![Delivery Note, signed by Rebbe Yaakov Leiser (Yankele) of Pshevorsk. London-Antwerp, May [Sivan] 1980. English.
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Chair of Elijah – Document Signed by Rebbe Yaakov Leiser of Pshevorsk – 1980 – Signature in Latin Characters
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Delivery Note, signed by Rebbe Yaakov Leiser (Yankele) of Pshevorsk. London-Antwerp, May [Sivan] 1980. English.
Delivery note of the Furnolin Company of London, confirming receipt of a Chair of Elijah sent to the Rebbe's Beit Midrash in Antwerp. On the edges of the leaf appears the Rebbe's signature in Latin characters: "Leiser", next to the date of receipt.
This Chair of Elijah serves to this day as the seat for the sandak during circumcisions held in the Beit Midrash in Antwerp.
Rebbe Yaakov Leiser (Reb Yankele) of Pshevorsk (1906-1999), second rebbe of the Pshevorsk dynasty, disciple of the yeshiva of R. David Tevele of Dukla (the Shefa Chaim of Sanz-Klausenburg studied there with him simultaneously). He was intimately close with his teacher, Rebbe Chanah Halberstam of Kolshitz, a fact he requested to have engraved on his tombstone.
Between 1931-196 he served as Rabbi of Jaśliska, later following his father-in-law Rebbe Itzikel of Pshevorsk and accompanying him on all his journeys. During the Holocaust they were sent to the Siberian wilderness. After the war he served as a dayan on agunah issues. In 1977 he was appointed rebbe, succeeding his father-in-law in Antwerp, Belgium. He was an extraordinary Torah scholar with wide-ranging knowledge, a lover of the Jewish people whose blessings brought salvation to many. He was a teller of Chassidic tales, which he transmitted carefully without addition or omission.
[1] leaf. Approx. 25 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Creases and minor tears.
Letters – Chassidut
Letters – Chassidut