Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead of Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin, to Rabbi Shmuel Salant of Jerusalem.

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Lot 230

BERLIN, CHAIM.

Autograph Letter Signed, written in Hebrew on letterhead of Rosh Yeshiva of Volozhin, to Rabbi Shmuel Salant of Jerusalem.

Concerning charitable funds collected from towns and villages across Russia for the benefit of the Va’ad HaKelali in Jerusalem. R. Chaim requests that individual receipts should be sent to him in Volozhin for subsequent distribution. Two pages.

Paris: 8th Sivan 1892

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $600

R. Chaim Berlin (1832-1913) was the son of Rabbi Naphtali Zevi Judah Berlin (the Netziv), dean of the Volozhin Yeshivah. R. Chaim served as Rabbi of Moscow, later succeeding his father in Volozhin, until the yeshiva’s forced closure. In later years, he served as Jerusalem’s unofficial, senior consulting rabbi. The prominent Yeshivath R. Chaim Berlin of Brooklyn, New York, was founded in his memory.