Letter from R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz, dean of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak yeshiva in Kamenets. [Kamenets], 15th Tevet, 1937. Yiddish.

Sent to donors of the yeshiva, the Feigin family in Philadelphia, USA. R. Baruch Ber showers them with blessings and thanks for their generous support for the yeshiva. He also adds that on 3rd Tevet, the yeshiva commemorated the yahrzeit of Hinde Chanah daughter of R. Shlomo Zalman, in accordance with the yeshiva's statutes.
Most of the letter is typewritten, and it concludes with six lines of warm, heartfelt blessings handwritten and signed by the yeshiva dean R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz: "I bless you and your generous and righteous wife with long days and good years, with all blessings and successes, lengthy days, wealth and happiness, and the fulfillment of the Torah's blessing, 'Blessed is one who supports', and may we merit to soon see the redemption and hear the coming of the Messiah. Blessing 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. 29.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks.

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