Rare Letter about appointing a Mashgi’ach at the Slabodka yeshiva, handwritten and signed by the Holy Gaon Rabbi Avraham Grodzinsky. Karlsbad, [Av 1937]
"A letter by Rabbi Avraham Grodzinzky to his nephew Rabbi Avraham Pinchas Grodzinsky. Karlsbad, [1937].
[1] leaf, written on both its sides. Lines were added on the circumference of the pages. Handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Grodzinsky. Apparently, the letter was never printed. As described in the letter, Rabbi Grodzinsky was
staying in the spa town of Marienbad for medicinal purposes and from there travelled to Karlsbad to meet with the Rav of petach Tikvah. This letter was written there. In the letter, the writer deals with his nephew’s spiritual situation, the prospect of distributing the Mussar doctrine in Poland, Keren HaMussar and studying Mussar in Eretz Yisroel. The letter also refers to additional family members and rabbis.
Rabbi Avraham Grodzinsky (1884-1944), Student of the Lomzhe and Radin Yeshivas. When he was 17, he went to study at the "Knesses Yisroel" Yeshiva headed by the Saba of Slabodka and became one of his leading disciples. He worked on acquiring Mussar, Tikkun HaMidos and deep study. He would repeat the lessons of the Saba before the students of the yeshiva with great precision and served as the right hand of his educational work. After World War I, Rabbi Avraham joined the board of the yeshiva and started giving lessons to its students. He was sent by the Saba with the first group of students to take care of the yeshiva in the Land of Israel. When he returned to Slabodka in 1927 he became the spiritual director of the yeshiva. After the passing of his wife, he took care of the household and educated his eight orphan children at the same time as caring for the Yeshiva. During World War II, he was active in Kovno with Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky of Vilna, assisting Jewish refugees and organizing an escape route for them. After Lithuania was conquered by the Germans, he continued to study Torah in secret in his house, together with additional rabbis. After the Germans discovered the bunker he was hiding in at the Slabodka Ghetto, he was cruelly beaten and was admitted to the hospital of the ghetto. In Tamuz 1944 the Germans burned the hospital with its residents and hundreds of Jewish patients including Rabbi Avraham were killed on Kiddush Hashem.
Rabbi Avraham Pinchas ben Rabbi Moshe Grodzinsky (1908-1984) was educated as a child in Warsaw by his great father and grandfather. Even before he was Bar Mitzvah, he started studying at the Slabodka Yeshiva and was an enthusiastic disciple of the Saba and the Mashgi’ach of the yeshiva, his uncle, Rabbi Avraham Grodzinsky. Later, he moved to study at the Lomzhe Yeshiva and then returned to Slabodka. In 1923, he immigrated with his parents and brothers to the Land of Israel, settling in Hebron where the yeshiva was founded in 1924. In Av 1929 he got married in Jerusalem and moved to live there. Several days later, his father Rabbi Moshe, his brother Rabbi Yaakov and his sister-in-law Leah were murdered in Hebron, known as the "1929 Pogrom". Rabbi Avraham Pinchas was a Mashgi’ach at the Knesses Yisroel Yeshiva and received his Hora’ah Hora’ah from his rabbis, Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna and Rabbi Shimshon Polansky. He had many disciples and took care of convincing the residents of the transit camps to send their sons to yeshivas. He served as the spiritual Mashgi’ach of the ‘Beis Hillel’ Yeshiva in Bnei Beral, giving Mussar lessons there. He founded the "Beis Avraham" Beis Midrash named after his uncle and authored the series of books "MiBeis Avraham".
Fold marks, restoration of tears along the fold lines, aging stains, wear to the edges of the leaf affecting several words. Fair-good condition.
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