Letter to the United States philanthropist R. Dov Manischewitz and his wife Nesha, regarding building a house generously dedicated by his wife to the Benot Yerushalayim society, signed by Jerusalem Torah scholars.

Signatures of: R. "Yitzchak Blazer" – with his stamp; R. Zalman HaKohen Rivlin; R. Gedaliah Nachman Broder; R. Asher Ze'ev Yelinsky; R. Yehudah Leib son of R. Reuven [Menuchin]; R. Meir Adler [son-in-law of Rebbe Elazar Mendel Biderman of Lelov]; R. Moshe Ze'ev Zilberman; R. Elimelech Perlman [an important activist and leader of the Chassidic community of Jerusalem]; R. Dov Ber Abramowitz; R. Menachem Mendel Rabin [a head of the Chassidic settlement in Jerusalem]; and R. Yitzchak Eliezer Charlap.

R. Yitzchak Blazer – known as R. Itzele Peterburger (1837-1907), prominent disciple of R. Yisrael Salanter, and disseminator of the Musar movement in the Lithuanian yeshivot. Leading Torah scholar of his times. At the instruction of R. Salanter he began to serve as Rabbi of St. Petersburg in 1862; in 1878 he resigned and moved to Kovno, and headed the Kovno Kollel starting in 1880, a position he also resigned to deliver Musar sermons in the Knesset Yisrael yeshiva in Slabodka. In 1904 he immigrated to Eretz Israel, where he directed the Vilna Kollel in Jerusalem and headed the Vaad HaKlali of charitable institutions in Jerusalem.

[1] leaf, official stationery. 29 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear, tears and folds. Verso repaired with paper.

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