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LOT 101:
Letter from Rebbetzin Chana Kotler on Reb Aharon's Stationery. Kletzk, 1936
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Letter from Rebbetzin Chana Kotler on Reb Aharon's Stationery. Kletzk, 1936
Early letter handwritten and signed by Rebbetzin Chana Kotler on stationery of her husband, the gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler, rosh yeshivah of Kletzk, and later leader of the American exile. Kletzk, 1936.
Private letter written to a family friend, R' Ephraim Gurevitz (later of Petach Tikvah) with a request that he bring a package to her parents in the Land of Israel. These were none other than the mighty gaon Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer and his wife, who had lived their entire lives in Lithuania, alongside their daughter and their prominent son-in-law, in Slutzk, where Rabbi Isser Zalman served as local rabbi and rosh yeshivah, and later on in Kletzk, where they had fled from the Bolsheviks.
The letter was written on Rabbi Aharon Kotler's stationery during his term as Rosh yeshivah of Slutzk which relocated to Kletzk: "Metivta Ravta Etz Chayim of Klutzk, presently in Kletzk." In 1925, Rabbi Isser Zalman was invited to serve as rosh yeshivah of Etz Chayim in Jerusalem, and he ascended to the Land of Israel. The letter was sent about ten years later, when packages were sent from "wealthy" Poland, the largest Jewish center in the world, to the poverty-stricken Land of Israel. Not many years passed, and fortunes reversed. Polish Jewry was destroyed, and the gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler and his wife were both saved by Divine Providence with the Shanghai refugees.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler and his wife, Rebbetzin Chana Perel.
[1] leaf paper, approximately 21x27 cm.
Moderate condition. Aging stains. Fold marks. Tears in the folds, reinforced with tape, with blemishes to several individual words.
