Rare: Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yisrael HaLevi Soloveitchik, Johannesburg 1940
Letter written by hand and signed by the eldest grandson of the Beis HaLevi of Brisk, Rabbi Yisrael HaLevi Soloveitchik, when he served as a dayan in Johannesburg (South Africa). From the 9th of Shvat, 5700 (19 January 1940), Together with the letter were included £20.
Rabbi Yisrael HaLevi Soloveitchik (died 1951) was the son of Rabbi Avraham Baruch Soloveitchik, eldest son of Rabbi Yosef Dov, the Beis HaLevi. He was Rabbi of Smolensk after his father and a dayan of the Beit Din in Johannesburg. He studied under his uncle Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik and wrote down his shiurim, which were printed later from his manuscript in the “Meginzei HaGrach”. He died in New York when visited there and is buried there.
