Lot 445
Loan Certificate, Yeshivat Ponevezh - Signed by Rabbi Kahanman
Loan certificate, Ponevezh Yeshivah, for 50 Lirot. Tel Aviv, Chanuka, December 1952. Luria printing, Tel-Aviv.
The loan certificate and the four checks for cashing of the loan are hand signed by The Rabbi of Ponevezh, Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahanman.
Picture of the Yeshivah in Giv'at Zichron Meir, Bnei Brak. With the phrase "and in Har Zion there will be a remainder and it was holy", which was told to the Rabbi of Ponevezh by the Chafetz Chaim when he spoke to him in 1933 on what was about to happen to the Jewish People in WWII.
Rabbi of Ponevezh - Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahanman (1886-1969), studied at the Telz Yeshivah and with the Chafetz Chaim in Radin. Served as Rabbi in Widzh and Ponevezh. Of the founders of Agudat Yisrael and Va'ad Ha-Yeshivot. Member of Mo'etset Gedolei Ha-Torah since 1923 and close to Chafetz Chaim and Rabbi Chayim Ozer Grodzanski.
In the middle of the Holocaust years, in which he lost most of his family and students, he re-established the Yeshivah in Bnei Brak. The Yeshiva at first was established from loans and contributions, buildings for hundreds and thousands of students, a vision which reached materialization.
Attached is a check for the payment of the loan for the sum of 125 Israeli Lirot, which is signed by the Rabbi from Ponevezh.
[2] leaves. Various sizes. Excellent condition.
