Auction 35
Lot 154:
Letter on official letterhead handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yosef Dov Beer HaLevi Soloveitchik. From the 5th of Tammuz, addressed to “rabbanim geonim shlita, leaders of the Agudas HaRabbanim of the US and Canada, and the respected rabbis of our Holy Land shlita”, in which he writes excitedly and emotionally about the secular situation in Israel and crying out in his poetic language against the bad news he has heard regarding the mistaken direction taken by so many Jews as a result of such education: “Their fathers’ blood is crying out to us from the earth to defend their descendents, to fight Hashem’s war to save their soul’s deaths and to rejuvenate them with religious education. And to those who are led astray, we say: To preserve yourselves, go up the mountain and touch its edge…return to life. Writing tearfully and wishing for the Redemption, Yosef Dov Beer HaLevi Soloveitchik, Spring Valley, NY.”
Rabbi Yosef Dov Beer HaLevi Soloveitchik (born 1908) was the son of Rabbi Simcha and grandson of Rabbi Haim, the Brisker Rav (the Beis HaLevi). He studied under his father and Rabbi Shlomo Poliachok of Meitzit. He was the son-in-law of the Edelman family of Lithuania. He immigrated to the US in 1933 and served as rabbi of the Bnei Yisrael community in Spring Valley. He was a member of the Council of Rabbis in America and helped found Yeshiva University.
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