Letter handwritten and signed on official letterhead by the Admor Rabbi Yisrael Aryeh Leib Halperin of Sklivka-New York, from “Wednesday of the week of Ekev, 1938, here in New York.” Sent to administrators of the Jerusalem institution “the Talmud Torah and yeshiva Chayei Olam”, in which he informs them that he received a check for them worth $2 from a generous woman, and asks that they send him a receipt for her. He signs with blessings for a ketiva and chatima tova, with his handwritten signature.
21x28cm. Filing holes, overall good condition.
The Admor Rabbi Yisrael Aryeh Leib of Skelivka, successor of his father the Admor Rabbi Baruch of Skelivka, had great yichus: on his father’s side he was grandson of the Admor Rabbi Meir of Przmyslan, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Horowitz of Rofshitz, the author of the Degel Machaneh Ephraim, and through him to the Baal Shem Tov. He was born in Skelivka (Poland). From his youth he began to study Torah together with his father. He married the daughter of Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Shtikled (Av Beit Din of Kolikov). He served as Admor in Lviv (Ukraine), then moved to the US and in 1931 began to serve as Admor in New York and rabbi of the Yismach Yisrael synagogue. He died in 1961/2.
