in-law of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshil of Skvira. (One of the founders of the Skvira Chasidut of our days). His son Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky is the son-in-law of his brother-in-law Rabbi Moshe Dan of Skvira. One of his sons in law is Rebbe Avraham Elimelech of Karlin.
17.5 cm. 12 handwritten lines and signature. Ink-stamp. Fair condition, worn and torn folds. Enforced with tape on the back.
Photocopy of this letter appears in the book "HaChasidut MiDor LeDor" by I. Alfassi.
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