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.