A long two page letter Torah innovations handwritten and signed by Rabbi Dr. Jacob Kohn, Leipzig, to the Gaon Rabbi ...

A long two page letter Torah innovations handwritten and signed by Rabbi Dr. Jacob Kohn, Leipzig, to the Gaon Rabbi Mordechai Meir Friedman
Rabbi Mordechai Meir son of Rabbi Yisrael Yom Tov Friedmann [d. 1988] was the last rabbi of Kitsee. He was a disciple of Rabbi Yosef Elimelech Kahana, Av Beit Din of Ungvar and of the author of Da’at Sofer of Pressburg. When his grandfather, the Av Beit Din of Kitsee – Rabbi Tzvi Hirch Abeles, became elderly, and the work in the rabbinate became too difficult for him, he appointed his grandson to succeed him. Although quite young, his grandfather saw that he was destined for greatness, and he was assigned to the rabbinate of Kitsee while yet unmarried. Rabbi Mordechai Meir founded a senior yeshivah for young men, where he delivered regular lectures just as one with great experience – all this before he married. When he came of age, he married a daughter of Rabbi Baruch Moshe Lebel, rosh yeshivah of Pressburg. After a short time as rabbi in Kitsee, when the guillotine came down on the people of the Seven Communities, Rabbi Meir Mordechai managed to escape. After a grueling journey, he ascended to the Land of Israel. He settled in Tel Aviv, where he was asked to become rabbi of the Maccabi neighborhood. However, upon request of his rabbi, author of Da’at Sofer, and with extraordinary greatness of spirit, he declined the offer in favor of another rabbi who was crushed and despondent after the Holocaust, despite the fact that this also involved declining minimal income for basic sustenance. After several years, he moved to Bnei Brak, where he dedicated himself once again to disseminating Torah through the dozens of lectures he delivered each week, such as in the Heichal Shlomo synagogue on Pardes Katz, where he served as rabbi, as well as in the Benedict synagogue. He was especially well-known for the special lecture he delivered there on Shabbat evening. Many dozens of listeners came each Shabbat to hear his delightful lessons on the weekly Torah portion. He also delivered lessons in Tel Aviv, in the synagogue on Yehudah HaLevi Street, where he would also pray on the high holidays.