Letter of thanks for sending £2 in support of the Volozhin Yeshiva. He also asks them ”To please furnish us with the addresses of wealthy donors who love Torah & will listen to our call for urgent help”.

And concludes with blessings in his Holy hand, ”May you be blessed by the Lord with all goodness and may He fulfill all the desires of their hearts and souls, as i bless your beloved soul with love, waiting for the salvation of the Lord”.

Volozhin, 1922. On official stationary.

The Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro (1873-1936) was the son of Rabbi Refael and grandson of the Netziv. He learned Torah by his great brother-in-law, Rabbi Chaim of Brisk. After World War I, he reestablished Volozhin and served as rav of the city. He left behind many manuscripts of halachic responsa and explanations of sugyos throughout the Torah that were destroyed by the Nazis. The little that was salvaged was printed under the title Gaon Yaakov.

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.

Rabbi [Menachem] Mendel Yitzchak ben Moshe Avraham Behrman from Kartinka, in the Kovna region, was a student of the Volozhin & Eišiškės
Yeshivos. He was a great and distinguished rabbi who served in the city of Grimsby, and later in the city of Gateshead. From there, he was appointed as the rabbi in the city of Middleboro, and eventually became the Av Beit Din in the city of Manchester, where he passed away in 1929 at the age of seventy.

Filing holes. 26.5 X 21 Cm.

Lot #188

Important letter with blessings by the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro Rabbi & Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin to the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Segal of Manchester & Rabbi Mendel Yitzchak Behrman the Menahel of the Yeshiva. 1922.

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Important letter with blessings by the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro Rabbi & Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin to the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Segal of Manchester & Rabbi Mendel Yitzchak Behrman the Menahel of the Yeshiva. 1922.

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