Auction 56
Lot 201:
A response to a kvitl and request sent to Rabbeinu from Jerusalem. In the letter, the Admor blesses the recipient “from Hashem…may he merit giving from wealth and prosperity as Hashem’s good hands”. Sofer script signed by the Admor. Good condition, creases.
The Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Ferlov of Karlin (1892-1943) was the son of Rabbi Yisrael of Stolin and son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Mordechai Yosef of Zaltipoli. After his father died, his father’s chassidim wanted to crown him in accordance with his father’s wishes, but he refused, and only after pressure from his father-in-law and Rabbi Yisrael of Chortkov did he agree to be appointed as Admor in Karlin. He established the Ohr Yisrael yeshiva in Luninitz (Belarus) and Beit Aharon in Jerusalem, which still exists today.
His student, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Beiderman of Lalov, expressed that he was the “Baal Shem Tov of his generation.” When the Nazis took over Karlin he was in Israel (he visited 4 times during his life), and despite the pleading of his chassidim he returned to Karlin in order not to abandon them and was sadly murdered in a kiddush hashem during the Shoah.
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