Nearly three decades after the passing of the Divrei Emunah of Toldos Aharon, a collection of approximately 100 rare and valuable seforim from his personal library has resurfaced and was transferred this week to the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe, marking a dramatic development in an inheritance matter that has remained unresolved since the Rebbe’s passing.

The collection, which had apparently never been distributed among the Divrei Emunah’s sons, was brought to the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe on Thursday so that he could personally examine the seforim.

The discovery has generated considerable interest within the Toldos chassidic communities, which divided following the passing of the Divrei Emunah approximately 29 years ago.

According to attorney Reb Aharon Feigel, who has been appointed by the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe to handle the matter, the collection contains valuable seforim whose existence was previously unknown and which did not appear on the lists prepared when the inheritance was originally divided.

Behadrei Chareidim reported that the items are part of the Divrei Emunah’s estate and, under the terms of his will, may not be used by anyone else. They have now been brought to the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe for his review.

The discovery is particularly significant because the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe had maintained for years that additional seforim belonging to his father existed but were missing from the inheritance records.

Feigel said that of the approximately 100 seforim in the newly surfaced collection, only three had previously been known to the heirs and included on the original lists.

Those three seforim had remained undivided because of their substantial value. Their worth made a straightforward physical division among the heirs impossible, while the heirs had refrained from selling them and dividing the proceeds.

The much larger collection has now been examined, and a determination will be made regarding how the inheritance should be divided among the Divrei Emunah’s sons: the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe, the Toldos Aharon Rebbe, the Mevakshei Emunah Rebbe, the Nachlas Aharon Rebbe, and Rav Moshe Kahn, rosh yeshiva of Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok.

Feigel described an emotional scene as the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe encountered the seforim again after so many years.

According to Feigel, the Rebbe spent hours going through the collection, and his tremendous emotion and joy were readily apparent. He recognized the seforim individually from his youth, when he spent days and nights immersed in Torah and avodah in the room of his father, the Divrei Emunah.

The approximately 100 seforim may not be the final items from the Divrei Emunah’s estate to resurface.

Feigel said he recently learned of the existence of several additional valuable manuscripts connected to the estate. He is now working to have those manuscripts brought to the Toldos Avrohom Yitzchok Rebbe as well, so they can be examined and ultimately included in the division among the heirs.

The remarkable development comes nearly 30 years after the Divrei Emunah’s passing and the subsequent division within Toldos Aharon, bringing back into the hands of his children seforim that had been part of their father’s world and, for decades, had effectively disappeared from the inheritance record.