Interesting Letter from Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Zilber Discussing a Match for his Daughter

Interesting Letter from Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Zilber Discussing a Match for his Daughter

Postcard written and signed by the gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber.

The letter is addressed to a Jew who is interested in a match with his daughter. The gaon writes that they already made an agreement with a different young man in the Ponovezh yeshiva before they received this letter. 'Many thanks to his honor for his consideration of my daughter, but your letter arrived after we made an agreement with a young scholar from Yeshivat Ponovezh (גימאכט אווארט)' and he blesses him that Hash-m should grant him success in building a true Jewish home. His handwritten signature, Yosef Yitzchak, in the margins of the letter.

Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber [1917-2004] rabbi of the Jews of the Soviet Union, was very active in Torah outreach to Jews from the Soviet Union. In 1989, when the communist government in the USSR began to weaken, he was sent by Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik to Moscow together with Alexander Eisenstat to examine the possibility of establishing a yeshiva there. After the yeshiva was established [known as Torat Chaim today] he would visit it twice a year - Pesach and Sukkot, and deliver lectures which drew a large crowd of Jews beyond the yeshiva's students. In 2000 he established the 'Toldot Yeshurun' organization which deals with establishing religious communities of immigrants from Russia and Torah outreach to immigrants from the former USSR.

[1] postcard. 15x10 cm. Very fine condition.