A letter of Shemira (Protection) handwritten and signed by the Holy Rebbe Shalom Eliezer Halberstam. Ujfeherto (Hungary). [1931].
The letter was sent in the 1930s, and this is what is written: "G-d should protect you… I shall bless you with your wife with salvation and deliverance from all bad and misfortune. Your friend, the Holy Shalom Eliezer Halberstam from Sanz".
Attached is a letter from the recepient's son-in-law that testifies that his father-in-law "hid and with total devotion carried the letter on his body throughout the Holocaust years and was very miraculously saved".
Rebbe Shalom Eliezer Halberstam (1862-1944), one of the younger sons of the Rebbe author of Divrei Chaim of Sanz. At the time of his father's death, he was only 14 years old and was educated by his elder brother the Rebbe of Shinova. He married the daughter of his sister and brother-in-law Rebbe Mordechai Dov Twersky Rabbi of Gornostaypol. In 1899, he reached the city of Ujfeherto where he established his court. Renowned as a wonder-worker, many Jews from all over Hungary thronged to his home in Ujfeherto and were delivered from distress through his blessings. During the Holocaust, he did not leave his community and perished with them in Auschwitz in Sivan 1944.
Postcard 15.3 cm. 8 lines written with two types of ink. Fair condition, very worn. On the reverse side is a printed inscription RABBINER S. L. HALBERSTAM - Ujfeherto (Ungarn). And another inscription in the handwriting of his gabai.
Letters of "protection" by Shalom Eliezer Halberstam are rare.