Two bank checks signed by the Ga’avad and Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahneman, with the yeshiva’s stamp and the additional signature of Rabbi Moshe Portman, who was his right-hand man.
1. 500 Lirot for the Bnei Brak Municipality. From 20 March, 1959.
2. 90 Lirot for
Rabbi Nissim Toledano, from 25 March, 1958.
Size: 6.8×13.5cm. Filing holes, slight tear to one of them on the edge, light wear, overall good condition.
Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahneman (1888-1969) was the Rosh Yeshivat Ponevezh in Lithuania before the Shoah and founded the yeshiva in Israel after the Shoah. He was the first leader of the Council of Torah Sages. He also founded the “Batei Avot” for children who survived the Shoah, and founded Kiryat Ponevezh and Yeshivat Grodna in Ashdod. The great sacrifices he made in establishing Torah life in Israel after the destruction of European Jewry was legendary, and there are streets named after him in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem.
