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Letter from the genius Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik

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10.29.2019 07:00pm

"The Great Light of Torah and Yirah ktiva vehatima tova ...' Letter in the handwriting and signature of the Genius Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik of Zurich.

A letter of congratulations to Rabbi Yeshayahu Halevi on the occasion of his wedding. in his letter from the Gaon Treasure of blessings and praise to the bridegroom: "Great man... who will tell ... that he is one of the greatest Torah ...Who can tell in praise... '. And apologizes for not being able to come to his wedding day for various reasons and doubles with blessings.

Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Mordechai Soloveitchik [1915-1995]: Born to Rabbi Yisrael Gershon, firstborn son of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk. He learned with Rabbi Baruch Ber of Kaminetz in his youth, travelled to Switzerland in 1938 following his friend Rabbi Aharon Yehudah Leib Shteinman in order to avoid being drafted to the Polish army. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he remained in Switzerland and never returned to Brisk, where his family stayed and was annihilated in the Holocaust. During the war, he was imprisoned together with Rabbi Aharon Yehudah Leib Shteinman for a year in a quarantine camp established by the Swiss government for foreign citizens and refugees, and worked for a time in a labor camp. After the war, he traveled to the Land of Israel and studied in the Lomza yeshiva in Petach Tikvah. He was close with the Chazon Ish and had a warm relationship with his uncle, the Brisker Rav. Afterwards, he returned to Switzerland where he headed the yeshiva in Lugano. He was one of the great influences on Swiss Jewry and among the Chareidi leaders in all of Europe for inculcating original Jewish values.

[1] leaf. Write on both sides. Very good condition.

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311. Letter from the genius Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik