(“The Tzaddik of Jerusalem,” 1885-1969). Autograph Letter Signed, in Hebrew in his characteristic beautiful hand, written to Rabbi Yisrael Isser Shapiro.

LEVIN, ARYEH

Sunday of Parshat Vayeshev

Jerusalem

1946

A lengthy personal letter on the occasion of the marriage of Rabbi Shapiro’s son R. Raphael, the namesake of his grandfather, Rosh Yeshiva of Etz Chaim Volozhin. * With: A postscript by Rebbetzin Tzipporah Levin.

Rabbi Levin was the mashgiach of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer’s yeshiva Etz Chaim in Jerusalem. He wass renowned as one who ministered with great compassion to those on the fringes of society. Rabbi Shapiro was the son of R. Raphael Shapiro (1837-1921), a great Lithuanian rosh yeshiva, who was also the son-in-law of the Netzi’v, and the father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik.