Auction 77
Lot 120:
Letter on chatiry – with the handwritten signature of the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir – addressed to Rabbi Yehuda Grasovsky – Jerusalem, 1948.
Rabbeinu wrote his letter in response to a request by Rabbi Grasovsky to send him a list of poor Talmidei Chachaim who are in need of support. Rabbeinu thanks him for his interest in the situation of Bnei Torah, who in these difficult times, are ineed poor: "הנני מודה לו על ההתענינות שהוא מגלה במצבם של בני התורה שבעקבות ימים אלה באו רבים מהם או כמעט כולם עד ככר לחם ממש והנם שוברים ורצוצים, ד’ ירחם…".
The days were those of the War of Independence and the Rosh Yeshiva emphasizes that the list includes mostly those who were living in frontier neighborhoods and had suffered more than others: "בהרשימה הנ"ל נרשם בעיקר או רק מגרי שכונות הספר שסבלו יותר מאחרים…".
It should be noted that the Mir Yeshiva itself was located close to the Jordanian frontier and suffered fron uncertainty and fear.
Official stationery.
22X27 cm.
Fold line. Good condition.
Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel (1877-1965) was the Rosho Yeshiva of Mir for many years. When he was a boy he studied under Gedolei Hador including Rabbi Shimon Shkop, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, the Chafetz Chaim of Radin and Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamai, whose daughter he married. After his father-in-law’s passing he served as the Rosh Yeshiva of Mir through its journey across Europe and to Jerusalem after the war, until his passing in 1965.
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