Auction 14
Lot 077:
Written to Rabbi Shmuel Hominer on the subject of the level of study in the book Khovat HaLevavot, and an answer to his question on the issue of astronomy and the planet Earth. At the end is his handwritten signature. He lived 1885-1974, studied at the Radin yeshiva, and was a student of Rav Yerucham Leibovitz, and of Rav Zvi Hirsch Brody. Served as spiritual mashgiach for the Kalcheck and Mir yeshivot, and as mashgiach in the Petah Tikva yeshiva, headed by Rav Reuven Katz. After the death of his rav, the mashgiach of the Mir yeshiva, he returned to Poland and succeeded his rabbi’s position. At the Mir yeshiva he remained until the Shoah, and then he travelled with the students to Shanghai, where he became noticeable as a leader of the yeshiva, and sages would come to him with their questions. After he moved to Israel he served as mashgiach of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak. Among his students were Rav Gedalya Eisman, Rav Shlomo Welba, Rav Yitzhak Yerucham Borodiansky, Rav Dan Segel, Rav Shlomo Broda, and Rav NAchum Aba Grosbard. Considered a great mussar sage of the last few generations. He was nicknamed HaMashgiach. Size of the letter: 13x20cm, 22 lines handwritten, generally good condition.
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