Letter of blessing for the new year signed by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Perlov of Karlin. The letter was handwritten by the Gabai and acknowledges receipt of a pniya sent to the Rav. He blesses the recipient with “may you be blessed from the Above forever, to long and blessed years with blessings and success and abundance and parnasa and all good things and may Hashem fulfil all your desires for good and may you be written and stamped for a long life and peace and a shana tova …”
12.5X20 cm. Small tears along the edges. Stains and creases.
The Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Perlov 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 disciple, 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 Holocaust.
