Letter handwritten by Rabbi Meir Amsal - to the Admor of Stropkov, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam.

Letter handwritten by Rabbi Meir Amsal - to the Admor of Stropkov, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam.
Rabbi Meir Amsel (5667-5767) was the founder and editor of the enlightened Torah journal, for sixty years.

He was born in Neidorf, Slovakia to Avraham Amsel, a shochet in Kashoi, a descendant of the Maharal of Prague and the Bach. He studied with Rabbi Shmuel Engel and Rabbi Avraham Shalom Halberstam, son of Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinova. He married Breindel, daughter of Moshe Beller of Karstir (Hungary). Where he lived after his wedding and was a member of Agudath Israel. After his wife died in World War II, he married her sister. In 1885, he emigrated to the United States, settled in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, and founded the "HaMa'or" journal, in which almost all of the greatest rabbis of the generation wrote, and in 1968 he moved to Boro Park. He died at the age of 100 on the 23rd of Tevet 5767.

Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lifshitz-Halberstam - the Admor of Stropkov (1905-1995), son of his daughter and disciple of Rebbe Shalom Halberstam of Stropkov. Served abroad as Av Beit Din Yablonka and Dayan in Burgas. After the hardships of the Holocaust he served as rabbi in the DP camps in Bomberg and in the Galilot Franconia. In 1949, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Ramle, where he established the "Divrei Chaim" Beit Midrash.

[1] Leaf, Blank official documents. . 5726

Condition; Very Good, folding marks, yellowing paper, tiny holes.