Archive of letters of semicha (ordination) and other letters, sent to Rabbi David Brodman, Rabbi of Savyon, and, formerly, rabbi and Dayan in Amsterdam. Letters of semicha to the rabbinate, by Rabbi David Povarsky, head of Ponovezh Yeshiva, Rabbi Aryeh Ze'ev Gurwicz head of Gateshead Yeshiva, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Shlomo Goren. The collection contains letters by famous rabbis: Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis, Rabbi Aryeh Ze'ev Gurvicz (2 letters), Rabbi Chanoch Dov Padova; Rabbi Shimon Schwab; Rabbi Eliezer Platchinsky; Rabbi Chaim Friedlander (3 letters); Rabbi Hillel Medalia of Antwerp (4 letters); Rabbi Ben Zion Rakov of London; Rabbi Yisrael Brody, Chief Rabbi of Lucerne (4 letters); Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; Rabbi Moshe Zvi Neria [in which he disapproves of the ways of the head of the Bnei Akiva movement]; Rabbi Shmuel David Munk (2 letters); Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe Aharonson; Rabbi Binyamin Yehoshua Zilber; an authorization of a conversion performed at the Savyon Beit Din [with signatures of Rabbi David Brodman, Rabbi Amram ben R' S.Y. Blau – head of the Neturei Karta and Rabbi Nachum Yitzchak Frank]; many more letters from rabbis from the Netherlands, Europe and Eretz Israel. Rabbi Brodman, born in Rotterdam, Holland survived the concentration camps and later studied at the Gateshead and Ponovezh Yeshivot. He served as rabbi and Dayan in Amsterdam for 10 years. In 1973, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and was appointed Chief Rabbi of Savyon, there he established Torah institutes and a kollel. More than 60 letters, size and condition vary. Most letters are in very good condition.