Letter from the Admor Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter of Gur, about the Sfat Emet yeshivah . Gur [late 1920s?]
The letter concerns assistance getting a permit for the Sfat Emet yeshivah in Jerusalem. The Sfat Emet Yeshivah was founded in 1925, and was one of the first chassidic yeshivahs in the Land of Israel. The letter was sent to ‘Rabbi Pinchas Cohen,’ [apparently] Rabbi Pinchas Cohen, rabbi of Ansbach, one of the founders of Agudat Israel in Poland, and a leader of the International Agudat Israel, whom the Admor highly extolls.
Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter [1866-1948], the author of Imrei Emet of Gur, firstborn son of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Alter, the Sfat Emet. He served as Admor of the Gur chassidut and one of the leaders of chareidi Jewry as a whole for 43 years. In his day, Gur chassidut reached its peak. There are those who estimate that the number of his chassidim before the Holocaust at more than one hundred thousand.
[1] double leaf, ink on official paper. 14×21 cm. Entirely in his handwriting and with his signature.
Very fine condition. Professional restoration in the margins.