"He was Certainly Purified from all Sin in the Suffering of Gehinnom." Chilling Letter from R' Avraham Yoffen about ...

"He was Certainly Purified from all Sin in the Suffering of Gehinnom." Chilling Letter from R' Avraham Yoffen about R' Gershon Liebman

Chilling letter, rare in its length, from the renowned gaon and mussar personality Rabbi Avraham Yoffen, rosh yeshivah of Novardok and son-in-law of the Alter of Novardok. Brooklyn, c. 1945-1950.

This letter is addressed to the renowned rescue activist R' Yitzchak Tzvi Siemiatycki, one of the rashei yeshivah of Torat Emet (Schneider) in London, with important information about the spiritual activism for Holocaust survivors.

A good part of the letter is dedicated to his primary disciple - the gaon Rabbi Gershon Liebman, rosh yeshivah of Ohr Yosef in Bergen-Belsen and then in Chelsheim. Rabbi Avraham Yoffen held the world of him, and saw him as one of the most important figures in the activist organization. Quoting select and chilling passages: "R' Gershon Liebman is not of the ordinary sort, even among rabbis ... R' Gershon Kovler [as he was called] is exceptional in our yeshivah with respect to his devotion; he is a tremendous ba'al mussar ... I was truly taken that all his desires are for Heavenly matters. What about his physical needs? His body can seriously be considered spiritual, as he has certainly been purified of all sin with the suffering of Gehinnom. So why does he not think of doing kindness to his soul? This attests to the very essence of who R' Gershon is ..." Adding anything more would be superfluous.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of Rabbi Avraham Yoffen and Rabbi Gershon Liebman.

[2] pp, official stationery. 28 cm.

Moderate condition. Fold marks, aging stains and slight wear in the margins. Filing perforations.