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Extremely Rare! Never Seen! Touching Letter by the Gaon Rabbi Zvi Hacohen Kopschitz Father of the Glorious Kopschitz Family - Hebron, 1925 - Touching and meaningful letter handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Zvi Hacohen Kopschitz of Jerusalem, father of the glorious Kopschitz Family whose sons and son-in-law were leading Gedolei Torah and Hora'ah in Israel. Hebron, 1925.  The letter was sent about a year after his immigration from Lithuania as part of an elite group of the Slabodka Yeshiva that immigrated to Eretz Yisrael with the Saba of Slabodka to establish the Hebron Yeshiva and from there it was sent.  The letter is addressed to the directors of the Hamizrachi Histadrut. Its content indicates that Zvi Koptschitz asked for their help in obtaining immigration certificates for his sister Tzrna, who had remained in Russia under Stalin's reign of terror.  The certificate was indeed issued and sent to Moscow yet by the time it reached her, it was going to expire and could not be used.  With utmost integrity, the young man, who immigrated to Eretz Yisrael by himself, hurries to send the Hamizrachi Histadrut the money for their expenses to obtain the certificate, although eventually it was of no benefit.  His reasoning is ”בכל זאת אשלח תיכף את ההוצאות שהוציאו, ולא תהיה עוד נעילת דלת לעשות טובות לבני ישראל, כמאמר חז”ל: 'ולא תהי' מכשילן לעתיד לבא'.” Eventually, Rabbi Zvi Kopschitz married the granddaughter of Maran Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnefeld and merited raising a glorious generation of Talmidei Chachamim, rabbis and Rosh yeshivas.  Written on his tombstone: ”מסר נפשו לגדל בניו ובנותיו לתורה ויראת שמים מתוך עוני ודוחק גדול בתפילה ובתעניות” - this touching letter indeeds indicates his rare integrity and devotion to his family! A family story recounts that before her marriage, his wife, Chanah Kopschitz, turned to her grandfather Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, who was in charge of a charity fund for poor orphans and cuples, asking for help for purchasing clothes for the wedding. Rabbi Yosef Chaim answered that since he accepted responsibility for the fund, he took it upon himself not to use it for himself or his offspring. Instead, he blessed her with longevity and the merit to raise sons who were Talmidei Chachamim - a blessing that was indeed fulfilled.  [1] leaf. 27 cm.  Good-very good condiiton. Filing perforations.  Enclosed is the insensitive letter of the directors of the wealthy Hamizrachi: not only did they not manage to bring the sister to Eretz Yisrael, they demand that the poor yeshiva student, the new immigrant with no family in Erezt Yisrael, reimburse them for their full expenses  - ”so that our gain does not become our loss”.  It is precisely against this backdrop that Rabbi Zvi Kopschitz' character shines even brighter: rather than considering himself exempt from payment after the mission failed, he chose, out of remarkable integrity and rare moral responsibility, to cover the expenses himself, so as not to deter, Heaven forbid, future acts of kindness on behalf of the Jewish people.