A thrilling letter in the handwriting and signature of the Mashgiach Rabbi Yechezkel Levinstein to the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Huminer, Av 7, 1961, about the magnitude of the obligation to study morality, and G-d forbid the sin of a man who commits acts that 'destroying Jerusalem'.
The genius opens his letter with the greatness of the importance of the study of morality: "I really want to have some part in strengthening the study of the musar, The importance of human work, even to keep only one mitzvah properly ..." , and adds things about the deep meaning of human deeds, which as it is said 'Everyone who mourns Jerusalem wins and sees its Built', so who does not mourn does not see, and even worse if he does deeds that destroy It's not called 'mourning', you're destroying...", and the genius adds towards the end of things the obligation for man to strengthen himself: "The person must to strengthen oneself in faith and moral, and the love of blessings, How important the burden on the person to see that his deeds are in strengthening and contemplation..."
The Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Levinstein [1885-1974] one of the greatest Torah and Yirah in Poland and Eretz Israel. One of the greatest Ba'aley HaMusar of the last generation, a guide for the many in the ways of work of g-d. He studied at the Kelmė and Mir yeshivot in Poland. Was a rabbi at the Clutterbuck and Lomza yeshiva. At the outbreak of World War II he fled with the Mir Yeshiva to Vilnius (Vilna), which was for a short time under Lithuanian rule. From there he moved with the yeshiva to Kaidan, and from there traveled with the students east to Cuba and Shanghai. In 1954, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and joined the Ponvez Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. At his funeral, Rabbi Elazar Menachem Shach In an obituary for him said, that he had never seen a servant of G-d as Rabbi Yechezkel.
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