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Letter by the Rebbetzin Sarah Tsharna the Wife of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ulman Author of the Yeri'ot Shlomo to Her Son the Gaon Rabbi Binyamin Ulman - 1876 - ”הקב”ה האט מיר דורך גראס חסד ווידער לטובה געהאלפון” -  familial letter - with many words of Emunah - handwritten and signed by the pious Rebbetzin Sarah Tsharna, the wife of the famed Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ulman Av Beit Din of Makova and author of the Yeri'ot Shlomo - addressed to her son the Gaon Rabbi Binyamin Ulman - Zento, 1876.  In those years, the Yeri'ot Shlomo had already passed away and Rebbetzin was living in Zento, with her daughter the Rebbetzin, the wife of the famed Gaon Rabbi Shimon Folk. In her letter, the Rebbetzin sends regards from the realtives in Zento, describing her life there, with wrods of Emunah and Bitachon. Among others, she recalls her miraculous return to life after being sick with pneumonia, ”א לינגען אצינד”, which was then an uncurable sickness: ”הקב”ה האט מיר דורך גראס חסד ווידער לטובה געהאלפון” [God, through great grace, helped me once again for the best].  The letter is signed by the REbbetzin once as ”מוטער”  (mother) and a second time, by her name: ”שרה טשארנה”. The Rebbetzin Sarah Tsharna Ulman, the daughter of Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Kenigsberg was the second wife of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ulman the author of the Yeri'ot Shlomo. She was a descendant of the Chacham Zvi and the Panim Me'irot. Her grandfather, Rabbi Ozer Kenigsberger was an important Talmid Chacham of Tzehlim and its was told that he merited seeing Eliyahu. The history of her husband is well-known and it is sufficient to qoute Maran the Divrei Chaim, who said of him ”אונגערן ווייס נישט וואס זייא פערמאגען...”. The addressee of the letter: The Gaon Rabbi Binyamin Ulman (1847-1931) a disicple of the Ketav Sofer. Published his father's book, the Yeri'ot Shlomo on the Shas in Munkatch, 1913.