Handwriting and signature of the gaon Rabbi Gedalya Schmekles, Av Beit Din of Przymsl, nephew of the Beit Yitzhak of Lviv, addressed to Rabbi Chaim Brody, Av Beit Din of Prague. Przmysl, 1922.
Sent from the Agudas Mizrahi in Lviv, with a request for assistance for a girl who was lost during WWI and was found years later in a far-away village in the home of a non-Jew. He requests the businessmen of Przmysl to influence the government to remove the girl from the non-Jewish home.
At the end he adds a few lines:
“I am honored in this to participate in the request of the Agudas Mizrahi…to try on behalf of the above Jewish soul so that it doesn’t become impurified among the goyim and the Merciful One should have us merit to see it and I (?) you with blessings of peace…with respect, Gedalya Schmelkes, Avdak.”
Rabbi Gedalya Schmelkes (1847-1928) was Av Beit Din of the large town of Przmysl. A nephew and student of Rabbi Yitzhak Schmelkes, Av Beit Din of Lviv and author of the Shut Beit Yitzhak. His divrei torah were published in the book Imrei Regesh.
