Auction 56

Letter handwritten and signed by the gaon Rabbi Shmuel Yitzhak Hillman, author of the Or HaYashar. London 1930

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The letter was sent to Rabbi Nachman Shlomo Greenspan.

with words of appreciation for his book “Kidshei HaGvul”: “I saw in your nice book ‘Kidshei HaGvul’ nice things and enlightening chiddushim, may Hashem strengthen you to continue innovating and spread them throughout Israel, from your friend who blesses you …”

21x26cm. Creases, good condition.

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.