Letter handwritten and signed by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech of Karlin, hy”d.

Letter handwritten and signed by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech of Karlin, hy”d.

Letter on official letterhead of the Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Ferlov of Karlin, approving a pidyon of half a lira for a well-known chassid, Rabbi Aharon Haltovsky, from the chassid Rabbi Moshe Shalom Shor (one of the owners of the Shor wineries), and he continues with a bracha. “I hereby bless him that he will be blessed by Hashem in everything that he sets out to do, that only good things and chesed will follow him throughout his life, may he be written and stamped in the book of tzaddikim for a long and happy life.” Signed by hand. [1], 15x12cm. Filing holes and folding creases. Overall good condition.

The Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Ferlov of Karlin (1892-1943) was the son of Rabbi Yisrael of Stolin and son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Mordechai Yosef of Zaltipoli. After his father died, his father’s chassidim wanted to crown him in accordance with his father’s wishes, but he refused, and only after pressure from his father-in-law and Rabbi Yisrael of Chortkov did he agree to be appointed as Admor in Karlin. He established the Ohr Yisrael yeshiva in Luninitz (Belarus) and Beit Aharon in Jerusalem, which still exists today. His student, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Beiderman of Lalov, expressed that he was the “Baal Shem Tov of his generation.” When the Nazis took over Karlin he was in Israel (he visited 4 times during his life), and despite the pleading of his chassidim he returned to Karlin in order not to abandon them and was sadly murdered in a kiddush hashem during the Shoah.