A letter of recommendation handwritten and signed by Rabbi Avraham Zvi Kamai Av Beit Din of Mir, for giving "substantial provisions" for a needy Torah scholar. With the blessing that "those who support him will be blessed with all the blessings of those who support the Torah", Mir, 1929.
Rabbi Avraham Zvi Kamai (1860-1941), the last Rabbi of Mir. Son of the head of the yeshiva Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamai and his successor in the city rabbinate. Before World War I, he served in Keidan rabbinate. An outstanding Torah prodigy, proficient and astute in all areas of Torah study. Holy and elevated person.
He was murdered in the Holocaust together with 2300 Jews from his community, on November 9, 1941. A witness among the survivors recounted this event: “…At the time all the Nazis gathered all the Jewish inhabitants of the city in the marketplace and transported them to the pits they dug on the outskirts of the city, the rabbi spoke to all the Jews assembled by the murderers: Accept all this with love (of G-d), just like the Tana Rabbi Akiva who in the last moments of his life fulfilled the verse “Love G-d with all…your soul – even at the time he takes your soul”. (Ele Ezkera, Vol. 3, p. 41).
Leaf, 20 cm. 6 lines in his handwriting and with his signature. Dry paper, good-fair condition, paper restoration to margins.