Letter from Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Horowitz Author of Harei Besamim - To the Kedushat Yom Tov Rebbe of Sighet - Stryi, 1898

Letter from Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Horowitz Author of Harei Besamim - To the Kedushat Yom Tov Rebbe of Sighet - Stryi, 1898
Letter handwritten and signed by R. Aryeh Leibush Horowitz. Stryi, Rosh Chodesh Shevat 1898.
Addressed to Rebbe Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Rabbi of Sighet (author of Kedushat Yom Tov, father of the Atzei Chaim Rebbe of Sighet and of Rebbe Yoel of Satmar). In this letter, R. Aryeh Leibush recommends his disciple R. Alter Shaul Pfeffer and requests that the Kedushat Yom Tov offer him a rabbinic position in his country. He explains that "I know this disciple very well… his only desire is that Torah be his profession… he is extremely proficient in the Talmud and halachic literature… and few are comparable to him…".
The letter concludes with well-wishes for the Rebbe, his disciples and followers: "And I shall speak of peace for his honor, and for all his followers… Aryeh Leibush HaLevi Ish Horowitz Rabbi of this place and the region".
R. Aryeh Leibush Horowitz (1846-1909), author of Responsa Harei Besamim, five volumes, was a leading Galician Torah scholar and halachic authority. A beloved grandson of R. Meshulam Yissachar Horowitz Rabbi of Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) author of Bar Livai, and son of R. Yitzchak Horowitz author of Toldot Yitzchak and Me'ah She'arim. He served in the Zalozitz (Zaliztsi), Stryi and Stanislav rabbinates. In his youth, he would frequent the court of the Divrei Chaim, Rebbe of Sanz. The first two parts of Responsa Harei Besamim were printed in his lifetime. He arranged the rest of his writings for print but they were never published. During WWII, his writings disappeared in the blaze which consumed Bistrița, but his disciples dug under the ruins of his house and unearthed the manuscripts, which were then valiantly smuggled into Eretz Israel and the US, where the other three parts were published.
[1] leaf. 23 cm. 18 autograph lines. Fair condition. Tears to folds, repaired. Adhesive tape marks.