Printed Shanah Tovah cards with lengthy additions in beautiful block writing by Rabbi Aryeh Levin to Mordechai Raziel.
Rabbi Aryeh Levin [1885-1969] was known as ‘Father of the Prisoners’ because during the mandate era (and also afterwards) he would walk every Shabbat to visit members of the underground who were prisoners in the jails, and strengthen them. He would also visit the lepers’ hospitals in Jerusalem, where no one would set foot, not even the patients’ relatives, due to the contagious and incurable disease. But the tzaddik Rabbi Aryeh Levin would go in and sit with the patients and strengthen them, without concern for the risk of contagion. He studied at the Volozhin yeshivah, and was ordained to the rabbinate by Rabbi Chaim Berlin. His only will was that he not be eulogized. His son-in-law was the gaon Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.
R’ Mordechai Raziel , an alumnus of the Lithuanian yeshivahs, was a speaker, an author, and a poet. He established a network of schools in Russia and was a teacher in Jerusalem with many students. He was the father of David Raziel (among the founders of Etze”l) and Esther Raziel (activist in Etze”l and Herut MK).
[2] greeting cards 6×10 cm. Placed in a matching envelope, stamped. Very fine condition.