Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (1866 - 6 Sivan 1948), the son of the Sfas Emes, was the third Rebbe in the Gur dynasty. A position he held from 1905 until his death in 1948. He was the spiritual leader of over 250,000 Chassidim in pre-WW II Poland. In 1940, he managed to escape with three of his sons to Eretz Yisrael (then Palestine), although the vast majority of his followers did not survive. He was on of the founders of the Agudas Yisroel in Poland. He began to rebuild the Gerrer community in Yerushalayim, but he died there during the siege of Yerushalayim on Shavuos, 1948. He was known as the Imrei Emes, after the title of his major book.
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HIS SEGULOS:
Segula For Parnassah
A Letter which is a segula for parnassa and all matters as a promise from the Gerrer Rebbe, the Imrei Emes:
“I have a request to ask of you all, that, to me, is equal to many requests. And I have a promise to make to you, be’ezras Hashem, that if you fulfill my request, I will owe you a tremendous favor and debt of gratitude as much as Hashem grants me the ability to fulfill here now, and in the future, and similarly to all those who help in fulfilling this request and in actualizing it.
“I am distressed if I need to embarrass anyone or shame them publicly, but there is great need for me to reveal the following shortcoming, because you are found wanting. You are lacking in love, peace, brotherhood, and fraternity among yourselves. There is strife over divergences of opinion, and this machlokes is a bad thing. Rather, there should be peace and truth among you. Help each other, whether in physical or spiritual matters, and you will thereby have the strength to stand at the breach, concerning all matters of Yiddishkeit. Everything depends on achdus – togetherness! I have no doubt that in this merit, Hashem will help you generally in all matters, and specifically in parnassa.
This is my request to all of you, young and old, great and small. Your friend who asks you all to fully fulfill his request. (Osef Michtavim Michtav 7)
