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Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, to Rabbi Chaim Yosef Jaffe – About Rabbi Mohilever's Trip ...

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Letter Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, to Rabbi Chaim Yosef Jaffe – About Rabbi Mohilever's Trip to Palestine and Rabbi Jaffe's Role as Orator of the Chovevei Zion Movement – 1890
A letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever, to Rabbi Chaim Yosef Jaffe. Monday, the tenth of Nissan 5650 [1890].
At the beginning of the letter, Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever addresses his planned trip to Palestine and responds to Rabbi Chaim Yosef Jaffe's request to let his son join the trip and to help him pay for the travelling expenses. Later in the letter, Rabbi Mohilever tells Rabbi Jaffe that he will support him in his role as orator and writes: "I cannot inform you as to the future leadership... since I myself do not know… on my part, of course, I will make efforts that his honor maintains his position".
At the end of the letter, Rabbi Mohilever mentions a man who impersonated an emissary of Chovevei Zion ("From the preacher who calls himself an emissary of Chovevei Zion, it is an unconscionable act, to publish such a complete lie. And such a man is by no means worthy of being a public preacher") and addresses Rabbi Jaffe's suggestion for a match for his granddaughter.
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever (1824-1898) was a rabbi and public leader, one of the founders of the Chovevei Zion Movement and pioneer of religious Zionism. In 1890, he travelled from Odessa to Palestine at the head of a delegation of Chovevi Zion which aimed to examine the state of the settlements in Palestine (the trip to which he refers to in this letter).
The addressee of the letter, Rabbi Chaim Yosef Jaffe ("The Maggid of Vekshne") was one of the first preachers of the Chovevi Zion Movement and an orator on behalf of Chovevei Zion in Vilnius.
[1] leaf, 20.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Stains. Small closed and open tears along edges. Pencil notations on verso.

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