Rabbi Mordechai Kopstein (1875-1954). Autograph Letter Signed on the Chofetz Chaim’s letterhead, written in Hebrew to Rabbi David Potash. Hebrew.

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $300

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author

(CHOFETZ CHAIM).

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8th Ellul

Place

Radun, Poland

Publication

1935

Description

This letter accompanied a rabbinic essay from a Torah scholar referred to here as “HaGaon HaTzadik HaGri’m Shlita.”

summary

Rabbi Kopstein, the rabbi of Radun, was the secretary of the Chofetz Chaim’s Yeshiva. Rabbi Potash of Jaffa (d. 1946) was a confidante of the Chofetz Chaim. He had been the person the Chofetz Chaim turned to in order to procure immigration papers for him to Eretz Israel in 1925. (A trip that was never made).

Punch-holes. One page. 4to.

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