Auction 45
Lot 194:
Original letter of blessings for the new year from Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, filled with personal blessings for the new year and a request that Rabbi Yosef Haim “request mercy for us together with all members of the Diaspora, that Hashem have mercy on those of us who remain and that he fulfil a pidyon nafsheinu and bring us to Jerusalem with happiness and may Torah go out from there.”
It seems that Rabbi Yosef Chaim was the address for all Jews in the Diaspora to ask for blessings due to his proximity to the holy places in Jerusalem.
20.5x28cm. Filing holes, creases, light tears without missing text, good condition.
Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (1877-1965) was the head of the Mir yeshiva for many years. When he was a boy he studied under gedolei hador including Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Rabbi Haim Soloveitchik, Rabbi Baruch Beer Leibowitz, the Chafetz Haim, and under Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamay, whose daughter he married. After his father-in-law’s death he began to serve as head of the Mir yeshiva through its journey across Europe and to Jerusalem after the war, until his death in 1965.
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