Letter by Rebbe Yerachmiel Yehuda Meir of Amshinov. Brooklyn, Aseret Yemei Teshuva 1949.
21 lines in his own handwriting and with his signature: “Yr.Y. Meir Kalish”. In this letter, Rebbe Meir'l sends a humble friendly apology to his relative who reproached him for a matter "with open reproof and hidden love". If you read the letter carefully, you can discern the Rebbe's aristocratic manner. He writes of a copy which he is sending of "Holy essays written by my dear son who copied the writings of the Rebbe, an essay integrated with the words of your grandfather…". He asks about his relatives and blesses him and all "Our beloved dear illustrious friends with good life…happy and well…Gmar Chatima Tova and all good to you and your family, and a happy joyful festival".
Rebbe Yerachmiel Yehuda Meir Kalish, R' Meir'l of Amshinov (1901-1976), son of Rabbi Shimon Shalom of Amshinov (1883-1954), miraculously survived the Holocaust by escaping to Vilna and from there to Shanghai in the Far East. After the Holocaust, they immigrated to Eretz Israel and moved to Jerusalem and established the Amshinov Shem Olam Yeshiva in 1954. He possessed a great love for the Jewish people, and unpretentiously and wholeheartedly served G-d. His daughter's son is Rebbe Ya’akov Milikowsky, the present Amshinov Rebbe.
22.5 cm. Good-fair condition, stains and folding marks.