Auction 49
Lot 118:
Letter (no date or addressee noted), signed by Rabbi Mordechai Dov Beer Slonim (grandson of the Mittler Rebbe, forefather of the Chevron Slonim family) and Rabbi Eliezer Klonsky.
“It is true that we received from the yad hagedola of the Rabbi Gaon Gadol Yitzhak Yerucham Diskin and the rabbis, members of the Vaad, together through the Rahach Yitzhak Chagiz, a total of 200 gold francs for the poor of the city of Chevron, and he gave it out immediately to talmidei chachamim, members of the yeshiva Torah Emet, and for the other poor. Our blessings and those of the poor for this chesed to our generous brethren from Philadelphia, may they and their actions be blessed, And we humbly request that Chevron’s indigent be remembered always, the poor suffering, may Hashem give those who do kindness all blessed things…”. Signed by the two above rabbis, handwritten, stamped in Chevron. Rust stains from a staple, graph paper, creases, overall good condition.
Rabbi Mordechai Dov Beer Slonim (1840-1916) was the grandson of the Admor HaEmtza’i. He was a Chabad chassid and an administrator of the Chabad Kollel in Israel. When he was 40 he travelled for the first time to Lubavitch, to the Admor Maharash. It is said that he looked very similar to the Mittler Rebbe. The Rashab called him “Chatani” in his letters, and it is said that when he was visiting the Maharash, the Rashab would sit with him for hours and hear stories about the prior Admorim which he had heard from his mother, Menucha Rachel. One time the Admor the Maharash looked for his son and found him with Rabbi Mordechai. He said: “You have taken for yourself a chatan close to your table”, and every since the Rashab called him “Chatani”.
Rabbi Eliezer Klonsky (1863-1917) was a merchant in the Jewish Yishuv of Chevron at the end of the Ottoman period and one of the community leaders. He was a leader of the Chabad community there, and he also played a central role in the founding of the Chesed L’Avraham hospital there, and in founding the Magen Avot yeshiva.
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