Rav Zalman Sorotzkin - semichah letter
Semichah (ordination) letter written for R’ Shmuel Aharon Szczedrowitzki (Moreshet auction 48, lot 115).
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Letters
Letters, approbations and handwritten correspondence, all in one place. Categories within the letters will come later, as the collection grows.
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Sorotzkin
Rav Zalman Sorotzkin and Rav Elchanan Wasserman - eight letters
Eight letters to Rav Zeidel Siemiatycki, 1930s (Winner’s auction 141, lot 135).
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Rav Zalman Sorotzkin - letter to R’ Dr. Hillel Medalia
(Winner’s auction 152, lot 167).
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Rav Elchonon Sorotzkin - "Birchas Ach"
Letter to his brother Rav Eliezer Sorotzkin on his seventieth birthday (Kovetz Sheva Simchos 5745, pp. 11-13).
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Rav Eliezer Sorotzkin’s personal archive
Winner’s auction 135 (May 2022), lots 154-155: roughly 120 letters from rabbis, rashei yeshivos and public figures, and some 300 documents from his personal archive. Catalog images.
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Sharin
Rav Chaim Sharin - handwritten letter
Rav Chaim Sharin’s ksav yad about a sefer. First image: a photo emailed to the family in 2016. Second: a later photograph of the letter from an American library collection; the institution is still being identified.
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The Illui of Poltava - letter from Korets
Rav Yoel Sharin, the Illui of Poltava (Zvhil) - handwritten letter, Korets, ca. 1923, on Or Torah letterhead (Tiferet auction 20, lot 13).
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R’ Yisrael Yitzchak Komin of Smila - deathbed letter
An associate of the Illui of Poltava: his deathbed letter to R’ Avraham Kalmanowitz, printed in Keren Ohr (Komin, 1946).
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The Poltava Illui memorial and the 1931 Warsaw rabbinic gathering
Published page from Beis Yaakov journal, no. 180-181 (5735).
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Greenberg
Rav Boruch Ber Leibowitz - letter for Chaim Dov Rinberg (Greenberg)
A letter of introduction for his talmid Chaim Dov Rinberg (Greenberg) of Jonava, on Kamenetz yeshiva letterhead. Third image: typed transcription (17 Adar 5688).
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Rudensky, Heiman & Riger
Rav Aharon Kotler - letter
From the Ari Rudensky family collection (forwarded Sept. 2026).
Rav Aharon Kotler - letter (second scan)
From the Ari Rudensky family collection.
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Rav Aharon Kotler - additional letter
From the Ari Rudensky family collection.
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Kollel Kowno - blessing letter
From the Ari Rudensky family collection.
Letter to Rav Zilberberg of Pittsburgh
Concerning Chemdas Binyomin. From the Ari Rudensky family collection.
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Hirshovitz הירשוביץ
Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzinski - letter of praise for Meitav Higayon
Michtav tehilla for Meitav Higayon by Rav Yitzchak Eizik הירשוביץ, Vilna, 1923 (HebrewBooks 33705).
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