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Unique Letter by Maran the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky and His Wife!!! Addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Botchko and His Wife - 1932 - It is truly a matter of Piku'ach Nefesh - letter handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky - with a lengthy addition handwritten by his wife the Rebbetzin Yache, the daughter of the Gaon Rabbi Meir Atlas - addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Botchko, the Rosh yeshiva of Monterey and his wife the Rebetzin Rivkah of the Sternbuch family - Vilna, 1932.  In his letter, Rabbi Chaim Ozer asks about the health of Rabbi Eliyahu's wife, who had fallen and needed continuous medical care. He blesses her that G-d heal and strengthen her: ”ות”ל על חסדיו המרובים, כן יחלימה ויחזקה...” . Later in the letter, Rabbi Chaim Ozer tells him about an Avrech who was forced to leave Poland and move to Switzerland and about another Avrech, whom he recommends to accept as a Ram of the Monterey Yeshiva. At the end of the letter, he asks him to support the Jews of Russia: ”לאחינו המעונים והנדכאים וביחוד להרבנים והשוחטים שומרי משמרת הקדש שם...”. Beneath his words, the pious Rebbetzin Yache Grodzinsky wrote a lengthy letter in Yiddish addressed to Rabbi Eliyahu's wife - handwritten and signed by her.  To the best of our knowledge, a letter by Maran alongside a letter by his wife the Rebbetzin has never been auctioned!!! Official stationery.  21X26 cm.  Fold lines. Stains. Good condition.  *** The Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky [1863-1940], Av Beit Din of Vilna, leading contemporary Rav and leader of world Jewry. Studied in the Volozhin yeshiva with the Gaon Rabbi Chaim of Brisk. In 1885 he was appointed Rav of Vilna (although he was never its officially Rav since out of respect for HaGra, there was no official Rav of Vilna since his passing), president of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah who was considered the leader of Lithuanian Chareidi Jewry at the time in which great rabbis such as the Chafetz Chaim and Rabbi Chaim of Brisk lived, Worked for strengthening religion and establishing the yeshiva world, founding the Vaad Hayeshivot with the Chafetz Chaim. Author of the Shut Achiezer. The Rebbetzin Yache Grodzinsly (was murdered in the Vilna Ghetto), the second wife of Rabbeinu Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky. Was the daughter of the Gaon Rabbi Meir Atlas (1848-1926), a leading contemporary Lithuanian Rav, the Rav of Salant, Kobrin and more, who was also the in-law of the Gaon Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman. The Rebbetzin Yache was previously married to Rabbi Yehuda Kahana Shapiro, the son of the Gaon Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana Shapiro, who passed away young. She received Chalitzah by his eldest brother, Rabbi Avraham Dov Kahana Shapiro, the DEvar Avraham.