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LOT 55:
Lengthy letter, handwritten entirely by the great Gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rosh Yeshivas Etz Chaim Slutzk ...
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Sold for: $1,300 (₪4,199)
Price including buyer’s premium:
$
1,599 (₪5,164.77)
Calculated by rate set by auction house at the auction day
Start price:
$
1,200
Estimated price :
$1,500 - $1,800
Buyer's Premium: 23%
VAT: 18%
On commission only
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Lengthy letter, handwritten entirely by the great Gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rosh Yeshivas Etz Chaim Slutzk and Kleck. Sent to the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Shuv, one of the managers of Va'ad Hayeshivas and dealing with the terrible situation of his yeshiva. 1934.
Lengthy letter handwritten and signed by Maran the great Gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the future founder and Rosh Yeshiva of Lakewood, sent to the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Shuv, the right-hand man of the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer of Vilna and one of the leaders of Va'ad hayeshivas. In the letter, he describes the terrible situation of the Kleck yeshiva and begs to be sent money to support it 'due to the terrible situation the yeshiva is hanging on by a thread and exists miracuously with Chasdei Hashem'.
The great Gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler (1892-1962) one of the greatest Gedolei Yisroel in the recent generation, one of the reestablishers of the yeshiva world in America and one of the founders of the pure education in Eretz Yisroel and one of the leaders of the worlwide Agudas Yisroel. From a young age was renowned as an Iluy and diligent student. In his youth, he studied Torah with the Gaon Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana Shapiro and his rabbis in Slabodka. Married the daughter of the Gaon Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. Was Rosh Yeshiva of Slutzk and Kleck.
