Auction 65
Lot 138:
"ובפרט דהתחלת הנהגת הישיבה" Lengthy letter with Torah Novellae on tractate Makot, handwritten and signed by the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Hager, Author of Damesek Eliezer, referring to his sacred work as the Rosh Yeshiva. Written in his father, the Ahavat Yisrael’s lifetime – Vizhnitz, 1935.
The letter was written in response to a letter of Torah novellae that was sent to Rabbeinu. In his letter, Rabbeinu discusses the writer’s words, adding his Pilpulim. At the beginning of the letter, Rabbeinu addressed his sacred work as Rosh Yeshiva: כעת שניתן לי מעט מנוחה מטרדותי המרובים בהתחלת הזמן מענייני דמתא ובפרט דהתחלת הנהגת הישיבה אמרתי אעיין נא בדברי כת"ה החביבים עלי מאד". At the end, his handwritten signature: "הק’ אליעזר בהה"צ שליט"א".
Double leaf, 2+ written pages (an addiitonal page in another script – has not been studied).
21X27 cm.
Small tears. Good condition.
The Admor Rabbi Eliezer Hager, author of he Damesek Eliezer of Vizhnitz (1891-1946) was the son of the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz. On his mother’s side he was grandson of the Imrei Noam of Djikov. He was an amazing Talmid Chacham, Admor and Rosh Yeshiva of Vizhnitz. He received his Semicha from the Maharsham of Berzhan and Rabbi Shmuel Engel of Radomishla. During World War I, he lived in Vienna and was in contact with many Jewish sages who resided there because of the war, such as Rabbi Avraham Menachem Steinberg (the Machazeh Avraham). In 1922 he was crowned Rav of Vizhnitz during his father’s lifetime, and a year later he established the Vizhnitz yeshiva in the town. After his father’s passing in 1936 he began to serve as Admor.
In 1940 he escaped Vizhnitz, which had been captured by the Russians, and settled in Timisoara. He loved the Jewish people so much that he sacrificed greatly to save Jews with food packages and rescue operations for Jews exiled to the Transnistria swamps, operations led by his brother the Mekor Baruch of Seret-Vizhnitz. He sold all of his possessions with this idea in mind, and luckily also managed to escape himself and move to Israel on the 26th of Nissan, 1944, where he established the Vizhnitz yeshiva in Tel Aviv. A few months later he appointed his nephew to run it (Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, later the Admor Yeshuot Moshe of Vizhnitz). A short time after his Aliyah he became sick and passed away in Elul 1946. He is buried on the Mt. of Olives beside the graves of Admorei Rachmastrivka. He did not leave any descendants to continue his legacy. Although hemade efforts to print all of his Chiddushim, many of them were forever lost during the war. After his passing, some of his Divrei Torah were published in the bool Damesek Eliezer on the Torah (1949), and on Tehillim (1958).
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