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Extremely Rare Illutsrtaed Postcard Featuring the Portrait of the Admor of Shtefanesht Rabbi Avraham Matityahu Friedman - Eatsern Eurrope Early 10th Century - Rare illustrated postcard - ”Gross Rabbiner Avraham Matisyahu Friedman of Shtefaneshti”. A postcard featuring a unique and artisitic engraved-like  illsutration of the Admor of Shtefanesht, Rabbi Avraham Matityahu Friedman. He is depicted walking, wearling his long coat and the Chassidic Shtreimel of the Ruzhin Chassidim, holding a walkein stick. The illustration is signed with the artist's intiials (Dim?). Printed on the lower part of the postcard is a Yiddish inscription in Hebrew letters: ”גראס ראבינער אברהם מתתיהו פרידמאן משטפנשטי” [the great Rav Avraham Matityahu of Shtefanesht].  [1] postcard. Approx. 14X9 cm. Paper with patina and minor foxing. Good overall conditon.  The Tzaddik of Shtefanesht was a famed wonder-worker. Many Romanian Jews hang his picture in their homes as a Segulah for protection. *** The Admor Rabbi Avraham Matityahu Friedman of Shtefanesht (1847-1933) was the second Shtefaneshter Rebbe and the grandson of the Rahak of Ruzhin. Upon his father’s death in 1869, he was appointed to head the Shtefanesht community, which he led for 64 years until his death in 1933. He served as a destination for all Romanian Jewry and he was known as the “Tzaddik of Shtefanesht”. Even after his death Romanian Jews would visit his grave on his yahrzeit and pray for mercy and salvation. In 1969 his body was moved from Romania to Israel and reburied at the Nachalat Yitzhak cemetery in Givatayim. It is still a pilgrimage site.