Auction 54
Lot 149:
Letter on official letterhead of “the Knesset Yisrael Beit Din Tzedek of London and the Country”, from 18th Elul 1924. Addressed to “my friend the Dere”g shlita” with no name.
In the beginning he opens with some strong words: “This is the first time in which the Rav angered me in sending me a return stamp, and I have suffered from this slight, and I attach it to this in return and forgive him this time, and repeat by saving this should never be done again…”
At the end he writes: “of course there are things that I cannot say in writing but will have to say in person…” and writes: “Shmuel Yitzhak Hillman.”
13x20cm. Creases. Contents on both sides of the leaf.
Rav Shmuel Yitzhak Hillman (1868-1953) was the Chief Rabbi of Glasgow and father-in-law of the Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog. In 1934 he moved to Israel and founded the Ohel Torah yeshiva in Rehavia (Jerusalem), where greats of the generation studied: Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wazner, Rav Binyamin Yehoshua Zilber, and more. Most of his time he dedicated to writing his series of books—Or HaYashar—which included dozens of volumes of chiddushim and notes on the books of Mikra, Tanach, Midrash, Mishnah, Talmuds, and Rambam.
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