Letter requesting help with a visa & train tickets to the UK for his son as he’s leaving Slovakia due to the situation before the Holocaust.
Rabbi Yitzchak Friedman, Rabbi of Stara-Lubovno and Trnava (1895-1943). Son of Rabbi Shimon Yehuda Leib Rabbi of Lubloi. A student of the Akiva Sofer of Pressburg, Rabbi Baruch Fisher of Presov & Rabbi Menachem Shik Rabbi Sikso. After his father’s death, he filled his place and from 1936 Rabbi in Trnava. He was killed In the Holocaust Hy”d.
On official letterhead, good condition, filing holes, 23 Cm.
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 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).
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