Historic letter, sharp and important unlike any other, by the gaon Rabbi Aharon HaKohen, son of the greatest Kohen of his time, the Chafetz Chaim. New York, 1947.
The letter deals with very sensitive topics regarding the rights to print the Mishneh Berurah books- considered the most important Torah sefarim written in recent centuries! We cannot go into more detail in public; the L-rd’s honor demands the matter be hidden.
The letter also deals with an another important topic: The exaggerations in stories of tzaddikim, matters that the heart and mind refuse to accept. Rabbi Aharon expands in his letter about his father’s biographers who wrote untruths (to put it mildly) about his father’s life: “I hereby notify and publicize that I read these little books and found nothing true there about my father ztz”l’s life and enterprises.” He even personally attacks the books’ author – named in this letter – who presents himself as a disciple of the Chafetz Chaim’s. Rabbi Aharon reveals what his father told him about that same author who pretended to be a disciple of the Chafetz Chaim’s, and what Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky of Vilna said about him.
This letter was sent to the editor of the newspaper HaDerech . Rabbi Aharon demands that he publish the letter in his newspaper and also forward it to Rabbi Glickman-Porush, editor of Kol Yisrael to publish in his newspaper as well. We don’t know if this sharp letter was indeed published, and it’s possible they abstained from publishing it due to the names of the rabbis that appear in it, and the deep insult to them in this letter.
Rabbi Aharon HaKohen , the Chafetz Chaim’s youngest son, lived in the United States, was then a rabbi in Montreal, and passed away in his youth, in 1957.
[2] pp, official stationery as son of the Chafetz Chaim and synagogue rabbi. Approximately 22×26 cm. Fine condition. Filing perforations. Fold marks, tiny tear in the in the fold without damage or lack.