Collection of Letters from Lithuanian Rabbis - Addressed to Rabbi Shraga Meir Leizerowitz

Collection of Letters from Lithuanian Rabbis - Addressed to Rabbi Shraga Meir Leizerowitz
Seven letters from the archive of R. Shraga Meir Leizerowitz of Kelm - later rabbi of Chevrat Shas in London.
• Rabbinic ordination, handwritten and signed by R. Mordechai Gimpel Yoffe. Ruzhany, 1885.
• Letter of good year wishes, handwritten and signed by R. Aryeh Leib Lipkin (nephew of R. Yisrael of Salant). Kretinga, Elul 1900.
• Lengthy letter (7 pages of Torah thoughts) handwritten and signed by R. Shraga Meir Leizerowitz, addressed to R. Binyamin Eliyahu Kantor Rabbi of Działoszyn. [London], 1922.
At the end of the letter, R. Leizerowitz asks R. Kantor to relay the letter to his nephew R. Shmuel Yisrael HaKohen Kaplan Rabbi of Kolno, for him to study it.
On verso of the last leaf of this multi-page letter: Letter handwritten, signed and stamped by R. Binyamin Eliyahu Kantor Rabbi of Działoszyn, who sent this letter to R. Kaplan.
• Lengthy and interesting letter (2 pages), of Torah thoughts and worldly matters, handwritten and signed by R. Shmuel Yisrael HaKohen Kaplan. Kolno, Iyar 1924.
• Lengthy letter (3 pages), handwritten and signed by R. Menachem Manes Horowitz. Antwerp (Belgium), Kislev 1913.
• Letter (2 pages), halachic query pertaining to Hilchot Shechita, handwritten and signed by the shochet and bodek R. "Avraham son of R. Sh. Zeidel ---, cantor, shochet and bodek of the --- community".
• Interesting letter handwritten and signed by R. Eliyahu Eliezer Skolsky. London, Chanukah 1925.
R. Mordechai Gimpel Yoffe (1820-1892) was a leading Torah scholar in his generation - the times of the Netziv and R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor. He was a disciple of R. Yitzchak of Volozhin, who predicted that he would be amongst the foremost rabbis of the generation. He served as rabbi in Deretchin (Dziarečyn), and later in Ruzhany (Lithuania, presently Belarus), a position he held for some 36 years, until his immigration to Eretz Israel in 1888. Upon his arrival in Eretz Israel, he settled in the newly established moshava of Yehud, where he founded a yeshiva of outstanding Torah scholars and became the spiritual-religious leader of the New Yishuv in Eretz Israel. In the 1889 Shemittah polemic, R. Mordechai Gimpel was amongst the leading opponents of the Heter Mechira (maintaining that since the Jewish people's exile from the Land was due to Shemittah desecration, the survival of the new settlement would depend on full observance of the commandment of Shemittah), and he supported the farmers in Ekron who steadfastly observed the Shemittah. He authored many books on Halacha, Talmud and Aggadah, some of which were published, yet most of his writings were lost in fires in Slonim, during WWI and the Holocaust.
R. Aryeh Leib Lipkin Rabbi of Kretinga (1840-Tishrei 1902), close disciple of his uncle R. Yisrael Lipkin of Salant (who was the brother of his father, R. Yedidia Lipman Lipkin, and brother of his father-in-law R. Yitzchak Lipkin of Žagarė). An outstanding Torah scholar, a foremost Lithuanian kabbalist. He authored many books, and published the books of the Gaon of Vilna (Imrei Noam) together with R. Shraga Meir Leizerowitz. He is also the anonymous author of Klalei Hatchalat HaChochma - study of Kabbalah through the writings of the Arizal, according to the Gaon of Vilna and the Ramchal. The title page of the book states that "for his great righteousness and modesty, he did not want his name to be mentioned". Of his fifteen compositions, only the following were published: Divrei Yedidia on Shir HaShirim and Bereshit, Or HaYom, Shevilei HaMeorot and Chiddushei R. Aryeh Leib, published in Jerusalem by R. Shraga Meir Leizerowitz.
R. Shraga Meir Leizerowitz (1840-1929), a native of Kelm. He was a Tzaddik and kabbalist, close to R. Leibly Chassid of Kelm, foremost Lithuanian kabbalists (the Leshem, R. Aryeh Leib of Kretinga, R. A.Sh. Maharil and others) and to leading disciples of R. Yisrael of Salant. He arrived in England in the early 1890s, and served for many years as rabbi of Chevrat Shas. In his later years, he immigrated to Jerusalem.
7 letters. Size and condition vary.