“May Hashem grant that your heart rejoice with your family with much nachat and expansiveness, and all goodness, selah . With blessings for salvation among the Jewish people, the small one, Menachem Mendel …”
Beautiful letter, entirely handwritten and signed by the wonder-worker, the Admo”r Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horowitz, av beit din of Melitz and environs – direct descendant of the sacred rebbe, Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz. The Rebbe accepts responsibility to study mishnahs in memory of her husband. Melitz, Sunday of Vayera, with no year indicated. Letters from him are extraordinarily rare.
The letter is addressed to the benefactress Mrs. Feiga Garfinkel. The Rebbe expresses his appreciation for her support, and mentions recollections of her recently departed husband. The rebbe requests that his benefactress inform him of the date of her husband’s yahrtzeit, as he would like to commemorate it by studying mishnahs in his memory. The rebbe completes his letter with blessings in Yiddish: “May Hashem grant that your heart rejoice with your family with much nachat and expansiveness, and all goodness, selah . With blessings for salvation among the Jewish people, the small one, Menachem Mendel …”
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the Admo”r Rabbi Menachem Mendel Horowitz of Melitz, may his blood be avenged .
[1] postal postcard, 13 cm. Official stationery. Entirely handwritten and signed by the Admo”r.
Fine condition. Fold marks. Adhesion in the margins, from the time of writing.