Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Mordechai Epstein, to the Kupat Gamach Keren Shmuel, with a request for a loan for the Chevron Yeshiva.
“These months in America there is a labour stoppage…and everyone travels to the countryside”. In the letter, the author expresses his sadness because during the summer all New Yorkers travel to the mountains and so there are fewer donations to the yeshiva. He asks the gamach for a loan of 200 lira, which the yeshiva will pay back in installments, “and the great good you will provide at this critical time, Hashem will repay you with goodness”
21×27.5cm.
Filing holes, stains, light tears in the margins, good condition.
Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein (1866-1934): in 1894 the Saba of Slobodka appointed him Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva he founded, the Yeshivat Slobodka. Later he settled in Israel (in Chevron, far away from the bustle of the city). After the 1929 riots he moved the yeshiva to Jerusalem, where he died in 1934. Wherever he lived he served as a leader of Haredi Jewry.
