Auction 98 Early Printed Books, Chassidut and Kabbalah, Books Printed in Jerusalem, Letters and Manuscripts, Jewish Ceremonial Art

Letter from Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov – "May God Bless You with Long Days and Years of Life, Peace and Bountiful Blessing and Success"

Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium

Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov. Brooklyn, New York, "Thursday, Shlach" [Sivan], 1978.


Scribal writing, with signature of the Rebbe: "Shlomo Halberstam".
Sent to R. Avraham Lauterman, who had sent money for a wedding [in the Rebbe's family]. The Rebbe thanks him and blesses him: "Due to this, may God bless you with long days and years of life, peace and bountiful blessing and success in all your affairs, and may you be blessed from the house of blessings sated with satisfaction, and my heart too will rejoice…".
Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov (1907-2000), the Divrei Shlomo, prominent rebbe in recent times. Son of Rebbe Bentzion Halberstam, the Kedushat Tzion (son of the first Rebbe of Bobov, Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam, grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz). In 1931, his father moved from Bobov to Trzebinia, and appointed him as rabbi in his place in Bobov.

Rebbe Shlomo assisted his father in directing the dozens of branches of the large network of yeshivas "Etz Chaim – Bobov" in Galicia. After the Holocaust, he reached the United States where he re-established the Bobov Chassidut, founding communities, yeshivas and Torah institutions in the United States and worldwide.


[1] leaf, official stationery. 28 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains and folding marks. Tears to folds.


PLEASE NOTE: Some lot descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to the Hebrew text.

Chassidut – Letters and Manuscripts
Chassidut – Letters and Manuscripts