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Three Receipts of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva with R‭. ‬I‭. ‬Z‭. ‬Meltzer's Signatures - Three receipts of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, with the signatures of R. Isser Zalman Meltzer. 1941–1951. Two of the receipts were issued in 1941, and come from a receipt book. The third receipt was issued to R. Yitzchak Isaac Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, who forwarded a sizable donation to Etz Chaim from a tzedakah fund he administered. This receipt was printed tastefully in colored ink on a sheet with pictures of R. Shmuel of Salant and of the new building of the Yeshiva. On the reverse is a list of the benfits rewarded to donors, written in Yiddish and English. R. Isser Zalman Meltzer was born in Mir in 1870 and was a Rosh Yeshiva in Slobodka. Later he moved to Slutsk where he was the Rabbi and Rosh Hayeshiva . In 1925 he moved to Jerusalem to take up the position of Rosh Hayeshiva of the Etz Chaim yeshiva, leaving his son-in-law R. Aharon Kotler to head his yeshiva in Lithuania . R. Isser Zalman wrote the series Even HaEzel on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah .