(Ridva’z, 1845-1913). Autograph Postcard Signed, on letterhead, written in Hebrew to Rabbi Aharon Mendel Cohen of Cairo.

WILOWSKY, YA’AKOV DOVID.

21st Iyar

Tzfat

1913

Concerning the events on Lag B’Omer when certain individuals in Meron ridiculed discussions between the two corresponding rabbis. Also suggests organizing a meeting of rabbis in Jerusalem leading up to Shavu’oth.

R. Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky (commonly known as the "Ridvaz”) held several rabbinical posts including Chief Rabbi of Sluts where he appointed R. Isser-Zalman Meltzer as principal of his Yeshiva. From 1903 to 1905 he lived in America, a period he found dismaying due to broad religious laxity. Afterwards he settled in Safed where he established the yeshiva Torat Eretz Yisrael. He is renowned for his extensive novellae on the Talmud Yerushalmi. A native of Tiberias, R. Aharon Mendel Cohen (1866-1927) served as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Cairo, Egypt.