Auction 58 - Rare and Important Items
Autograph Letter Signed by R. Eliyahu Guttmacher, Rabbi of Greiditz (Graetz)
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Autograph letter with the full signature of R. Eliyahu Guttmacher. [Greiditz, ca. 1850s-1860s].
Family letter [in Yiddish] sent to his eldest son, R. Zvi Guttmacher - "G-d should be with you my beloved son R. Z. and my dear daughter-in-law Reina". The letter notifies the recipient of a family joyous occasion, apparently in the family of his son "Shlomo Bunam" who is mentioned in the letter. The letter is signed: "From your father, Eli' son of R.S. here in Greiditz".
R. Eliyahu Guttmacher Rabbi of Greiditz (1796-1875), disciple of R. Akiva Eiger, served as Rabbi of Pleszew until 1851, thereafter moved to serve in the Greiditz rabbinate. His eldest son, R. Zvi Hirsh, succeeded him as Rabbi of Pleszew. Famed as a holy kabbalist, in his senior years his name spread throughout the Jewish world as a wonder-worker with amazing stories of the great miracles and deliverance attained by the blessings of "der Greidetzer Tsaddik".
After his son, R. Zvi Hirsh (in 1871) died childless, his father published his son's books Nachalat Zvi and Ken Meforeshet (Lviv, 1873). In the introduction to Ken Meforeshet, R. Eliyahu promises: "If someone seeks deliverance from G-d… he should study Mishnah with the Rav (Bartenura) and with Tosfot Yom Tov and with my son's commentary and then stand and pray in any language he knows… and detail his request so he will be answered…".
Leaf, 20.5 cm. 10 autograph lines. Good condition.
Family letter [in Yiddish] sent to his eldest son, R. Zvi Guttmacher - "G-d should be with you my beloved son R. Z. and my dear daughter-in-law Reina". The letter notifies the recipient of a family joyous occasion, apparently in the family of his son "Shlomo Bunam" who is mentioned in the letter. The letter is signed: "From your father, Eli' son of R.S. here in Greiditz".
R. Eliyahu Guttmacher Rabbi of Greiditz (1796-1875), disciple of R. Akiva Eiger, served as Rabbi of Pleszew until 1851, thereafter moved to serve in the Greiditz rabbinate. His eldest son, R. Zvi Hirsh, succeeded him as Rabbi of Pleszew. Famed as a holy kabbalist, in his senior years his name spread throughout the Jewish world as a wonder-worker with amazing stories of the great miracles and deliverance attained by the blessings of "der Greidetzer Tsaddik".
After his son, R. Zvi Hirsh (in 1871) died childless, his father published his son's books Nachalat Zvi and Ken Meforeshet (Lviv, 1873). In the introduction to Ken Meforeshet, R. Eliyahu promises: "If someone seeks deliverance from G-d… he should study Mishnah with the Rav (Bartenura) and with Tosfot Yom Tov and with my son's commentary and then stand and pray in any language he knows… and detail his request so he will be answered…".
Leaf, 20.5 cm. 10 autograph lines. Good condition.