Very beautiful letter dealing with a range of important historic topics. Entirely handwritten and signed (in an interesting way) by the mussar giant, the gaon and tzaddik Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, author of Michtav M’Eliyahu . Gateshead, 1945.
Letter sent just after the end of the Holocaust, in which the gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler discusses several important religious issues of the period, as was his way, when there were no others who would take on this burden. He led the famous Gateshead Kollel [this letter is written on its stationery] where gedolei haTorah in England studied. He arranged a hostel “for children who could be saved from the influence of the freethinkers” and he moved the She’erit Yisrael yeshivah from the Bergen Belsen DP camp to London, the Land of Israel and America. Rabbi Dessler signs off in this letter in a unique way: “The small sheep, the lowest of the low, known as Eliy’ Eliezer Dessler.”
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler and the recipient, Rabbi Dr. Hillel Medaliah .
[2] pp, 20 cm. Gateshead Kollel official stationery. Entirely handwritten and signed by the Michtav MiEliyahu, with the original stamped and postmarked envelope.
Very fine condition. Fold marks.