Auction 41
Lot 232:
Letter signed by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Perlow of Karlin. The letter gives responses to kvitlach sent via Rabbi Aharon Holtevsky. The Admor gives many brachot, among them for a kol tov sela and chatima tova. Sofer script, handwritten signature of the Admor with handwritten gmar hatima tova. Size: 10x17cm. Good condition, folding creases.
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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