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Collection of Letters and Recommendations by Rabbis – Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Grodzinski, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Others

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Assorted collection of letters and recommendations given to R. Naftali Hertz Rogol. Lithuania, Jerusalem and elsewhere, 1930s-1980s.


• Letter of recommendation from R. Avraham Tzvi Grodzinski, director of the Ramailes yeshiva in Vilna. Vilna, Elul 1933.
R. Avraham Tzvi Hirsh Grodzinski (ca. 1857-1937), eldest son of R. David Shlomo Rabbi of Iwye, and elder brother of R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. He served for close to fifty years as dean and director of the Ramailes yeshiva in Vilna.
• Letter of recommendation from R. Reuven Chadash, Rabbi of Halshany. Halshany (Lithuania, present-day Belarus), [ca. 1930s].
• Letter from R. Bentzion Bamberger, mashgiach at the Ponevezh yeshiva. Bnei Brak, 1965.
• Letter from Moshe Yoel Walkin (on the stationery of his father R. Shmuel Walkin), with an enclosed photocopy of a letter of recommendation he had received from R. Moshe Feinstein.
• Letter of recommendation from three rabbis calling to assist R. Naftali Hertz Rogol, who was visiting the sick and helping them lay tefillin. At the top of the leaf, letter from R. Binyamin Yehoshua Silber, to which R. Yosef Shalom Elyashiv added several handwritten lines and his signature, and to which R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach appended a handwritten assent with his signature. [Jerusalem], Tamuz 1984. Additional handwritten inscriptions by R. Naftali Hertz Rogol (the recipient of the recommendation).
• Letter of thanks from R. Yaakov Rakovski, rabbi of the Hadassah hospital, in the name of the hospital administration and patients. Jerusalem, Adar II 1984.
• Letter of recommendation from R. Gavriel Ginsburg, Rabbi of the Tiferet Moshe congregation (Kew Gardens, New York), recommending R. Naftali Hertz for his daily lectures. Tamuz 1979.
• Enclosed: • Certificate from R. Shmuel Brom, Rabbi of Luzern, for A. Grossman, declaring him qualified to supervise kosher meat. Luzern, Elul 1929. German.


9 items, including 8 signed letters. Varying size and condition. Some repaired with tape and with open tears affecting text.

Letters and Manuscripts – Rabbis of Lithuania, Poland and Other Countries
Letters and Manuscripts – Rabbis of Lithuania, Poland and Other Countries