Auction 41
Lot 154:
Typewritten letter on official letterhead of the Grash Shkop, “Ram in the Beit Midrash of Yeshivat Shaar HaTorah in Grodna”. Addressed to “our brothers, the generous Rodfei Tzedek, Hovevei Torah and Tomchei Haverim of the yeshiva, prayers in the great synagogue of Norpolk Street…led by the Nasi Rabbi Shapira..”. Written in Yiddish, he thanks the addressees for the receipt of a donation to the yeshiva, and then appeals to their mercy and mentions the difficult financial condition of the yeshiva…and ends “mit dank un birkat kohen”. 28x21cm. Folds, 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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