Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Letter by Rebbe Mordechai Yosef of Zlatopol (Skvira)

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Letter from Rebbe Mordechai Yosef Twersky of Zlatopol.[After 1911].
In the letter the Rebbe asks to help in the printing of a second edition of the Chasidic-Kabbalic book "Yesod HaDa'at", first edition of which was published in Warsaw 1912. [This book aroused a polemic due to its expressions against the misnagdim – see Bibliography Institute CD, listing 0108423].
Rebbe Mordechai Yosef of Zlatopol (1862-1928, Encyclopedia of the Chasidut III, page 147-148), son of Rebbe David Twersky of Zlatopol and son-in-law of Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshil of Skvira. (One of the founders of the Skvira Chasidut of our days). His son Rabbi Yitzchak Twersky is the son-in-law of his brother-in-law Rabbi Moshe Dan of Skvira. One of his sons in law is Rebbe Avraham Elimelech of Karlin.
17.5 cm. 12 handwritten lines and signature. Ink-stamp. Fair condition, worn and torn folds. Enforced with tape on the back.
Photocopy of this letter appears in the book "HaChasidut MiDor LeDor" by I. Alfassi.
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