Letter of Good Year Wishes with Blessings from Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz – Mir, Elul 1926 – "With a Good Inscription ...

Letter of Good Year Wishes with Blessings from Rabbi Yerucham Levovitz – Mir, Elul 1926 – "With a Good Inscription and Sealing… For a Good and Sweet Life, a Year of Absolute Serenity and Tranquil Peace"
Letter (15 lines) handwritten and signed by R. Yerucham Levovitz. Mir, [Elul 1926].
Addressed to R. Yosef Shub, director of Vaad HaYeshivot in Vilna, who invited him to attend a conference of yeshiva deans with the purpose of bolstering the fundraising on behalf the Vaad. R. Yerucham writes of the difficulties in abandoning the yeshiva during the month of Elul: " …he surely understands that it is difficult for me at this point to abandon the many…", and he therefore suggests a different way of strengthening the fundraising.
R. Yerucham concludes the letter with blessings for a good year: " His good friend, who seeks his wellbeing, blesses him with a good inscription and sealing in the book of complete Tzaddikim, immediately for a good and sweet life, a year of absolute serenity and tranquil peace… Y. Levovitz".
R. Yerucham HaLevi Levovitz (1875-1936), a foremost educator and mussar leader of his generation. A student of the Beit HaTalmud of Kelm, teacher of R. Yechezkel Levenstein. He served as mashgiach in Lithuanian yeshivot, the Radin yeshiva and others. His most significant position was his long tenure as mashgiach of the Mir yeshiva, directing it during its escape to Poltova during WWI. After the yeshiva returned to Mir, he was the driving force behind the rebuilding the yeshiva, and in edifying students who would serve as the Torah leaders of the next generation. His close disciples, who referred to him as "Admor", later became the prominent yeshiva deans of our times, such as R. Chaim Shmulevitz, R. Aryeh Leib Malin (who was one of the compilers of his books of lectures Chavar Maamarim, Daat Chochma UMussar) and others.
He showed special care for students from central Europe, and gave them special mussar classes, in which he imbued them with the tenets of faith and the profound Torah thinking characteristic of Lithuanian yeshivot (these lectures were published in the five volumes of Daat Torah). R. Wolbe, who was one of his youngest disciples, writes about him in his preface to his famous book, Alei Shur: "…how does a Torah man look, after becoming a different person? Come with me… and see the beauty… The author of this book, in his youth… was brought close to a giant among men, the light of our eyes, who resurrects the dead with his speech, R. Yerucham HaLevi… in the Mir Yeshiva…".
Postcard. 10.5X15 cm. Good condition. Minor stains. Minor marginal tear. Postage stamp. Postmarks from the 21st and 22nd of August, 1926.