“With Hashem’s compassion, He rescued me from death to life”
Historic Letter by the Admor
Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar
1947
Moving letter by the Admor
Rabbeinu Yoel of Satmar regarding the founding of the Bayit Leplitim Orphanage for orphaned child Holocaust survivors.
The letter opens with an emotional expression of gratitude to Hashem,
“With Hashem’s compassion upon me, that He rescued me from death to life, and from fire and water, from the cruel waters that passed over the heads of Bnei Yisrael in Europe who were slaughtered and incinerated while sanctifying His Holy Name, may Hashem avenge their blood. Hashem Yisborach granted me the privilege of arriving in the holy city of Jerusalem where I saw the destitute of my nation, survivors of the sword, suffering distress and privation, those who were salvaged from the inferno, yet who remain orphaned, bereaved and alone, the sole scions of their parents and entire families, with no one to aid or support them…
And being that, praises to Hashem Yisborach, for over forty years, I have taught scholars in a great, glorious yeshivah, as I was instructed by my ancestors and holy Rabbis, generation after generation, I am endeavoring to found a yeshivah and assemble students who are remnants of the Diaspora. I purchased a lot where a building can be constructed to serve as a beis medrash, kitchen and accommodations for the bachurim.”
The Admor writes that he is dispatching his disciple Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Friedman, a son-in-law of Rabbi Shul Brach of Kashoy, to Chicago in order to raise money to found the yeshivah and orphanage.
The Admor Rabbeinu Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), author of the Divrei Yoel, was the spiritual leader of the post-Holocaust Chassidic renaissance. Serving as a father and guide to thousands of Holocaust survivors, he rebuilt the Chassidic court of Satmar both in the United States and Eretz Yisrael. During his brief sojourn in Eretz Hakodesh after the Holocaust, the Satmar Rav invested enormous energies to fortify pure Jewish education and rebuilt the Satmar yeshivah in Yerushalayim.
Brooklyn, 27 Sivan, 5707 (1947). Typewritten on stationery and autographed by Rabbi Yoel of Satmar.
Condition: Fold reinforced on back. Printed in Igros Maharit Letter 309.
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