Auction 21
Lot 283:
Printed on a typewriter on official letterhead of the American Central Aid Committee, Israel branch. From 7th of Tammuz, 1924. Invitation to participate in a reception for the Rahag Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan) at the home of the chair Rabbi Dover Abramowitz in Zichron Moshe. Among the signatories are Rabbi Dover Abramowitz, the rosh yeshiva of Rav Yitzhak Elhanan in the US; Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Bernstein, Ra’avad chassidim in Jerusalem; Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Harlap, head of the Merkaz HaRav yeshiva and rabbi of Sha’arei Chesed; Rav Yehiel Michal Tukachinsky, head of the Etz Hayyim yeshiva; Rav Zerach Ephraim Epstein, head of the Torat Haim yeshiva; Rabbi Zvi Pesach Frank. | Rav Meir Bar-Ilan was the son of the Natziv of Volozhin, and was a rabbi and Zionist, among the heads of Religious Zionism, founder of the Talmudic encyclopedia and its first editor. When he was asked why he changed his name from Berlin, which represented generations of famous rabbis, he said that he wished to be remembered in history as the first “Bar-Ilan” and not the last Berlin. | Stains, lower-right-hand side is missing. 28x22cm. Bad to ok condition.
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