Letter signed by the Admor Rabbi David Zvi Shlomo Beiderman of Lalov requesting support for the families of his sons-in-law who died during the famines of WWI. With additional words from his brother-in-law, Rabbi Meir Adler, Rosh Yeshiva Chayei Olam. Jerusalem 1918.
The letter was written in Iyar 1918, four months before the Admor himself died. It is written to Rabbi Henich Werner, appointed on the division of funds from the American Keren Torah (Fund) (established by American Jews to support Jerusalem Jews during WWI). He requests that Rav Werner include his grandchildren (children of Rabbi Avraham Simcha Adler and Rabbi Aharon Yehoshua Aliach) to the list. These two sons-in-law died during WWI in the famine that took place at the time in Jerusalem.
His brother-in-law Rabbi Meir Adler also wrote and signed on the letter and states that he would like the kuppah to support the Admor himself “who has for more than half a year been sick with a blood platelet disease” and who is “located on the secondary list despite being the head of the Chassidic community in Jerusalem and thus deserving of being at the top of the list…”
Very important letter filled with important historic details. 14x23cm. Duplicate paper, three pages. Tears in creases, good condition.
The Admor Rabbi David Zvi Shlomo Beiderman of Lalov (1844-1918) was the son of the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Mendel Beiderman of Lalov. It is said that on his journey to Israel his father took him to visit the hatzerot of Chassidic gedolim of the time. When they visited the hatzer of the Rahak of Ruzhin he said “those eyes are so pure, they light up this baby, the owner of these eyes will never sin(!)”. He was a leader of Jerusalem Chassidic Jewry and was revered by all Jews of Jerusalem at the time and even the Arabs and the Turkish authorities.
