Letter by Rabbi Shaul Yehuda Leib HaCohen – Rabbi of Chabad Chassidism and the Hebron Ashkenazi Community

Letter by Rabbi Shaul Yehuda Leib HaCohen – Rabbi of Chabad Chassidism and the Hebron Ashkenazi Community
Letter of New Year wishes and responsa on Hilchot Edut, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Shaul Yehuda Leib HaCohen, Rabbi in Hebron. Sent to Jerusalem to Rabbi Shmuel Salant. [Hebron, ca. 1880s-1890s]. Rabbi Shaul Yehuda Leib HaCohen Libin, a Chabad Chassid, served in the rabbinate of several Russian cities and in the Konstantinograd (Krasnograd) community. Throughout the year while serving in the rabbinate, he would study and teach in the Beit Midrash all day and would only desert Torah study to fulfill a mitzvah such as peace-making or for performing a chessed or ruling promoting truth and peace. In 1887, in his senior years he immigrated to Eretz Israel (following the advice of Rebbe S. B. of Lubavitch) and served in the rabbinate of the Chabad Chassidim in Hebron together with Rabbi Shimon Menashe Chaikin, elder Rabbi of Hebron [at the time he was 110 years old]. Rabbi Chaikin appointed Rabbi Shaul Leib, a member of his Beit Din and told the members of the Chabad community that anything Rabbi Libin does for the Kollel Chabad in Hebron, he accepts and approves, as if he himself performed that deed. In the last year of his life, Rabbi Shaul Leib left the Hebron rabbinate and moved to Jerusalem where he died, in Tevet 1893 in the lifetime of Rabbi Chaikin [who died in Sivan 1893 at the age of 116]. After the restoration of the Har HaZetim cemetery by Kollel Chabad in recent years, his tombstone was discovered, with the following inscription: "Here is buried the elderly Rabbi Shaul Yehuda Leib HaCohen Rabbi of the Holy City of Hebron, died the 3rd of Tevet 1893". Leaf, 23 cm. More than 30 handwritten lines. Good condition.