Joseph Ber Soloveitchik/ MK Moshe Shapira.

ר’ יוסף בער סולובייצ’יק/ח”כ משה שפירא.

Autograph letter, dated spring 1962 written to MK Moshe Shapira congratulating him upon his sixtieth birthday. Rav Soloveitchik writes that he learned of the birthday through reading the newspaper, and expresses heartfelt words of friendship and good wishes in honor of the occasion. Continues with the importance of his Shapira’s position of the behalf of the Jewish people and the State of Israel, which provides an important glimpse of Rav Soloveitchik’s view on the destiny of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
R. Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (1903 -1993) was Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchanan (RIETS) at Yeshiva University. He was a scion of the renowned Soloveitchik family, and was named after his great grandfather the Bais Halevy. He was known as both a great Talmudic scholar and original thinker, and had a profound influence of the development of the Orthodox Jewish community in the U.S. in the post Holocaust era.
30 by 19 cm. Excellent condition. Filing holes, slightly affecting signature, professionally restored.
Opening bid $800