Auction 62
Lot 232:
Letter on a small piece of paper handwritten and signed by the Admor author of Birkat Avraham of Slonim from the 15th of Kislev 1970. Addressed to the management fo the Or Torah Yeshiva.
"שלום וברכה, בני הר’ דוד כותב לי שגיסתי מרת הינדה תחי’ נתנה לו תשעה עשר דולר להישיבה שיתפללו בעדה לרפואה, לכתוב לה הקבלה… בכבוד רב ידידכם דו"ש אברהם וינברג".
11X14 cm. Fold lines. Good condition.
The Admor Rabbi Avraham Weinberg, the Birkat Avraham of Slonim, (1888-1941) was the son of Rabbi Noach Weinberg. He was the 5th Admor in the dynasty, a member of the Council of Torah Sages, a businessman and educator. In his youth he travelled a number of times to live with his uncle, the Admor Rabbi Shmuel Weinberg, and even served as his delegation for other rabbis—Rabbi Haim of Brisk, the Chafetz Chaim, and Rabbi Yisrael of Chortkov—including for establishing Agudas Yisrael. He lived in Tiberias, was a member of the Central Council of the World Agudas Yisrael, a gabbay at Yeshivat Ohr Torah, and manager of the Talmud Torah in the city.
In the municipal elections of 1934 he was appointed and was the head of Agudas Yisrael there. In 1955 after the death of Rabbi Mottl Slonim of Tiberias, he was appointed by a secret ballot to be Admor. In 1960 he moved from Tiberias to Jerusalem. He led for another 27 years.
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