Nice recommendation letter on behalf of the ‘Bachur Hachasuv’ Tovye Schlezinger who needed to flee Slovakia due to the situation in the years preceding the Holocaust.
2 pages entirely in his Holy hand, signature & stamp, on official letterhead.
"And may you merit many more years to act for the sake of Torah and may the merit of his ancestors, may their souls be bound in the bond of life, assist him. And the situation of ours, which is known to us, that you know what is happening here "
He ends "And he shall delight… with matzah and the four cups, may the cup of salvation be quickly granted to the entire community of Israel in our days, eagerly awaiting the salvation of Israel, despised in his eyes, abhorred, and may God be honored."
The young man Mordechai F”d. from Nitra author of Beer Mordechai’s Seforim etc.
The Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Vorhand (1886/1887-1944), son of Rabbi Moshe Rabbi of Makova, disciple of Rabbi Eliezer Deutsch author of Tevuat Sadeh, the Kedushat Yom Tov of Sighet and the Arugat HaBosem. In his youth, he frequented the courts of Rebbe Mordechai of Nadvorna and Rebbe Yechezkel of Shinova. In 1909, he was appointed as Dayan and Posek in Bethlen (Beclean), Hungary, and in 1912, he began serving as rabbi and dean of Nitra, Slovakia, where he headed a large yeshiva.
He was particularly drawn to manuscripts of Rishonim and clarifying their early versions. During his stay in Italy in 1924 for health reasons, he spent many hours in the Vatican Library, attempting to locate various manuscripts. In that time, he also recorded an index, in which he describes numerous manuscripts which he saw. During this visit, he held a lengthy and sensitive audience with Pope Pius XI.
He composed over forty Seforim in Halacha and Aggadah, some of which were published. His halachic works which were printed in his lifetime was very well received, and earnt enthusiastic approbations from leading Hungarian rabbis. He perished in the Holocaust Hy”d.
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, see enclosed copy) 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).
23.8 Cm.
Good condition, filing holes.
