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Rare and Unique! Couple of Coupons for Passover Chalukot with the Handwritten Signature of the Jerusalem Tzaddik Rabbi Aryeh Levin - Jerusalem 1929-1932 - עולם חסד יבנה! Couple of coupons for Passover Chalukot with the handwritten signature of the Jerusalem Tzaddik Rabbi Aryeh Levin. 1. Coupon for Chalukat Matzot of the Vaad Haklali Knesset Yisrael Jerusalem for a woman - Jerusalem, Nissan 1929. The coupon is signed with pencil by the Jerusalem Tzaddik Rabbi Aryeh levin who received the coupon on her behalf. Bluish paper. Approx. 10X12 cm. Good condition. 2. Coupon for paying a sum to Rabbi Aryeh Levin ”to be dispributed by him to the poor” - Nissan 9, 1932. The Jerusalem Tzaddik signed that he received the coupon on behalf of the person. White paper. Folds and minor stains. Approx. 9X13 cm. Good condition. The Jerusalem Tzaddik Rabbi Aryeh Levin (1885-1969) the son of Rabbi Binyamin Beinush. He was Mashgiach at the Etz Chaim yeshiva in Jerusalem and one of the greatest figures of the city. He was known for his charity and became known as Father of the Priosners or Rav of the Prisoners for visiting prisoners every Shabbos for more than 25 years, since the British Mandate. He studied at the Volozhin yeshiva under Rabbi Refael Shapira, and received his Rabbinic Semicha from Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Upon the establishment of the State of Israel he established the yeshiva now named after him, Beit Aryeh. Rabbeinu was the father-in-law of the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and his descendants include Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky and Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, Rav Kook of Tiberias and many others. Many stories were told about his virtues and many deeds of charity. His last request was not to be eulogized.