Letter from R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz, dean of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Kamenets. [Kamenets], 12 Cheshvan, 1931. Yiddish.

Letter sent to donors of the yeshiva, the Feigin yeshiva in Philadelphia, USA. R. Baruch Ber showers them with blessings and thanks for their generous support for the yeshiva. He also writes to them that on 6 Cheshvan, the yeshiva commemorated the yahrzeit of Tzirel Chayah daughter of R. Zalman, in accordance with the yeshiva's statutes.
Most of the letter is typewritten, and it concludes with seven lines of warm, heartfelt blessings handwritten and signed by the yeshiva dean R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz: "I bless you and wish you, along with your generous and righteous wife, the fulfillment of blessing given in the Torah for Jews who support Torah study, 'Blessed is he who supports', lengthy days and years, wealth and honor, true health, success and blessing. And may you merit to soon see the salvation of Israel and the coming of the Messiah, Amen. Blessing, honoring and esteeming him, Baruch Dov Leibowitz, dean of the holy Beit Yitzchak yeshiva".

R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1939), author of Birkat Shmuel, leading Torah disseminator in his times. He was a disciple of R. Chaim of Brisk in the Volozhin yeshiva, and the son-in-law of R. Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman, Rabbi of Hlusk. After his father-in-law went to serve as rabbi of Kremenchuk, he succeeded him in Hlusk and established a yeshiva. After a 13-year tenure, he was asked to head the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Slabodka. During World War I, he wandered with the yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchuk and Vilna, finally settling in Kamenets. He authored Birkat Shmuel on Talmudic topics. His teachings and writings are classics of in-depth yeshiva study.

[2] leaves, official stationery. 28.5 cm. Good condition. Folds.

Two letters handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Yoffen, dean of the Beit Yosef-Novardok network of yeshivot. United States, 1952-1958.
Addressed to his disciple R. Bentzion Bruk, dean of the Beit Yosef-Novardok yeshiva in Jerusalem. The letters discuss public and private matters pertaining to the Novardok yeshivot and their graduates.
In the letter from Adar 1952, R. Avraham blesses him to enjoy satisfaction from his sons and daughters, and tells him of his son R. Zalman Yosef [Yoffen] who was studying diligently: "May G-d allow his Torah to be his craft, in which case, with the help of G-d, there is hope that he will perform great deeds in bringing merit to the public".
He goes on to write of his disciple R. Gershon Liebman, founder of the Novardok yeshivot in France, and of his work to save Moroccan and Algerian children. He cryptically alludes to some criticism he had about discord between his disciples, asking R. Bruk to offer R. Gershon encouragement in his correspondence with him, and stressing the importance not to divide into factions while the rest of the world is joining forces against them.

R. Avraham Yoffen (1886-1970), son-in-law and close disciple of the Alter of Novardok. He headed the Beit Yosef-Novardok network of yeshivot for fifty years, and was one of leading Torah disseminators in his times, risking his life to further Torah study even under Communist rule. In 1941, he reached the United States, where he lived for some twenty years, establishing a yeshiva there as well. In 1964, he immigrated to Eretz Israel, spending his final years in Jerusalem.

2 letters. Official stationery. 28 cm. Good condition. Stains and folding marks. Slight tears and filing holes to one letter.

Large assorted collection of over fifty letters from rabbis, Torah scholars and other figures. Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Russia. Ca. 1900s-1930s.

