Long Handwritten Letter of Torah Novellae by Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch, Rosh Yeshivah of Telz. Cleveland, 1942.
This letter was written on the stationery of the Telz Yeshivah in Cleveland, Ohio shortly after it opened. The Telz Yeshivah was officially founded on 7 Cheshvan, 5702 (October 1941), and this letter was dated 18 Kislev, 5702 (November 1941).
At this point, dark rumors regarding the massacre of European Jewry, among them the deaths of his own family members, had reached the Rosh Yeshivah and in this letter he expresses heart-brokenly that his only comfort is engaging with the words of Torah.
“It is very difficult to repress the sentiments of pain, yet we must surmount it all and continue our service of Hashem, because for this we were created.”
Harav Eliyahu Meir Bloch (1895-1955) was Rosh Yeshivah of Telz, a member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, and one of the premier leaders of American Jewry after the Holocaust. In 1928, he was appointed by his father Harav Yosef Yehuda Leib Bloch — Rosh Yeshivah and Rav in Telz, as a maggid shiur in the yeshivah in Telz. With the outbreak of war, he miraculously escaped Europe to the United States where he founded the Telz Yeshivah in Cleveland.
Cleveland, 1942. 4 leaves. Page size: 28x22cm. Letter addressed to Rabbi Naftali Carlebach — father of the legendary Shlomo Carlebach.
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