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Handwritten Leaves – Rabbi Shmuel Rozovsky – Ca. 1960s-1970s
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Five handwritten leaves, novellae on various topics by R. Shmuel Rozovsky, dean of the Ponevezh yeshiva. [Bnei Brak, ca. 1960s-1970s].
Most leaves in autograph handwriting, with handwritten additions and deletions.
On one of the leaves, drafts of letters on various topics, addressed to R. Chaim Yosef Denkeles, with notes on his Daat Yosef on purity laws; and to R. Shach, on sacrificial laws.
Another leaf discusses the laws of mourning; two other leaves are a copying of the same composition (in another hand), with additions and corrections handwritten by R. Shmuel Rozovsky.
Another leaf discusses the laws of the Eglah Arufah (possibly written by a copyist).
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 to this day the lectures in most yeshivas 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.
[5] leaves (comprising 8 written pages). Varying size and condition.
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