At the beginning of the letter Rabbi Aharon apologizes:
"Although it is sometimes difficult to frequently disturb Kavod the Gaon about our situation , knowing you are burdened with the hassles of mitzvahs and the spreading of the Torah, the magnitude of the sorrow of the Yeshiva encourages me to turn to Kavod the Gaon perhaps there will be some possibility to help.
What’s new in the matter of the Chief Rabbinate in your city, hopefully, Kavod the Gaon will succeed in bringing the genius, Moreinu Harav Yitzchak Eizik HaLevi Hertzog Shlit”a for the sake of strengthening Torah and religion, and improving the state of education. Please be willing to inform in his response about the results of the matter. How are things going in his holy yeshiva? Have they started building for the yeshiva? Where is your son Harav Mr. Yehuda? And is he consistently engaged in Torah study, and does he have a study partner?"
Kleck, 1935. Fully in his Holy hand & signature.
The president of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and leader of the generation the great Gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler (1892-1962) one of the greatest Gedolei Yiaroel in the recent generation. From a young age was renowned as an Iluy and diligent student. In his youth, he studied Torah with the Gaon Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana Shapiro. Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky (Chatana Dvei Nessi’ah of the Gaon Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz) who knew him, urged him to study at the Knesses Yosroel Yeshiva in Slabodka. There Rabbi Aharon became close to his rabbis the Rashei Yeshivas who greatly respected him. At the age of 22 Rabbi Aharon Married the daughter of the Gaon Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. Immediately after the wedding, he started teaching in his yeshiva in Slutzk and several years later, became its Rosh Yeshiva. In 1921, the yeshiva was forced to move to Poland to due persecutions by the communist government and settled in Kleck .
The recipient the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak HaLevi Segal (1881-1947), a disciple of the Alter of Novardok. A founder of the Etz Chaim yeshiva in London, he also established the Manchester yeshiva, which he headed for some 35 years.
Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak was an outstanding Torah scholar and an exalted Tzaddik. He devoted himself to disseminating Torah, and many of the rabbis of that time were his disciples (including Rabbi Shaul Wagschal of Gateshead, Rabbi Shmuel Alexander Unsdorfer, and others). Hegyonei Moharsha (p. 18) brings the wondrous testimony of two of his disciples, whose deceased father appeared to R. Moshe Yitzchak in a dream, requesting that he carefully supervise his orphaned sons. R. Moshe Yitzchak related the dream to them and asked them not to publicize it.
His son and successor as dean of the yeshiva was Rabbi Yehuda Ze’ev Segal (1911-1993), a holy Tzaddik and wonder-worker, who was very active in raising the awareness of the importance of guarding one’s speech, and was known as the Chafetz Chaim of England).
Official stationery of Rabbi Aharon Kotler Rosh Hayeshiva Demetivta Etz Chaim DeSlutzk which moved to Kleck. 28 Cm. Filing holes.
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