RABBI YEHUDA LEIBISH HALPERN (ca. 1851-1929) – REBBE OF...

RABBI YEHUDA LEIBISH HALPERN (ca. 1851-1929) – REBBE OF BREZHAN & RABBI AHRON HALPERN OF BREZHAN (BRZEZANY) (ca. 1880-1925) – LETTER TO HIS NEPHEW RABBI YOEL MOSKOWITZ (1907-1980) REBBE OF SHOTZ.

New Year’s greetings from the revered Rebbe of Brezhan – Rabbi Avraham Zarach Aryeh Yehuda Leibish Halpern, and from his son Rabbi Ahron of Brezhan. Letters of the Rebbe of Brezhan are very scarce.

Rabbi Avraham Zarach Aryeh Yehuda Leibish Halpern of Brezhan (Brzezany, Galicia), son of Rabbi Meshulam Feivish and son-in-law of Rabbi Yoel of Shotz. Rebbe in Brezhan in succession to his ancestors. During WWI he escaped from the battlefront in Eastern Galicia to Prague, and then settled in Lvov. Author of Imrei Yehuda.

Rabbi Ahron Halpern of Brezhan, son of Rabbi Avraham Zarach Aryeh Yehuda Leibish of Brezhan
and son-in-law of Rabbi Meir of Shotz.

Rabbi Yoel Moskowitz of Shotz, son of Rabbi Meir and son-in-law of his relative the famous Rabbi
Shalom Moskowitz of Shotz – London. Shotzer Rebbe in Manchester, London, Montreal and Jerusalem.

[1] 14x22 cm. Good condition, stained, slight tears at edges.