Auction 34
Lot 156:
Typewritten letter on official letterhead of the Admor of Kretshnif in Rehovot from 1963. The Admor gives instructions that the recipient take the medicine he writes and ends with a blessing that “may the Heavens have mercy on you with complete health and a new year.”
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 Haim Mordechai Rosenbaum of Nadvorna. In 1944, when he was sent with his father to Auschwitz, his father appointed him his successor, promised him that he would survive since “the people of Israel need him.” After the war a small number of chassidim gathered around him in Sighet 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 Rehovot to set up a charedi community. In 1969 he travelled to visit his ancestors’ graves in Romania, collapsed and died. His body was brought back to Israel, and he is buried in the Rehovot cemetery. His sons include: Admor of Kretshnif-Rehovot, the Admor of Kretshnif-Kiryat Gat (who died a month ago), and the Admor of Premyslan, the Admor of Bitchkov zt”l, and more. Among his sons-in-law are the Admor of Sasov, the Admor of Poltishan, and more.
He was known as a miracle 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 of Lithuania 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 rabbi 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.”
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