Scribal writing on official stationery, with words added in the Rebbe's handwriting and signature.

Letter of thanks to a donor who contributed money for marriage expenses. The Rebbe blesses him: "you thereby awakened the old love, and may He remember the covenant of the fathers for the children; so may you be blessed with the blessings of heaven above with bountiful success and be full of joy…". At the end of the letter the Rebbe adds in his handwriting a blessing for the New Year: "And may you be blessed with a Ketivah VaChatimah Tovah", and he signs – "Shlomo Halberstam".

[1] leaf, official stationery. 26.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Folds and creases. Stains and light wear. Tears to margins and folds. Open tear on top-left corner, affecting text of letterhead.

Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov (1907-2000), the Divrei Shlomo, prominent rebbe in recent times. Son of Rebbe Ben Tzion Halberstam, the Kedushat Tzion (son of the first Rebbe of Bobov, Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam, grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz). In 1931, his father moved from Bobov to Trzebinia, and appointed him as rabbi in his place in Bobov. Rebbe Shlomo assisted his father in directing the dozens of branches of the large network of yeshivas "Etz Chaim – Bobov" in Galicia. After the Holocaust, he reached the United States where he re-established the Bobov Chassidut. He led his followers for over fifty years, founding communities, yeshivas and Torah institutions in the United States and worldwide (Israel, Belgium and England). Bobov Chassidut is one of the largest Chassidic communities in the world today, numbering tens of thousands of families. His books include Kerem Shlomo, Noam Shlomo, Divrei Shlomo and Chochmat Shlomo.