Letter handwritten and signed by R. Moshe Sokolovsky, dean of the "Torat Chessed yeshiva – Brisk D'Lita". Cheshvan 1926.
Addressed to R. Yosef Shub of Vilna, director of the Vaad HaYeshivot, regarding the Vaad HaYeshivot fundraising, and funds allocated to the Torat Chessed yeshiva in Brisk.
R. Moshe Sokolovsky (1868-1931), a leading Torah educator in Lithuania. He was a close disciple of R. Chaim Brisk. In 1896-1931, he served as dean of the Torat Chessed yeshiva in Brisk (Brest; together with R. Simcha Zelig Rieger). He was renowned for his exceptional diligence and absorption in his learning: "When he would go to deliver his class in the yeshiva, all his senses and thoughts were focused on the topic to be discussed, to the point that he often unknowingly bumped into trees, so focused he was on his Torah studies… one of the Torah leaders of our times attested that he was able to contemplate one topic for 16 hours" (Gedolei HaDorot, p. 1021). His book Imrei Moshe was received in the yeshiva world with great reverence, and serves until this day as a basic book for scholarly, in-depth study. His renowned disciples include: family members of R. Chaim and R. Yitzchak Ze'ev Soloveitchik Rabbis of Brisk (who valued him for his profound and logical reasoning), R. Moshe Soloveitchik of Switzerland, his colleague R. Aharon Yehuda Leib Steinman author of Ayelet HaShachar, R. Aryeh Pomeranchik author of Torat Zera'im and R. Ze'ev Eidelman.
[1] leaf, official stationery (approx. 25 autograph lines). 28 cm. Good condition. Creases and wear. Filing holes, slightly affecting text.