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Aggadic Novellae – Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky – Ca. 1970s

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Manuscript, three leaves handwritten by R. Shmuel Rozovsky, short notes of homiletics and aggadic commentary. [Eretz Israel?/United States?, ca. 1970s].
Dense autograph writing, with additions and deletions. Based on the type of paper, it may have been written during his stay in the United States (or the paper may have been brought from the United States).

R. Shmuel Rozovsky (1913-1979) was the son of R. Michel David Rozovsky, a rabbi in Grodno (1869-1935). He studied under R. Shimon Shkop in the Shaar HaTorah yeshiva in Grodno (his hometown), in the Mir yeshiva in Poland and in the Lomza yeshiva in Petach Tikva. He was the son-in-law of R. Tzvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi of Jerusalem. He served as lecturer in the Lomza yeshiva as a young man. In Kislev 1943 he moved over with his disciples to the newly founded Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, and was the first lecturer in the Ponevezh yeshiva. His lectures were the focal point of the Ponevezh yeshiva, where he transmitted the Torah of the Lithuanian yeshivot to the new generation in Eretz Israel. His impact on the Torah world in our times was highly significant, and until this day the lectures in most yeshivot are based on the principles and approaches of R. Shmuel, which he absorbed from his teachers in the Grodno yeshiva and in the yeshivas in Lithuania.
Already in his lifetime, his lectures were published based on his students' notes, which were photocopied and printed in various mimeograph editions. After his passing, his novellae and lectures were edited by his descendants and leading disciples, and published in Chidushei Rabbi Shmuel, Shiurei Rabbi Shmuel and Zichron Shmuel. When compiling these books, they mainly used the notes which his disciples took during the lectures, referring only minimally to R. Shmuel's own manuscripts, since he wrote very little of his own notes. Thus, most of his teachings were transmitted through his disciples' oral and written records.

[3] leaves, written on one side. 19.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear.
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