Letter handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Aharon Wolkin, Av Beit Din of Pinsk. Adar Bet, 1935

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Letter on official letterhead, written and signed by Rabbi Aharon Wolkin, Av Beit Din of Pinsk Karlin, regarding a recommendation for someone named Rabbi Zvi Kahan, about whom the rabbi testifies: “And now upon his journey to the Holy Land, one of the dear members of our city of Pinsk, he is a dear friend and excellent in Torah and Yirat Shamayim…Rabbi Zvi Kahan shlita. Our Holy Land is suited to him and he is suited to her, it is meet that he move there to Hashem’s place, he is pure and filled with good midot in a way that is hard to find…all members of the city admire him and revere him and his good deeds…we are all sad to separate from him, and we are only comforted by the fact that this brilliant sapphire will illuminate our Holy Land instead…we bless him that he may have a peaceful and blessed going and coming, for the benefit of our nation and our land.” He ends with a warm blessing: “I bless him and all of his supporters and relatives who find in him a believing man of no equal, our dear friend, with blessings, Aharon Wolkin.” Official stamp as well. 25x21cm. Small holes in the folding creases, few stains, tears in the upper and right margins. Overall good condition.

Gaon Rabbi Aharon Wolkin (1863/5 – 1942) was the son of Rabbi Yaakov Zvi. He was a student in the Volozhin Yeshiva and under Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanan Spector of Kovna. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Ben Zion Sorotzkin of Zechirna. He was a rabbi in Gruzdžiai in 1889, succeeding Rabbi Itzileh of Ponevezh, and then he served in a number of other towns before arriving in 1920 in Pinsk, where he was appointed a leading darshan and even sent on a delegation on behalf of the Agudas Yisrael alongside Rabbi Meir Hildesheimer to England and America in 1914. While there he refused offers to join the Rabbinate there. When in Pinsk he was arrested by the Communist and imprisoned for half a year. He was murdered in the Shoah. His well-known work is Beit Aharon, and he is known by that name. He also wrote Baal HaBatim, Zaken Aharon, Metzach Aharon, and more. His sons were Rabbi Haim, a Ram and Rosh Yeshivat Volozhin, and Rabbi Shmuel.

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