Rare brachot for wellbeing and nachat, and for a Chag Pesach, handwritten by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech of Karlin

Rare brachot for wellbeing and nachat, and for a Chag Pesach, handwritten by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech of Karlin

Letter signed by the Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Perlov of Karlin. A response to a kvitl sent to him by Rabbi Aharon Haltovsky, “from the Avrech Reb Menachem Mendel ben Yuta Feiga…”. The Admor blesses him with health (refuah shlema) and a good Pesach holiday…”. Size: 12.5x20cm. Good condition, creases and stains from tape.

The Admor Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Ferlov of Karlin (1892-1943) was the son of Rabbi Yisrael of Stolin and son-in-law of his uncle Rabbi Mordechai Yosef of Zaltipoli. After his father died, his father’s chassidim wanted to crown him in accordance with his father’s wishes, but he refused, and only after pressure from his father-in-law and Rabbi Yisrael of Chortkov did he agree to be appointed as Admor in Karlin. He established the Ohr Yisrael yeshiva in Luninitz (Belarus) and Beit Aharon in Jerusalem, which still exists today. His student, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Beiderman of Lalov, expressed that he was the “Baal Shem Tov of his generation.” When the Nazis took over Karlin he was in Israel (he visited 4 times during his life), and despite the pleading of his chassidim he returned to Karlin in order not to abandon them and was sadly murdered in a kiddush hashem during the Shoah.