Rental contract printed and filled in by hand for the Beit Avraham Slonim yeshiva at Milners Houses in Jerusalem. The owner is “Vaad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael” and the renters are “Rabbi Shalom Noach Berezhovsky”—Rosh Yeshiva and founder, later Admor of Slonim—and “Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg”, at that time mashgiach, Ram, and administrator of the yeshiva.
The contract was finalized on the 28th Elul, 1943, just before the next school year began. Signed by the mazkir Rabbi Yisrael Zeev Minzberg (Ra’avad of Badatz Kolelot Chassidim in Jerusalem), Rabbi S. Zalman Rivlin, and Rabbi Ben Zion Levinson. The renters signing the document are the Admor Rabbi Shalom Noach Berezhovsky (the Netivot Shalom) and Rabbi Chaim Eliyahu Sternberg.
25x35cm. A Palestine stamp, total of 10 words. Creases, a few stains and tears in the margins.