Four letters in the handwriting and signature of the genius of Lomza Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordin - four postcards Sent at the end of his life in Chicago, where he was appointed to the rabbi of Chicago , to his sons and grandchildren who spent that time in Eretz Israel, The 1920s.
In a postcard from 11th to the Sefirat HaOmer [1924], the genius writes about the rumor that the "poet" (his intention to Haim Nachman Bialik who immigrated to Israel that year) came to live in Eretz Israel: "It is to uphold what was said: "ובאו בה פריצים ויחללוה '', in another postcard Regarding the punishments and heaven and the atonement, the genius wrote: " Last night I became a rabbi in Chicago, and of course I was very busy... And now I mean by my son-in-law and my daughter Esther and Pnina: one of the main reasons I got this Rabanut here - is because of you, so I can protect you in the help of G-d, And if for other reason, in Lomza would have been easier to be a rabbi ...'.
The Genius Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordin [1853-1925] Rabbi of various cities in Belarus and Poland, and served as Lomza's rabbi at the end of his life, after which he is known as the 'Lomza genius'. In his youth, he studied with Rabbi Moshe Danishevsky. When he was 24 years old, Rabbi of Michalshok died near Vilna, in the Russian Empire, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Cohen Korlitzer, and in his will ordered to appoint Rabbi Gordin under him. He served for nine years in the rabbinate. And in 1886, he moved to serve as a rabbi in the town of Augustov, near Bialystok, which was then part of the Subalek province. Although he was "Mitnaged", he was also accepted by Augustov's hasidic Jews. In 1914 he was elected to serve as Rabbi of Samargon, he established a yeshiva there, attended by about two hundred students.
In 1913, he was elected to serve as Lomza's rabbi, shortly after his appointment, World War I broke out and he dealt with the needs of the city's Jews against its changing authorities. As the city rabbi also Anxious for the fate of the Lomza Yeshiva and in 1925 traveled to Chicago to raise Donors for the Yeshiva. His appearance in Chicago, giving his speeches in English, made an impression on ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Chicago, and they chose to appoint him as chief rabbi of Chicago. He agreed to accept the appointment, but as he was preparing to take up his post, he fell ill and died in Chicago in May 4, 1925. He was buried at a mass funeral in Chicago. The letters before us all were written during this time when he was a rabbi in Chicago.
4 postcards. General condition: Good
