Letter from Admor Yehuda Aryeh Perlow, From the First Admorim in America, to His Brother Rabbi Shlomo Chaim of Bolekhiv
A handwritten letter from the Admor Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Perlow of Novominsk to his brother the Admor Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Perlow of Bolekhiv, written in the year 1937.
The letter is full of encouragement and includes a request to his brother that he take care of his physical well-being. On the other side of the page is a letter from Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh and his wife to his daughter and son-in-law.
Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Perlow of Novominsk (1878 – 19 61) was the son of Rabbi Yaakov Perlow of the Neshkiz dynasty and married to the daughter of the Admor Rabbi David Twersky of Makarov of the Chernobyl dynasty. He received semicha from Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik as well as from the Chelkas Yoav. In 1923, he immigrated to the United States and settled in New York where he established the foundations of Chassidus in America. During his lifetime he published his Torah thoughts in the sefarim Lev Aryeh Hachadash, Jerusalem 1932, and Kol Yehuda, New York 1949.
