A letter of thanks and request acknowledging the receipt of a one lira donation from the woman Chaya Baila Meyers, and his request for the future "And surely God will help him to bring a blessing to the yeshiva which has a tremendous value in Ruchniyus. Because it is the center of the Torah and its influence is great on the inhabitants of our country, and in contrast to this, its condition is terrible. And a shortage prevails. God will have mercy on the exodus of Israel in general and in particular His mercy has not run out."
Jerusalem, 1933. 27.1 Cm.
The Gaon Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein was born in 1866. He studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva. One of the greatest heads of Lithuanian yeshivas, and one of the leaders of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. He was asked by the Alte from Salvodka’ to serve as head of the Knesset Yeshiva of Israel. He was an Av Beit Din in Slobodka and also active in the Council of Torah Scholars. In 1924 he immigrated to Hebron with the yeshiva members and from 1929 he lived in Jerusalem until his death on the 10th of Kislev in 1934. He authored the Sefarim series L’Vush Mordechai.
Rabbi Ya’akov Shechter (1888-197), Rabbi in Galatz, Manchester and Belfast, author of Likutei Ya’akov and Shema Ya’akov.
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