Letter by Rabbi Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein Rosh Yeshivas Slobodka- Invitation to the wedding of his daughter ...

Letter by Rabbi Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein Rosh Yeshivas Slobodka- Invitation to the wedding of his daughter Rachel to Rabbi Moshe Chevroni. Vienna 1931.

Addressed to Rabbi Yosef Baumgarten, Rabbi of the famous Schiff Shul in Vienna.

The Gaon Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein  was born in 1866. A student of the famed Volozhin Yeshiva, where he was considered a prodigy. He founded the Kneseth Israel Yeshiva in Slabodka at the request of the "Alter" of Slobodka, along with one of his teachers, the Mussar exponent, Rabbi Itzele Peterburger. The Slabodka Yeshiva, was where many influential Rabbis of the post-Holocaust era had their beginning

 Alongside this, he was also the Rabbi of Slobodka and active in the Council of Torah Sages. Later he settled in  Chevron, far away from the bustle of the city. But following the pogroms of 1929, in which many of the students at his Yeshivah were killed and the Jewish settlement there was destroyed, the Yeshivah was moved to Jerusalem. The rabbi was so heartbroken, he passed away in 1934.

 Wherever he lived he served as a leader of Haredi Jewry. He authored the series of Seforim 'Levush Mordechai'.

His son in law the Gaon Rabbi [Abraham] Moshe Chevroni (1905-1975).  A disciple of the Chofetz Chaim. In 1924 he made Aliya to Chevron together with the Saba of Slabodka and married Rachel the daughter of the Rosh Yeshiva at that time- Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein, and later became the Rosh Yeshiva of the Chevron Yeshiva, and a member of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah.

His novellae are recorded in sefer "Masseis Moshe" on the Shas.

The Gaon Rabbi Yosef Baumgarten, Dayan & later Av Beit Din of the Schiff Shul of Vienna, was born in 1864 in Helishoya, and was a student of the Chatam Sofer. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Stern of Szerdahely. Published articles in 'Tel Talpiot', died in 1933.