Auction 18
Lot 070:
1. Three original photographs in black and white of the Admor of Piaseczno. 2. Booklet of the monthly Torah journal HaKerem, “under the supervision of the Admor of Piaseczno,” Warsaw, Kislev 1931. 3. Entry card for the Da’at Moshe yeshiva, led by the Rebbe of Piaseczno. The student is Sinai Pelz, from the winter period of 1939. Stamped by the yeshiva. The Admor Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczno (1889-1944) is known as a great Hassidic thinker and became famous for his compositions including Chovat HaTalmidim. After the First World War, became of the great crisis of Charedi Judaism (many of the youth were attracted by the nationalist movements and left religion), he decided to engage in youth education and founded the Da’at Moshe yeshiva in Warsaw, where he served as head of the yeshiva. During the German occupation he lived in the Warsaw Ghetto and continued to give drashot to his followers. His drashot were written down and were found after the war and were published in the book “Esh Kodesh” (Holy Fire). He was murdered in November 1943 at the Trawniki concentration camp, next to Lublin.
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