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Letter from Rabbi Eliezer Zvi (Rabbi Hirsh) Levitan of Slabodka and Jerusalem. Sent to Rabbi Shraga Meir Lazarowitz, who was born in Kelm and served as Rabbi in London, Jerusalem, 1913. Fascinating letter concerning the Segulah of sleeping in Eliyahu's cave in order to heal illnesses, particularly madness. Also regarding transfer of charity funds. The great scholar Rabbi Eliezer Zvi (Rabbi Hirsh) Levitan (1840-1916) was born in Kovna. Disciple of Rabbi Ya'akov Yosef and Rabbi Yisrael of Salant. In 1863 he founded "Rabbi Hershel's Yeshivah" in Slabodka, the core from which the great Slabodka yeshivah was founded later, in 1880, by Rabbi Natan Zvi Hirsh Finkel. Even when immigrating to Jerusalem in 1892, he founded a yeshiva inh Giv'at Sha'ul and initiated Torah classes there. Despite his old age, he would run about from place to place in the city on his donkey in order to give classes. See more about him in T'nuat Ha-Musar, Part Two, pages 330-343. Postcard – 9x13.8 cm. Very good condition, post-stamped 1913.