Mazal Tov wishes upon the birth of a son, signed by Admor Sinai Halberstam, Av Beit Din of Zmigrod and its environs.
Specifications: [2] pages, letterhead. 22×13 cm. 8 lines in his handwriting, with his signature at the conclusion.
Content: Blessings upon the birth of a son to the chassid Yisrael Menachem. The Admor added a few lines in his handwriting. Includes the blessing, “Nothing bad should continue to befall you,” apparently an allusion to the difficult reality of Polish Jewry at the time, with the surge of anti-Semitism.
Background: Admor Sinai Halberstam was born in 1870. His father was Rabbi Baruch of Gorlitz, the son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. He served as rabbi of Kolshitz and, from 1907, rabbi of Zmigrod. He dedicated himself to G-dly service and was exceptionally well-versed in Torah. He woke up at “chatzot” (midnight) every night to study Zohar until the morning prayers. He moved to Krakow. During the Holocaust he fled to Lemberg and was exiled to Siberia where he died in the Omsk Forests on the 26th of Tammuz, 1941. His sons managed to bury him and erect a monument over his grave. A large volume of his novellae, prepared for print, was lost during the Holocaust.
Condition: Fine-very fine. Fold marks. Stain in the margins, far from the text.