Letter handwritten by Rabbi Meir Amsal - to the Admor of Stropkov,

Letter handwritten by Rabbi Meir Amsal - to the Admor of Stropkov,
Rabbi Meir Amsal; (1907-1967) was the founder and editor of the enlightened Torah journal, for sixty years.

He was born in Neidorf, Slovakia to Avraham Amsel, a shochet in Kashoi, a descendant of the Maharal of Prague and the Bach. He studied with Rabbi Shmuel Engel and Rabbi Avraham Shalom Halberstam, son of Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinova. He married Breindel, daughter of Moshe Beller of Karstir (Hungary). Where he lived after his wedding and was a member of Agudath Israel. After his wife died in World War II, he married her sister. In 1885 he emigrated to the United States, settled in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, and founded the journal "The Light", in which almost all of the greatest rabbis of the generation wrote, and in 1968 he moved to the Boro Park neighborhood. He died at the age of 100 on the 23rd of Tevet 5767.

Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam: Rebbe of Stropkov (1905-1995), son of his daughter and disciple of the Admor Rabbi Shalom Halberstam of Stropkov. Served abroad as Av Beit Din Yablonka and Dayan in Burgas. After the hardships of the Holocaust he served as rabbi in the DP camps in Bomberg and in the Galilot Franconia. In 1949, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Ramle, where he established the "Divrei Chaim" Beit Midrash.

[1] leaves, double sided. Blanc Official Documents. 1916.

Condition; Very Good, folding marks.