Auction 38
Lot 266:
Letter from the Admor of Karlin with his handwritten signature. At the top of the page is his official stamp: “Avraham Elimelech Perlow Karlin, Karlinska 53”, addressed to “my friend Yisrael Yehuda”, in which the Rebbe writes many blessings: “for all of his requests I return to him that Hashem may have mercy on him to release him from his difficulties and send aid to him to give him blessings and success and fulfill all his requests for good and may he have nachat from his son…and Hashem fulfil all his requests. His friend who blesses him, Avrahma Elimelech.”: Size: 12x20cm. Folding creases, good condition.
The Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Ferlov of Karlin (1892-1943) was the son of Rabbi Yisrael of Stolin and son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Mordechai Yosef of Zaltipoli. After his father died, his father’s chassidim wanted to crown him in accordance with his father’s wishes, but he refused, and only after pressure from his father-in-law and Rabbi Yisrael of Chortkov did he agree to be appointed as Admor in Karlin. He established the Ohr Yisrael yeshiva in Luninitz (Belarus) and Beit Aharon in Jerusalem, which still exists today. His student, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Beiderman of Lalov, expressed that he was the “Baal Shem Tov of his generation.” When the Nazis took over Karlin he was in Israel (he visited 4 times during his life), and despite the pleading of his chassidim he returned to Karlin in order not to abandon them and was sadly murdered in a kiddush hashem during the Shoah.
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