Letter of Recommendation by Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, Author of Arugot HaBosem

Letter of Recommendation by Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, Author of Arugot HaBosem
Autograph letter signed by R. "Moshe son of Amram Greenwald". Chust, 1902.
Recommendation for R. Meir Eichler of Jerusalem, native of the Humenné community in Hungary who visited a spa town for health reasons. He praises R. Meir who came to his home: "I have found in him that which I love…He is a very dear person…and needed to travel for medical purposes to use the spas abroad for his cure…I request from all my acquaintances to receive him graciously…".
R. Moshe Ben-Amram Greenwald (1853-1910, HaChatam Sofer Ve'Talmidav p. 521) was a leading Hungarian Torah scholar and head of yeshiva. Disciple of R. Menachem Katz Prostitz of Deutschkreutz (Zelem) and disciple of the Ktav Sofer in Pressburg. He headed a yeshiva in his hometown Cherna in his youth, later serving in the rabbinate of several Hungarian communities and from 1893 as Rabbi of Chust. Although he studied in the yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer, he was affiliated with Chassidism and would travel to the Belz and Siget rebbes. He was renowned for his compositions on halacha and aggadah titled Arugat HaBosem. His son was R. Ya'akov Yechizkiya Greenwald, Av Bet Din and Rebbe of Papa, and his grandson is R. Yosef Greenwald of Papa, who established the Papa Chassidism in America after the Holocaust.
The Chassidic Rabbi, R. Meir Eichler of Jerusalem, a prominent disciple of the author of "Arugot HaBosem" and of R. Efraim Fishel Sofer Rabbi of Hajdúnánás. One of the founders of the "Torat Avot" Yeshiva in Hebron. A well known Chassid, close to the Siget Chassidic dynasty (In 1946, during the visit of the Satmar Rebbe in Jeruselem, he visited R. Eicler in his home) and to R. Motele of Rachmastrivka. Among his descendants are famous families of Chassidim, Rabbis and public figures (including the Israeli knesset members Meir Porush and R. Israel Eichler).
Leaf, 21 cm. Approximately 17 handwritten lines. Fair condition, restored wear and tears.