(Third Grand Rebbe of Vishnitz, 1860-1936). Autograph Letter Signed, stamped and written in Hebrew to R. Meshulam Roth.

HAGER, YISROEL.

Vizhnitz (Vyzhnytsia)

1921

“I cannot fulfill your request as I have already granted it to an earlier supplicant.” Sends blessings including the hope that the recipient’s Torah study will be accomplished with ease of mind.

The Ahavas Yisroel, as he was known, was the first-born son of the Imrei Boruch (1845-1892). He married the daughter of R. Meir Horowitz of Dzhikov and following the death of his father, became Rebbe of Vishnitz, greatly expanding its following. Thirteen years after his death, he was reinterned in Eretz Israel.