Auction 35
Lot 145:
Official postcard of “Ram of the Beit Midrash for Rabbanim, Yeshivat Shaar HaTorah in Grodna.” Gaon Rabbi Shimon Yehuda HaKohen Shkop. 5th of Cheshvan 1936, written in Yiddish, addressed to New York to “the donors of the Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of the Synagogue of the Beit Midrash Gadol.” He thanks the donors and blesses them: “We have indeed received the money and we thank them all together and each individually that they did not forget our holy yeshiva, may they be blessed with health and good business.” He ends with his signature and the stamp of the yeshiva (smudged). 14×10.5+cm. Rust stain in the margins from a staple, overall good condition.
Rabbi Shimon Shkop (1860-1940) began studied at Yeshivat Mir at age 12, and when he was 14 moved to the Volozhin yeshiva, where he joined a small group of students who studied with Rabbi Haim Soloveitchik. In 1920 he was called upon by Rabbi Haim Ozer Grodzinsky of Vilna to lead the Shaar HaTorah yeshiva in Grodna, where he served for around 20 years. In 1928 he published the first part of his great book “Shaarei Yosher”, characterized by his depth of knowledge. Over the years more sections were printed (a work miraculously saved by his students in the USSR) and it was widely accepted and read in the yeshiva world.
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