[1] letterhead of the Agudat Yisrael. 23×28 cm.
Rabbi Mordechai Chaim Kastelintz [1864-1954] merited to see the first Admor of Slonim, the “Yesod Ha’Avoda”. When he was a child, he immigrated with his father to Eretz Yisrael. He lived in Tiberias, was a dayan, and was known as “Rabbi Mottel Dayan”. After the death of the “Beit Avraham” in 1933, his son Rabbi Shlomo Dovid Yehoshua Weinberg was appointed Admor by Rabbi Mordechai Chaim who was a prominent chassid, and he even wrote about this appointment to the chassidim outside of the country. After the Holocaust, during which Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Dovid Yehoshua was killed, the Slonim chassidim asked Rabbi Mordechai Chaim to serve as Admor, but he refused. In 1950, he agreed to serve as Admor on the condition that he was never called by the title.
Filing holes. Fold marks. Very fine condition.