Auction 17

Letter from the Gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler—with his handwriting and signature.

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Printed on typewriter, official letterhead of the Lakewood yeshiva. From 1961. To Rav Yitzhak Bonim, Rav of the Beit Yaakov Ohev Shalom synagogue in Brooklyn. He thanks and blesses him for his work. He prophecies that the Lakewood yeshiva would expand the generation of Torah in this generation—when he wrote it there were only 100 students, today there are more than 10,000. Second largest in the world. He lived 1892-1963, was president of the Council of Torah Sages and founder of Olam HaTorah in the United States. Head of Kaltzak yeshiva in Poland, and then founded and headed the Lakewood yeshiva. Hole punch. Marks from folding. Generally very good condition.