A letter of ordination ("Yoreh Yoreh"), handwritten and signed by Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibovitz, Head of "Beit Yitzchak" Yeshiva, "For my brother-in-lawג€¦ sharp and truly proficient, dear and astounding in his pure fear of Heaven and straight attributesג€¦", Rabbi Ya'akov Moshe Zimmerman. Slobodka, 1906.
Rabbi Baruch Ber writes; "He has grown up near meג€¦ therefore I speak his praise and qualitiesג€¦ the rabbi's honor is great, he is proficient and fearful of the word of G-dג€¦", and he praises him extraordinarily.
Rabbi Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibovitz (1864-1939) was an outstanding disciple of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin Yeshiva. Son-in-law of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman Av Beit Din of Hlusk. When his father-in-law moved to serve in Kremenchuk, Rabbi Baruch Ber succeeded him in the Hlusk rabbinate. After thirteen years, he was asked to serve as Head of "Knesset Beit Yitzchak" Yeshiva in Slobodka, wandered with his yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchuk (after his father-in-law's death) and to Vilna and finally established it in Kamenets. Counted amongst the greatest Torah teachers of his generation. Author of "Birkat Shmuel" on Talmudical topics. His oral and written Torah are fundamental to deep yeshiva study.
The recipient of the ordination is his brother-in-law and disciple Rabbi Ya'akov Moshe Zimmerman (1881-1961).
Sixteen lines. 23 cm. Stains, tears to folding marks and wear. Pasted on another paper for restoration.

Letter of "Ordination" by "Shlomo Ye'uda Elgazi" - Shlomo Friedlander, to Rabbi Ya'akov Moshe Zimmerman. [Without place or date, apparently around 1912].
Signatures at top of leaf and on margins "Shlomo Ye'uda Elgazi Chacham and Av Beit Din of Satu Mare Keramim".
Shlomo Yehuda Friedlander (1860-1924), born in Beshankovichy in Russia, a strange character of a Rabbi of the Enlightenment Movement. He immigrated to Hungary, settled in "Satu Mare Keramim", a suburb of Satu Mare and proclaimed himself rabbi of that place. He was accustomed to wander throughout Hungary and Galicia and give sermons. Renowned for the deceit of the "forged Yerushalmi", when he very skillfully copied all the sayings of the Yerushalmi Kodshim brought in the books of the Rishonim integrated with sayings of the Yerushalmi of other Sedarim, and then publicized that he found an ancient manuscript of the lost Yerushalmi. This forgery tricked many rabbis and researchers. As part of the pretense, he adopted a fake identity of a descendant of the Spanish Algazi family. After his deception was discovered, he was forced to wander far away to Russia, where he was less known, to give his sermons (see attached material). At that time, he apparently met Rabbi Ya'akov Zimmerman [a Lithuanian Torah genius], and gave him "ordination".
28 cm. Fair condition, stains, tears and wear. Pasted on paper for restoration.

A letter of recommendation by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer for the printing of a book written by Rabbi Yosef Mandelkorn. Jerusalem, Elul, 1949.
"VaYelaket Yosef" (Jerusalem, 1955) is an important compilation of Chassidic thoughts of Rebbes from the Kotzk and Gur dynasties, and this is what Rabbi Isser Zalman writes in his letter: "ג€¦ It is a great privilege to cause him satisfaction and assist him to distribute his Torah novellae which will comfort him from all his travailsג€¦ and will merit the public". At the end of the letter are blessings for the New Year.
22 cm. Official stationery. The whole letter is in his handwriting. Very good condition, file holes.

Two letters from Rabbi Aharon Kotler to Rabbi Yitzchak Bunin. Lakewood, 1956, 1961.
Receipt letters for donations made to the "Beit Midrash Gavoha BeAmerica"- the Lakewood Yeshiva. Typewritten with endings and signatures in the Rosh Yeshiva's handwriting, Gaon Rabbi "Aharon Kotler". The first letter includes a handwritten Shana Tova greeting "Ketiva VeChatima Tovaג€¦for a year of life, blessing and peace".
Rabbi Yitzchak Bunin, recipient of the letters, (1872-1982) one of the oldest USA rabbis, was a friend of Rabbi Aharon Kotler's since their "Kollel" days in Kovna-Slabodka, served in the Rabbinates of Russia and the USA. Authored the "Divrei Yitzchak" books.
Two letters, on official letterhead. Various sizes, good-fair condition, tears and damages on the leaves' edges.

Letter by the Ga'on Rabbi Aryeh Levine, in his typical (square) handwriting along with his signature, to his relative, the physician Dr. Werbin, pleading to treat six-year-old girl "Bracha Lefkowitz who is hospitalized in Hadassah Tel Avivג€¦" [Jerusalem, 1959].
In the letter Rabbi Aryeh refers to the father of the girl, the Ga'on Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, who was forty six years old at the time: "Among the greatest Torah giants of Israel" and ends the letter with blessings for a complete recovery and adds "ג€¦ and may this great merit come from a great person".
11 cm. Good condition, stains, folding marks.