A handwritten letter and signature of the Adere't genius - an official Stationery from his tenure as "Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Prushim Community" in Jerusalem In his last years.
In his letter sent to
"my friend and My soulmate, the wise Jew the great genius... in all rooms of Torah the Honorable Zvi Ashwalk the High Priest of his brother the genius Av Beit Din Pinsk", the genius extends in money matters that were under his hand for the burial grandmother of the author Rabbi Yosef Meir, As well as the belongings of his family That remained. in his letter the genius refers to a plot of land that their grandmother bought from Rabbi Haim Hirschenson [publisher of Hamizdarona" Newspaper], and announce that for several years he has left Jerusalem and lives in Istanbul "I barely got his address". Towards the end of the letter, the genius writes about his many inconveniences:
"I'm sitting in peace and quiet, but old age and weakness jumped at me ... G-d strengthened and adopted and returned me to his Torah and holy work to buy Mental integrity for the rest of my life" , and apologizes that the public work does not leave him time to talk with him in Torah, and other matters. At the end of the letter, there are several lines in R. Matityahu's handwriting regarding the heirs.
The genius Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinovich Teomim [1843-1905], Rabbi and laurel of Israel. Served as a rabbi in the cities of Ponevezh and Mir in Lithuania and at In his last years of Jerusalem. Father-in-law of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook. Born in Picklin, Lithuania, a great genius and a righteous man who, as a young boy, was clearly blessed with his talents. Already at the age of 13 to 15, he wrote his "Shevet Ahim" essay on the rules of the Shas, and when he was 16 , In 1860, the family moved to the city of Ragula in central Lithuania, where the Adere't began writing innovations on Maimonides called "Masay Lemelech". Later he studied at Cloise in Ponevej, testifying to himself: "I repeated all the Shas in a hurry and my memory caught everything With G-d's help."
In 1886, his daughter, Alta Bat-Sheva, married Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook. (She passed away three years later and Rabbi Kook married Raisa Rivka, daughter of the Adere't brother- Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Rabinovich Teomoim.) After 18 years of rabbinic law in Ponevej, on Lag Ba'omer 1893 the Adere't accepted the rabbinate of Mir. After serving seven years as Rabbi of Mir, Rabbi Shmuel Salant, who was already very old and whose vision was weakened, was called upon to serve as his assistant to the Jerusalem Rabbinate to fill his place after his death. The Adere't immigrated to Eretz Israel in the year 1901, but died four years later, during the life of Rabbi Salant, in Adar 1905.
For several decades he used to walk during the day with small tefillin. He worte the autobiographical essay "Nefesh David" about his life, That's where his tremendous care in the small details is revealed. He says that on the night of the Seder he was very excited about the paragraph "VeHi SheAmdah" and burst into great tears over the agony of the people of Israel and the mercy of the Almighty with the people of Israel, "until I was ashamed of my household". When he was in Jerusalem, living in front of the temple, he said: "They thought to do me a favor and extend my life, but that only shortens my days, because every time I see the place of the temple I can't stop myself." To the magnitude of his appreciation in the eyes of Rav Kook, he worte the book 'Eder Yakar' after his passing.
[4] p. Official stationery of the Adere't from the time of his rabbinate in Jerusalem. Very good condition.
