Letter by Rebbe Yisrael of Hosiatin - Tel Aviv, 1940

Letter by Rebbe Yisrael of Hosiatin - Tel Aviv, 1940
Letter in scribal writing, signed by Rebbe "Yisrael ben Mordechai Feivish" of Hosiatin. Tel Aviv, 1940.
Sent to his Chassidim in Chicago in the USA, response to the bank transfer of donations collected in their city. The Rebbe blesses all the donors and those who collected the funds with the blessing of "Speedy salvation, that G-d shall empty his blessings upon them and on his family, they should be blessed with all good, constant complete good health, and G-d should give them…comfortable honorable livelihoods… cures to those in need and good matches for the sons and daughters who have reached marriageable age and G-d should fulfill all their wishes with good and blessing". Written at the end of the letter is the rebbe's willingness to receive the list of the donors' names and the names of their mothers, "I will bless them again individually, each one with his personal blessing".
Rebbe Yisrael of Hosiatin, eldest of the Ruzhyn Rebbes, was the last grandson of Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhyn. He was born in 1858 to his father Rabbi Mordechai Feivish of Hosiatin, and from 1894 succeeded him as rebbe in Hosiatin. He arrived in Vienna in 1914 and in 1937 ascended to Eretz Israel and resided in Tel Aviv. The story of his prayer at the grave of the Or HaChaim is well-known. During the Holocaust, at the time the Nazi army commanded by Rommel was nearing the Middle East and the inhabitants of the area greatly feared that the army would conquest the Egyptian front and G-d forbid reach the shores of Eretz Israel and annihilate its inhabitants, Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhyn, in the presence of leading Kabbalists, prayed at the gravesite of the Or HaChaim and the rebbe announced that the evil enemy would not govern Eretz Israel. He died in Tel Aviv during Chanuka of 1948, and was buried in Tiberias.
Official stationery, 17X20 cm. Good-fair condition, creases and minor tears.