A warm and moving letter to Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Segal Rosh Yeshiva of Manchester.
The Gaon Rabbi Yosef Babad (1875-1943) was raised by his grandfather, Rabbi Alexander Shmuel Haperin Av”d Lemberg and by Rabbi Yitzchak Shmelkes, Av”d Lemberg and author of Beit Yitzchak. In 1910, he began serving as rabbi of Kalusz, a position he maintained for about twenty years. He later served as rabbi in Vienna until 1939, when he fled to Amsterdam and then took the very last ship that left for England. In 1940, he settled in Manchester but the terrible hardships and horrible news from occupied Europe affected his heart and he died on 2nd of Adar 1943. (Meir Wunder, Encyclopedia L’Chachmei Galicia).
A small refugee Jewish community existed in Buxton during the Holocaust years.
https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/buxton/The_Jewish_Community_of_Buxton.htm
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).
26 Cm. Good condition.
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