Important Letter about Shidduchim for his Son the Prodigy, from the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Pinchas Rabinowitz from ...

Important Letter about Shidduchim for his Son the Prodigy, from the Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Pinchas Rabinowitz from Radomsk (Grandson of the Tiferet Shlomo)

Lengthy letter [3 pp] with important and interesting content, entirely handwritten and signed by the sacred gaon Rabbi Yisrael Pinchas HaKohen Rabinowitz, av beit din of Radomsk, son of Rabbi Tzvi Meir, av beit din of Radomsk, son and successor of the Tiferet Shlomo. Radomsk, 1924.

The letter discusses the suggestion of a potential shidduch for his son, the ilui, the gaon Rabbi Yekutiel Nattan Nota HaKohen Rabinowitz. His father, the sacred gaon of Radomsk, explains his son's exceptional virtues to one of Poland's great gvirim in this letter. Although the young man is primarily occupied with pilpul and iyun, his aggadic derashot have become famous and the best of the darshanim ask him to write derashot for them. His son's knowledge of mathematics is also wondrous, despite his never studying the subject, and should he need to know the local language, with his tremendous talent, he will acquire this knowledge in no time as well. The av beit din of Radomsk declares to the shadchan that he himself plans to ascend to the Land of Israel some time soon, and leave the rabbinate of Radomsk in the hands of this son, with whom the whole community is satisfied. The shadchan also speaks of the other side, writing that the kallah's father [named in the letter] also plans on passing his rabbinic position on to the prodigious son-in-law, should the shidduch come to fruition.   

However, this shidduch did not actually materialize. The gaon Rabbi Yekutiel Nattan Nota HaKohen Rabinowitz, who was already 22 years old, became engaged that year to a daughter of the Chassid Rabbi Mendel Landau ztz"l, and was immediately appointed rabbi of Brisk-Kuyavsk. His father, the gaon Rabbi Yisrael Pinchas HaKohen Rabinowitz, av beit din of Radomsk, did not actually ascend to the Land of Israel as he had planned. He was murdered at the head of his community in 1942. The subject of this letter, his son the gaon Rabbi Yekutiel Nattan Nota HaKohen Rabinowitz, was also apparently killed in the Holocaust.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of the gaon Rabbi Yisrael Pinchas Rabinowitz and his son, the gaon Rabbi Yekutiel Nattan Nota HaKohen Rabinowitz, av beit din of Brisk-Kuyavsk.

[1] sheet folded into [3] written pages, 13x20 cm each. Official stationery.

Fine-very fine condition. Fold marks.