Auction 75
Lot 60:
" What remained from my entire family of ten children are only two daughters" – touching letter by the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Noah brisk, Dayan of Mishkoltz – with an addition handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Shimon Zeev Ehrenreich, the son of the Gaon and wonder-worker Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich of Shamloy – Jerusalem-Haifa, 1946.
The content of the touching letter – the request of the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Noah Brisk from the union of Russian refugee rabbis to help him marry his two daughters, his only family members who were not murdered in the Holocaust: "וב"ה שבאתי ארצה בעירום ובחוסר כל ונשאר לי מכל ב"ב של עשרה ילדים רק שתי בנות שיחי’ וב"ה התקשרתי אתן בקשר החותן…".
Beneath his words, the signatures of the famed rabbis of Haifa:
– The Gaon Rabbi Baruch Markus.
– The Gaon RabbiYehoshua Kaniel.
– The Gaon Chassid Rabbi Yaakov Ben Zion Rottner.
– The Gaon Rabbi Nissim Ochana.
On the lower part of the letter, Rabbeinu Shimon Zeev Ehrenreich wrote a warm recommendation for his longtime friend, from the time he was Dayan in Mishkoltz: "הנני להעיד שאני מכיר את ידידי הרב הגאון וכו’ מו"ה ישראל נח בריסק שליט"א שהי’ מורה הוראה בישראל בק"ק מישקאלץ בבית דינו של הגאון העצום בעהמ"ס יגל יעקב זי"ע משך עשרה שנים ואחר פטירתו בערך שמונה שנים – ע"ז באעה"ח י"ב שבט תש"ו עיה"ק ירושלים תו"ב שמעון זאב עהרנרייך מלפנים רב במישקלץ".
Extremely rare! Autographs by Rabbeinu Shimon Zeev are almost nonexistent and are even rarer than letters by his father.
21.5X23.5 cm.
Fold lines. Good condition.
The Gaon Rabbi Shimon Zev Ehrenreich (passed away in 1965), the son of the Gaon and wonder-worker Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich of Shamloy. Son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Chaim Zvi Ehrenreich. Served as Rav in Mishkoltz. Published varied Sifrei Kodesh during the Holocaust as well as his father’s writings. After the Holocaust, immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem.
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