In the letter, Rabbeinu tells his sons that he plans to drive to Pittsburgh for his grandson’s wedding (the son of the Admor Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua).
In 1944, the Admor Rabbi Shlomo Twersky of Denver married the daughter of the Admor Rabbi Yosef Leifer of Pittsburgh (the Tzidkat Yosef).
The Admor also writes that he bought “for Shlomoleh silver objects as the Drasha Geschanke [wedding present]…and may Hashem help that he may use it”. In many Chassidic hatzerot, including Chernobyl, it was traditional at every wedding to have a Drasha Geschanke ceremony in which it was announced what each guest gave as a gift to the bride and groom.
Another important matter discussed by Rabbeinu in the letter is the matter of helping defray wedding expenses, and he includes a story that he heard about the Admor of Munkacs from a New York Jew that “he said that they sent the Rebbe of Munkacs a total of $2500 and said that he would fulfil all his needs”.
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The Admor Rabbi Ben Zion Yehuda Leib Twersky (1868-1951) was the son of Rabbi Mordechai Dov of Hornosteipel, and son-in-law of the Rahak Rabbi Yitzhak Yoel of Kontikoziva (grandson of the Tsu’at Chen). Upon his father’s death on the 22nd of Elul, 1903 he succeeded him in Hornosteipel (Ukraine). In 1939 he travelled to Antwerp and he was stuck there because of the war. He travelled to the United States and settled in Chicago, until his death in 1951.
