Auction 44

Lot of letters on community issues and by Rabbeinu Divrei Yoel from Rabbi David Eisenberger of the Satmar community. 1948-1950?

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1. 1. Postcard in the handwriting and signature of the late Rabbi David Eisenberger, one of the most important rabbis of Satmar and an associate of the late Rabbi Baal HaDivrei Yoel. The recipient’s name appears only in the titles and is not specified. The letter revolves around tensions over money related to the construction of a Satmar seminary in the city of Jerusalem, and is intended to solve the problem of money being delayed in the United States. “I’ve come to speak in Derech Eretz as a trial regarding the money that came to our beit midrash. I would like to say the beit midrash of honoring the Rebbe of Satmar by the chassid Muharram Chaim Freund shlita. … because if this is not compromised in a way that suits three parties, ie the side of the beit midrash and your side, we will take the more necessary measures and necessary steps in such matters … When there were years as a correction, the Rebbe sent us at least three hundred a year and now when you gather money for the benefit of his beit midrash in the United States you send a hundred dollars for several years and so on, such an amount could finance the needs of the beit midrash in such depressing times and alas for those who want to destroy and nullify the will of our Rabbi Shlita and so on, and I will end with my confidence Well … his friends and the key to his well-being and the well-being of all the members of the "David David Eisenberger". On the back of the postcard are 2 stamps of Palestine, without a postmark and a recipient’s name. It is possible that for some unknown reason the letter was not sent in the end. Dimensions: 14×9 cm.


2. Two letters on stationery / envelope. 1950. Addressed to his friend R. Zvi Pinchas HaCohen Moskovich [one of Satmar’s most important activists in the Holy Land] In one of them he recounts the meeting he had with the Rebbe "Divrei Yoel" in great detail, during which the Rebbe took an interest in the business of the Holy Land and finances In a second letter, he describes to his friend about the Hassidic life that prevails in Williamsburg in the shadow of the Rebbe, the streets full of Streimlach without interruptions, etc., etc., among the lines is his admiration and attachment to the late Rebbe "Divrei Yoel", "I give praise and Indian to his name. To this and relish from his holy ziv … and to hear from here sacred things like from Sinai … "Later he describes to his friend his journey back to the USA how the ship almost thought to break down and arrived at the New York port very close to Shabbat and forced his feet to his sons in Brooklyn etc. Dimensions: 18×30.5 cm. creases.

3. A written letter on both sides, in which he recounts his family and financial situation, also notes the joy of the conditions of his daughter "engaged to a nice-looking and God-fearing boy born in Satmar Ashri Ein saw the holy form of Rabbi Shlita shining within the disciples of sages …". : 15×22.5 cm. Separate top from the rest of the letter, folding marks.

Rabbi David Eisenberger, son of the late Rabbi Gershon, was one of the most important rabbis of the Satmar Chassidim in the United States and later in Jerusalem. An associate of the Admor Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar, the author of the "Divrei Yoel" ztl.