Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Letter of Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz – Kamenets, Kislev 1932
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Letter handwritten and signed by R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz, dean of the Kamenets yeshiva. [Kamenets], 29th Kislev 1932.
Yiddish letter addressed to donors of the yeshiva, the Feigin family in Philadelphia, USA. R. Baruch Ber showers them with blessings and thanks for their generous support for the yeshiva.
Most of the letter is typewritten, and it concludes with six lines of warm, heartfelt blessings handwritten, stamped and signed by the yeshiva dean R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz: "Baruch Dov Leibowitz, dean of the holy Beit Yitzchak yeshiva".
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. 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.
[2] leaves, official stationery. 28.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and folding marks.
Letters – Lithuanian Rabbis
Letters – Lithuanian Rabbis 