The letter shows his concern for the health of his relative, Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Skolsky.
[England] Cir. 1930’s.
17.5 Cm
The Gaon & Tzadik Rabbi Eliyohu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953), was a descendant of Rabbi Yisroel Lipkin (Salanter) and a great Ba’al Mussar. He immigrated to London in 1927, where he served as Rav in Dalston and taught small groups of outstanding talmidim. He later founded Gateshead Kollel. Towards the end of his life he moved to Eretz Yisroel, where he served as Mashgiach in the Ponevezh Yeshiva. His seforim “Michtav M’Eliyohu”, published by his talmidim posthumously, are extremely popular and have been reprinted numerous times.
R. Eliyahu Eliezer Skolsky, one of the heads of the Adat Yisrael community of London was born in Vilna. He was a descendent of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Grodnensky, a rabbi in Lithuania (son-in-law of Rabbi Yisrael of Salant, and father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky and Rabbi Reuven Dov Dessler). He dealt extensively in the research of Hebrew books and was in close contact with rabbis and learned scholars in England and throughout the world. A close friend of his famous cousin Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, author of Michtav M’Eliyahu, he assisted him in reaching London and in attaining a position in the Dalston rabbinate.
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