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Rare! Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Author of the Divrei Binah the First Admor of Biala - Addressed to the Rebbetzin and Her Daughter - 1902 - interesting letter - by the Admor Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinovich of Biala - addressed to his wife the Rebbetzin Rachel Levi'ah and his daughter - 1902.  Rabbeinu sent the letter in 1902, three years before his passing. Possibly, already then he travelled to see remote physicians and from afar sent his regards to his dear family. In his letter, Rabbeinu writes that he intends to send them a long letter with a courier; in it he will answer all their questions: ”על ראשון ראשון ועל אחרון אחרון”.  He sends them the blessing of a Rav and father: ”וכל טוב יתן ה' הטוב בעלך ואביך הדו”ש יצחק יעקב”. Later, Rabbeinu instructs a member of his Chatzer, ”Rabbi Avraham Mordechai” to travel immediately for the passport: ”הנני מצווה אותך שתסע תומ”י (תיכף ומיד) עבור הפ”פ (פספורט) בלי עיכוב...”. At the end of the letter, Rabbeinu blesses his sons and grandsons and his son-in-law, the Admor of Skernivitz (Skierniewice).  9X14 cm.  Dark paper. Good condition.  Enclosed is the official stationery of the Admor (a blank leaf).  14X21.5 cm.  The Admor Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinovich (1847-1905) the first Admor of Biala. The son of the Admor Rabbi Natan David of Shidlovtza and a descendant of the Yehudi Hakadosh of Pshischa.  Regarding the naming of Yaakov Yitzchak after his grandfather, it is told that his father yearned to name one of his sons after his grandfather. However, each time a child was born, he would look at its face and say, ”This is not him, ” until the house was filled with light uponRabbeinu's birth, and then his  father declared, ”This is him!” He was revered by all leading Chassidic rabbis of his generation. Even in his childhood, Maran the Divrei Chaim rose before him and seated him on his chair! And the Admor Rabbi Yitzchak of Neshchiz commented about him that ”שהכל נהיה בדברו - על פי דברו יעשה (הקב”ה) כל דבר”. Thousands flocked to his Chatzer in Biala, and at the time of his passing, the Biala Chassidut numbered about five thousand people.