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Special Letter of Blessings Signed by the Admor Author of the Shefa Chaim - Kiryat Sanz, 1960 - ולראות פני מלך המשיח  - special letter of blessings by the Admor Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of sanz-Klausenburg - addressed to the chairman of Hamizrachi - Kiryat Sanz, 1960.  Rabbeinu wrote his letter is response to a letter of greetings that was sent to him by Mr. Gelman for his return from the USA back to Israel. In juis letter, Rabbeinu writes him warm, poetic blessings: ”ויהי רצון מלפני אבינו שבשמים שנזכה כולנו יחד לשבת בהרי ציון וירושלים בשלום ושלוה והשקט ובטח איש תחת גפנו ותחת תאנתו ולראות פני מלך המשיח, ולהרמת קרן התורה ואמונה טהורה בב”א..”. *** The Admor Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam (1904-1994) the son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Rodnik, the grandson of the Admor Rabbi Baruch of Gorlitz and great-grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. He was a disciple of Rabbi David Zvi Zehman of Dukla and the son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Teitelbaum of Sighet, the Atzei Chaim. He served as Rav of Klausenberg in 1926, of a separate community which objected to the Zionist tendencies of the local Rav Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glazner. He was accepted as Rav of Rodnik as successor to his father but he did not move there. He survived the Holocaust but his wife and 11 children were murdered. After the Holocaust, he worked to strengthen religious life in the DP camps. He immigrated to New York in 1947 and to Union City, where he set up his yeshiva.His second marriage was to the daughter of Rabbi Shmuel David Unger of Nietra. He immigrated to Israel and established Kriyat Sanz in Netanya in 1960. Was renonwen as a great Talmud Chacham who was knowledgeable in all secrets of the Torah. Most of his works were lost during the Holocaust. He authored the Shefa Chaim, Yehi Or, and Shut Divrei Yatziv. He established the Mifal HaShas to encourage repetitive learning of the Shas. He coined the title of Moreinu, which to this day, every Avrech of his community receives when he knows around 1000 leaves of Shas. He worked to institute the Shita of Rabbeinu Tam with Shki'ah and Bein Hashmashot, and established the Laniado Hospital in Netanya.