Aerogram with three letters, from R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin, R. Yaakov Kelmes and R. Isser Zalman Meltzer. Jerusalem, Cheshvan [October] 1946.

Addressed to R. Yechezkel Abramsky, head rabbi of the London Beit Din, requesting assistance for the wedding of the orphan granddaughter of R. Gershon Lapidot of Jerusalem.

R. Isser Zalman Meltzer (1870-1953), author of Even HaAzel. A leading Torah scholar of Lithuania and Jerusalem. First yeshiva dean of the Knesset Yisrael yeshiva in Slabodka along with R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein, and later moved to Slutsk with 14 elite disciples, where he established a large yeshiva and subsequently succeeded the Ridvaz as Rabbi of the city. He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1924 and was appointed dean of the Etz Chaim yeshiva. He was also a leader of Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah.

R. Yaakov Kelmes (1880-1953), Rabbi of Moscow, studied in the yeshivas of Vilna and Kovno and ordained by R. Yechiel Michel Epstein, author of Aruch HaShulchan, and others. In 1934 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, and became known as a leading rabbi, a member of the Jerusalem Beit Din and later a member of Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah.

R. Shlomo Yosef Zevin (1886-1978), a leading Chabad rabbi in Russia and Eretz Israel. Ordained by the Rogatchover and Rebbe Shemaryahu Noach Schneersohn of Babruysk, he succeeded his father as Rabbi of Kazimirovo and several other communities. He was a prolific writer, editor of the Talmudic Encyclopedia, and a member of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate Council.

The recipient,
R. Yechezkel Abramsky, author of Chazon Yechezkel (1886-1976), head rabbi of the Beit Din of Slutsk and London, was a friend of R. Isser Zalman from before World War I, when R. Isser Zalman served as Rabbi of Slutsk and R. Abramsky served as Rabbi of Smolyan and Smilavichy. In 1923, when R. Isser Zalman was obliged to flee the Bolsheviks in Russia, he recommended R. Abramsky to serve as his successor as Rabbi in Slutsk.

Aerogram. 4 pages. 19.5 cm. Good condition.