” — May your mother achieve a complete recovery, all the members of your household, your mother-in-law as well as your sister and the whole family. Your friend who seeks your well-being, good and success, Yisrael.” (Some of the blessings from the ‘Beit Yisrael’)
Rare letter loaded with blessings for healing and success. The entire letter [approximately 50 words!] is handwritten and signed by the sacred Jew, the Admo”r Rabbi Yisrael Alter of Gur, considered sacred by all factions of the Jewish people.
This letter is addressed to a special Gur Chassid, Rabbi Ephraim Shraga Silverberg, son of the Peterburg Rebbe, whom the ‘Beit Yisrael referred to as “my dear friend, ” in honor of the birth of his grandson. It is astonishing how most of this letter is filled with sacred words of blessing.
The letter is full of blessings of congratulations and healing. Unusually, the Rebbe repeats each blessing, which symbolizes multiplicity and infinite abundance: “Give, go back and give again!” The rebbe repeats his “mazal tov” blessing twice, at the beginning of the letter and its end. He also connects the birth of the grandson with the blessing for recovery. “May Hashem bless you and sustain you, in fulfillment of the blessing by our sages: ‘A male child born into the family brings recovery.'” The Rebbe then redoubles the blessing for healing, like the mazal tov blessing – not by just doubling it, but by detailing each and every member of the family! “May your mother achieve a complete recovery, all the members of your household, your mother-in-law and the whole family”!
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of Rabbi Yisrael Alter .
It is told that manuscripts by rabbinic leaders throughout the generations, or even just their signatures, are used as amulets for protection, healing and success. How much more so a manuscript by one of the leading tzaddikim of the previous generation, who was renowned as a wonder-worker whose word never went unfulfilled, who blesses, doubles and triples these ever-important blessings, for the addressee and his entire family. Blessings of “mazal tov”, “healing” and “success.” (Elder Chassidim have a tradition that a blessing for “success” includes all blessings within it.)
[1] leaf paper. Approximately 7×18 cm.
Very fine condition.