Auction 38
Lot 272:
Letter handwritten and signed on official letterhead of the Admor Rabbi Yehezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam of Stropkov. From Adar Bet of 1973. Addressed to Rabbi Shaar Yishuv Kohen, later Chief Rabbi of Haifa, from his residence in Jerusalem, in which he writes effusive blessings: “…I bless you with a kasher and happy Pesach as when we left Egypt Hashem showed us wonders and dedicated us and purified us to work him…may you merit to celebrate pesach with kashrut, you and your family and all of us, may we receive the face of the Messiah, may he come and redeem us and I pray for you, Yehezkel Shraga Lifshitz Halberstam of Stropkov.” Official stamp as well. Filing holes.
Admor Rabbi Yehezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam (1905-1995) was the son of Rabbi Issachar Dov Lifshitz, the Admor of Stropkov in Ungvar. He grew up under his maternal grandfather, Rabbi Avraham Shalom Halberstam of Stropkov, which is where he gets the name Halberstam. He was his uncle’s son-in-law, Rabbi Yitzhak Reuvan Lifshitz of Charny-Donitz. He survived the Shoah, where he lost his family. His second marriage was to the daughter of Rabbi Yehiel Michal Schlager of Bokshevitz. In 1932 he was appointed Av Beit Din of Yablonka, and in 1933 he became rabbi of Bergsatz. He was responsible on behalf of the Munich Rabbinical Council to spread Torah and Judaism in the DP camps. He moved to Israel in 1949, settled in Ramle, and then Jerusalem in 1954. He served as Admor of Stropkov after his uncle’s death, and his son Rabbi Avraham Shalom Issachar Dov was appointed to succeed him. He authored Taharat HaMishpacha in Hungarian, Munich 1947 (from his history in “Plagei Mayim”, 1996). He published “Divrei Issachar Dov, ” from his father’s and grandfather’s philosophies, and Divrei Yehezkel Shraga.
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