Lengthy letter (2 leaves) handwritten and signed by R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz, dean of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva of Kamenets. [Kamenets], 21st Elul 1932.

Addressed to his relative R. Yechezkel Abramsky, author of Chazon Yechezkel, who escaped Russia for England that year, and was appointed Rabbi of the Machazikei HaDat community in London. Shanah Tovah letters, showering many heartfelt blessings upon him and his family. He asks him for to provide food for two rabbis suffering from hunger and sickness, R. Shlomo of Starobin in exile in Russia and R. Shemaiah Kovan, posek in Kiev.

He adds even more Shanah Tovah blessings, concluding with his signature, "Baruch Dov Leibowitz, dean of the holy Beit Yitzchak yeshiva, 21st Elul 1932".

R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1939), author of Birkat Shmuel, leading Torah disseminator in his times. He was a disciple of R. Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin yeshiva, and the son-in-law of R. Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman, Rabbi of Hlusk (son-in-law of R. Yaakov Moshe Direktor, Rabbi of Novaya Mysh). After his father-in-law went to serve as rabbi of Kremenchuk, he succeeded him in Hlusk and established a yeshiva. After a 13-year tenure, he was asked to head the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Slabodka. During World War I, he wandered with the yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchuk and Vilna, before finally settling in Kamenets. He authored Birkat Shmuel on Talmudic topics. His teachings and writings are classics of in-depth yeshiva study.

The recipient of the letter,
R. Yechezkel Abramsky, Rabbi of Slutsk and London (1886-1976), was a relative of R. Baruch Ber by marriage, as Rebbetzin Beila Zimmerman of Kremenchuk, R. Baruch Ber's mother-in-law, was the sister of R. Yisrael Yaakov Yerushalimsky, R. Abramsky's father-in-law.

The subject of the letter,
R. Shlomo Landau Rabbi of Starobin (Minsk region), disciple of R. Baruch Ber in the Hlusk yeshiva and of R. Chaim Soloveitchik in Brisk. His son R. Chaim Grunem Landau was studying in the Kamenets yeshiva under R. Baruch Ber at the time, and married the daughter of R. Tzvi Pesach Frank in Jerusalem in 1936.

[2] leaves. Official stationery. 28 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Folding marks with some creases.