Auction 75
Lot 51:
Letter by the famed Gaon Maran Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky the Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka – addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg – about the printing of his monumental work Chazon Yechezkel on the Tosefta – London, 1950.
Chazon Yechezkel on the Tosefta wa Rabbeinu’s monumental work and the "book of his life". Rabbi Abramsky spent his best years on the work, the first section being published in Vilna in 1925 and the tenth approx. forty years later! in Jerusalem, 1966.
Rabbi Waldenberg was Rabbeinu’s contact in Israel for the publishing of the book there. The letter indicates how deeply the Chazon Yechezkel cared for his work, expressing his concern with several leaves he had sent for printing and has not yet received confirmation of their receipt: "שרוי אני בצער והנני מלא דאגה על דף גוף התוספתא בשנוי נוסחאות וגליון בן ארבעה עמודים באורים וחדושים שנשלחו לידידי זה יותר משלשה שבועות ולא נתאשרה קבלתם…". Rabbi Abramsky notes that he wrote the work for Halacha LeMa’asseh!!! and stressing the importance of the publishing of this section: "שיש לו ערך גדול בין בדרך הלימוד ובין בשמעתתא אליבא דהלכתא"!!!! "בכליון עיינים אני מצפה לגליונות הנדפסים, האם חלה חס ושלו’ איזו הפסקה בהדפסה? עניינים חשובים תלוים בהופעת החלק הזה" !!!!
Aerogram.
20X25 cm.
Good condition.
Maran the Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky (1886-1976) author of the Chazon Yechezkel. Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka, leader of the Chareidi community after the Holocaust and one of the leaders of Mo’etezt Gedolei HaTorah. In 1923, Rabbeinu was appointed the Rav of Slutzk, replacing the Gaon Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, who escaped the Communists. Rabbeinu himself suffered from the KGB and in 1930 was sentenced to five years in Siberia. Following the pressure of Jews from all around the world, he was released and left the USSR for London. In his final years, he lived in Jerusalem.
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