Auction 97 Part 2 Rare and Important Items

Letter of Blessings and Thanks from Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz – Kamenets, Tishrei 1932 – "May God Grant You Long Life Full of Satisfaction, And Bless Your Business with All Blessings and Success…"

Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
Sold for: $1,875
Including buyer's premium

Letter from R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz, dean of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Kamenets. [Kamenets], 25 Tishrei, 1932.
Letter in Yiddish addressed to the Feigin family of Philadelphia, United States. R. Baruch Ber showers them with blessings, thanking them for their generous support of the yeshiva, and mentions that on the first day of Sukkot, the yeshiva commemorated the yahrzeit of Devorah daughter of R. Moshe, as per the yeshiva regulations.
The letter, which is typewritten for the most part, concludes with six lines of warm, heartfelt blessings, handwritten and signed by the yeshiva dean, R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz: "…I wish to bless you along with your wife, the righteous woman; may she live for many good, long years. May God grant you long life full of satisfaction and bless your business with all blessings and success.… and may you merit to soon see the salvation of Israel and hear the footsteps of Mashiach. Blessing and honoring him, Baruch Dov Leibovitz, dean of the 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 Torah study.


[2] leaves, official stationery. 29 cm. Good condition. Stains and folds.

Rabbinic Letters
Rabbinic Letters