• Two letters from R. Tzvi Hirsch HaKohen Walk, Rabbi of Pinsk. 1902.
• Lengthy letter (4 pages) from R. Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky, during his tenure as Rabbi of Zhaludok (Poland, present-day Belarus). 1913.
• Letter from R. Avraham Yaakov HaKohen of Vilna (son of the Cheshek Shlomo). Tevet 1937.
• Letter from R. Yitzchak Begun, Rabbi of Židikai (Lithuania). Adar I 1932.
• Letter from R. Yitzchak Eizik Friedman, Rabbi of Tauragė. [1932].
• Letter from R. Yechiel Michel Berkman, Rabbi of Orikhiv (Taurida governorate, Russia; present-day Ukraine). 1908.
• Letter from R. Yosef Yoselevitz, Rabbi of Trzcianne. Trzcianne, Elul 1913.
• Two letters from R. Shlomo Natan Kotler (Rabbi of Luokė and Detroit) to R. Shlomo Yaakov Schein, Rabbi of Leckava (Lithuania). Memel (Klaipėda), 1933.
• Letter from R. Menachem Tzvi Taksin (author of many books including Or Torah and Ateret Tzvi). Brisk, Tishrei 1912.
• Letter (2 pages) from R. Yaakov Leibschitz, Rabbi of Konin (Poland), Sivan 1926.
• Letter from the Bureau for Agunot headed by the Devar Avraham of Kovno, signed by R. Eliezer Eliyahu Friedman. Kovno (Kaunas), 1932.
• Letter from R. Avraham HaKohen Levin, Rabbi of Papilė (Lithuania), Av 1937.
• Letter from R. Leib Schneider, Rabbi of Žeimelis (Lithuania), [ca. 1937].
• Two letters from R. Nata Yerachmiel Litvin, Rabbi of Kuršėnai (Lithuania). 1934-[ca. 1937].
• Letter from R. Yitzchak Yaffe, Rabbi of Upyna (Lithuania). Sivan 1934.
• Letter from R. Avraham HaKohen Weisbord, Rabbi of Smolensk. Jerusalem, Cheshvan 1935 (about a month and a half before his passing).
• Seven letters from R. Yochanan Mirsky, Rabbi of Zabłudów (Lithuania, present-day Poland). Zabłudów, 1928-1938.
• Six letters from R. Aharon Milevsky, Rabbi of West Alytus (later Rabbi of Montevideo, Uruguay). Alytus (Lithuania), 1934-1937.
• Three letters from R. Shalom Yitzchak Levitan, Rabbi of Švėkšna (Lithuania). 1937-1939.
• Two letters from R. Shmuel Menachem Liev, Rabbi of the Ashkenazic community in Kremenchuk. Ca. 1933-1934.
• Letter from R. Shraga Feitel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of Izabelin (Lithuania, present-day Izabyelin, Belarus). Montreal (Canada), Tamuz 1930.
• Letter from R. Levi Yitzchak Ovchinski (author of Nachalat Avot), Rabbi of Jelgava (Latvia). Tevet 1934.
• Letter from R. Henich Etkin, Rabbi of Luga (near Leningrad) to his son-in-law R. David Cohen, the Nazir. Luga, Tamuz 1937.
• Letter from R. Yaakov Walch to R. Moshe Gutman (of Baranavichy). Haradzishcha, 1931.
• Letter from R. Shemariah Helfand, to his brother R. Zalman Shmuel Shapiro in the United States (later Rabbi of Denver, Colorado). [Bobr, Mogilev governorate, Russia (present-day Belarus)].
• Letter from R. Aharon Mendel Vidrevitz to R. Zalman Chasdan (a Chabad chassid in Gomel), regarding study of shechitah practice. [Babruysk], 1928.
• And many more letters.

Over 60 letters, over 55 of them are signed. Most on postcards. Varying size and condition.

Assorted collection of letters and recommendations given to R. Naftali Hertz Rogol. Lithuania, Jerusalem and elsewhere, 1930s-1980s.

• Letter of recommendation from R. Avraham Tzvi Grodzinski, director of the Ramailes yeshiva in Vilna. Vilna, Elul 1933.
R. Avraham Tzvi Hirsh Grodzinski (ca. 1857-1937), eldest son of R. David Shlomo Rabbi of Iwye, and elder brother of R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. He served for close to fifty years as dean and director of the Ramailes yeshiva in Vilna.
• Letter of recommendation from R. Reuven Chadash, Rabbi of Halshany. Halshany (Lithuania, present-day Belarus), [ca. 1930s].
• Letter from R. Bentzion Bamberger, mashgiach at the Ponevezh yeshiva. Bnei Brak, 1965.
• Letter from Moshe Yoel Walkin (on the stationery of his father R. Shmuel Walkin), with an enclosed photocopy of a letter of recommendation he had received from R. Moshe Feinstein.
• Letter of recommendation from three rabbis calling to assist R. Naftali Hertz Rogol, who was visiting the sick and helping them lay tefillin. At the top of the leaf, letter from R. Binyamin Yehoshua Silber, to which R. Yosef Shalom Elyashiv added several handwritten lines and his signature, and to which R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach appended a handwritten assent with his signature. [Jerusalem], Tamuz 1984. Additional handwritten inscriptions by R. Naftali Hertz Rogol (the recipient of the recommendation).
• Letter of thanks from R. Yaakov Rakovski, rabbi of the Hadassah hospital, in the name of the hospital administration and patients. Jerusalem, Adar II 1984.
• Letter of recommendation from R. Gavriel Ginsburg, Rabbi of the Tiferet Moshe congregation (Kew Gardens, New York), recommending R. Naftali Hertz for his daily lectures. Tamuz 1979.
• Enclosed: • Certificate from R. Shmuel Brom, Rabbi of Luzern, for A. Grossman, declaring him qualified to supervise kosher meat. Luzern, Elul 1929. German.

9 items, including 8 signed letters. Varying size and condition. Some repaired with tape and with open tears affecting text.

Collection of 18 letters on postcards, handwritten by R. Chaim Kanievsky. Bnei Brak, [1999-2001].
Short, concise responses to various questions on Torah matters and halachic customs, sent to R.Y.B. Goldenthal of Kiryat Sefer. At the end of one of the letters R. Chaim writes: "I put your money in tzedakah, and if you want you can come and take it". In one of the letters he writes to him: "There are many details in your questions that are difficult to answer in writing; when you are in Bnei Brak we will speak, God willing". In another letter he writes: "I didn't really understand some of the questions, visit when you are in Bnei Brak" [this is what he habitually answered when the question was too complicated to answer in brief on a postcard].
On all of the postcards, the name of the sender "Chaim Kanievsky" and the name and address of the recipient are in R. Chaim Kanievsky's handwriting.

18 postcards. 14.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and postmarks.