A Letter in the Handwriting and With the Signature of Rabbi Moshe Kliers, Rabbi of Tiberius, 1914.

A letter in the handwriting and with the signature of Rabbi Moshe Kliers.

Rabbi Moshe Kliers (1876-1934) was the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Tiberius. He married the daughter of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Kastelnitz, one of the prominent Slonim chassidim in the city of Tiberius, and resultantly moved to the city and became a Slonim chassid. At the invitation of the Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel Weinberg of Slonim, who wanted him to teach his son, he travelled to study Torah in Slonim for several years. In 1900 he established the Or Torah yeshiva at the gravesite of Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNes, which he headed until his death. He went to the yeshiva every Sunday and stayed there until Thursday. One of his sons, Chaim Elisha, was murdered in the 1929 massacres. At the end of his life he became sick, and on the doctors’ orders moved to live in the Kiryat Shmuel neighborhood. In 1933 he became ill and sent a letter to Rabbi Asher Zev Verner who was in America asking him to come to Tiberius and accept the position of Chief Rabbi of the city. Died on 23 Shevat 5794 [1934].

Size: 20 x 13 cm.

Condition: Good condition.