Kol Minei VeMilei Demeitav – letter with blessings – handwritten entirely and with
the full handwrittrn signature of the Admor the wonder-worker Rabbi David Moshe of Kretshnif – on the building of a Mikveh Tahara – Rechovot, 1957.
The letter was sent by Rabbeinu in gratitude for a sum of money that was sent to him for building a Mikveh in Rechovot:
"ואקוה ב"נ אי"ה אחרי שב"ק להתחיל לעבוד, ורב תודה לו". Rebbeinu then blesses him with warm blessings:
ויה"ר שזכות המצוה יגן עליו תמיד שינצל מכל מיני מכשולות… ועתה הנני לברכות בכתיבה וחתימה טובה ובשנה טובה מבורכת עם כל מיני ומילי דמיטב מתוך חיי נחת אמן…" and adds his full handwritten signature.
The Admor Rabbi David Moshe Rosenbaum of Kretshnif (1925-1969) was the son and successor of the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Zeev Rosenbaum of Kretshnif and the son-in-law of the Admor Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Rosenbaum of Nadvorna. In 1944, when he was sent with his father to Auschwitz, his father appointed him his successor, promising him that he would survive since “the people of Israel need him.” After the war a small number of Chassidim gathered around him in Siget and appointed him their Admor. He moved to Israel in 1947 and settled in Jerusalem. Upon the advice of the Chazon Ish and the Admor Rabbi Aharon of Belz, he moved to Rechovot to set up a Chareidi community. In 1969 he travelled to visit his ancestors’ graves in Romania, collapsed and passed away. His body was brought back to Israel, and he is buried in the Rechovot cemetery. His sons include the Admor of Kretshnif-Rechovot, the Admor of Kretshnif-Kiryat Gat (who passed away a month ago), and the Admor of Premyslan, the Admor of Bitchkov and more. Among his sons-in-law are the Admor of Sasov, the Admor of Poltishan, and more.
The Admor of Kretshnif was known as a wonder-worker, especially in medical matters, which he would ‘clothe’ in natural methods, with prescriptions that would be honored in pharmacies in Rehovot, eating certain foods, and some that would seem to oppose nature. Rabbi Gershon Eidelstein told the head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva that once when one of his family members consumed medicine, the Rebbe from Kretshnif ordered him to give a specific medicine and the patient was cured, which the doctors did not succeed in their various medicines. The Rav was shocked, and asked the Steipler how a young Rav succeeded, never having studied medicine, instead of the doctors. The late Steipler replied: "
Zayn Zagan is more than enough medicine" – what he says-blesses, helps more than the medicine he gives.”
