Letter with New Year's Greetings Handwritten and Signed by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, Rosh Yeshivah of Telz. Rare.
Lengthy letter from the gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, Av Beit Din and rosh yeshivah of Telz to Rabbi Eliyahu Botchko, rosh yeshivah of Montreux, Switzerland. Telz, Elul, 1930.
The gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Bloch opens his letter with the blessing, "May [you] be inscribed and sealed in the book of the righteous." In his letter, he makes a request on behalf of his student, Dov Hamburg, one of the best students at the yeshivah, who is not well. The doctors' opinion is that being in Switzerland would improve his health. The name of the young man, Dov Hamburg, is unknown to us, yet would have been expected to have been familiar as one of the best students at the glorious Telz yeshivah, considered one of the most prominent of the European yeshivahs, with well-known personalities among the students there. We cannot know whether it was illness that subdued him, the Nazi blade, or another, unknown reason.
The gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch [1890-1941] was the successor of the rashei yeshivah of the glorious Telz yeshivah: Rabbi Shimon Shkop; his grandfather Rabbi Eliezer Gordon; and his father Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch. The gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch was known as a tremendous gaon from his youth, and already in 1920, during his father's lifetime, he was appointed the main lecturer and head of the yeshivah, as well as the rabbi of Telz. With the Nazi conquest in 1941, he was executed together with hundreds of the yeshivah's students and its rabbis. His lessons were anthologized in Shiurei HaGra"y MiTelz.
[1] official stationery leaf in Hebrew, English and Russian. 22x29 cm, entirely in his hand and with his signature. Fine condition. Aging stains. Fold marks. Tiny tears in the margins and in the folds without damage to text. Taped reinforcements.
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Lengthy letter from the gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, Av Beit Din and rosh yeshivah of Telz to Rabbi Eliyahu Botchko, rosh yeshivah of Montreux, Switzerland. Telz, Elul, 1930.
The gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Bloch opens his letter with the blessing, "May [you] be inscribed and sealed in the book of the righteous." In his letter, he makes a request on behalf of his student, Dov Hamburg, one of the best students at the yeshivah, who is not well. The doctors' opinion is that being in Switzerland would improve his health. The name of the young man, Dov Hamburg, is unknown to us, yet would have been expected to have been familiar as one of the best students at the glorious Telz yeshivah, considered one of the most prominent of the European yeshivahs, with well-known personalities among the students there. We cannot know whether it was illness that subdued him, the Nazi blade, or another, unknown reason.
The gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch [1890-1941] was the successor of the rashei yeshivah of the glorious Telz yeshivah: Rabbi Shimon Shkop; his grandfather Rabbi Eliezer Gordon; and his father Rabbi Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch. The gaon Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch was known as a tremendous gaon from his youth, and already in 1920, during his father's lifetime, he was appointed the main lecturer and head of the yeshivah, as well as the rabbi of Telz. With the Nazi conquest in 1941, he was executed together with hundreds of the yeshivah's students and its rabbis. His lessons were anthologized in Shiurei HaGra"y MiTelz.
[1] official stationery leaf in Hebrew, English and Russian. 22x29 cm, entirely in his hand and with his signature. Fine condition. Aging stains. Fold marks. Tiny tears in the margins and in the folds without damage to text. Taped reinforcements.
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