Picture of the great Rabbi Mordechai Rosenblatt who was the Av Beit Din of the congregation of Oshmiana, and is now in Slonim. Warsaw, 1906.
Specifications: 24×30 cm. Original print of the painting. Stuck onto bristol paper.
Background: Rabbi Mordechai Rosenblatt, known as Rabbi Mordechai of Oshmiana after the city of Oshmiana adjacent to Vilna. Became famous in his lifetime as a righteous man and a miracle worker, and many Lithuanian Jews sought him out to ask for his blessing. There were even notices in newspapers regarding the times for receiving the public in his house. As a result, his picture was also hung in Jews’ houses during his lifetime. This was a unique phenomenon in Lithuania, where it was not common to throng to miracle workers. He wrote the well known ‘Iggeret HaChalom, ‘ a wondrous letter which he wrote to Rabbi Pinchas Michael Groissleit, in which he writes that it was revealed to him in a dream that he is a descendant of a person who slapped Mahari Ben Lev across the face after he lost in a court case [350 years ago], and that he must correct this and study his books. Later in the letter he writes that his wife’s life is in danger as a result. Some of his Torah thoughts were printed by his students in the book Hadrat Mordechai . Extensive material is enclosed.
Condition: Fine. Folding marks.