Letter to His Son

Eliezer Morawczyk

1588

How good and agreeable is it, when brothers live in one house, and how much more father and son¹

Peace to my beloved, dear and darling son, whose soul is bound to my soul, the intimate friend, the honored Rabbi Moses, may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him, and peace also to thy little daughter, may she live!

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Eliezer Morawczyk

Fl. Late 16th Century

A member of the communal leadership class of the Jewish community in Kraków, Eliezer Morawczyk and his son Moses both fled the city in the wake of a plague that struck about a week before Rosh Hashanah in 1588. Eliezer went to Tymbark (Tymbarg), approximately thirty miles away, and Moses to Prague. As a result of their recent financial distress, Eliezer planned to sell his property in Kraków and move to Lublin. Isaac ben Pinḥas Horowitz (d. 1631) of the Horowitz rabbinic family in Kraków was his son-in-law.

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