Auction 67 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Letter from Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman
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Letter signed by R. Elchanan Bunem Wasserman dean of the Baranovich yeshiva, with the stamp of the yeshiva. [Baranovich, 1930s].
This leaf contains the second half of a typewritten letter (leaf 2 only), with the handwritten signature of R. Elchanan. The letter consists of an appeal on behalf of the yeshiva, addressed to the rabbi of a community. R. Elchanan requests that he generate support for the yeshiva "amongst the members of his community, and especially amongst the members of the prominent Ezrat Torah organization in his town, so that they should come to the aid of our holy yeshiva in its time of great need…". The letter concludes with blessings for those who support Torah: "It is a tree of life… and those who support it are fortunate", closing off with blessings: "His friend, who reveres and respects him, who blesses him with life, peace, and only good forever…".
R. Elchanan Wasserman (1875-1941) was a disciple of R. Shimon Shkop in the Telshe yeshiva and prominent disciple of the Chafetz Chaim. He served as lecturer and dean in the Brisk (Brest) yeshiva and in other places. During WWI, at the behest of the Chafetz Chaim, he established a yeshiva in Smilavichy (Minsk province, today Belarus), and after the war, R. Elchanan founded the Ohel Torah yeshiva in Baranovich. A renowned Torah scholar and a foremost yeshiva dean in Lithuania, he represented the Chafetz Chaim and R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah of Agudat Yisrael. He composed many essays on Jewish ideology which were later published in his book Ikveta DeMeshicha, in which he expressed the Torah stance of his teacher the Chafetz Chaim on Zionist nationalism and the spiritual state of the Jewish people. During the Holocaust, he was deported to the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, and was later murdered in the Seventh Fort, while studying the laws of Kiddush HaShem. His teachings and lectures were published in the following books: Kovetz Shiurim, Kovetz He'arot, Kovetz Inyanim, Kovetz Igrot HaGaon R. Elchanan Wasserman and others. His approach in learning and his books serve until this day as the basis of intensive yeshiva study in the Torah world.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 28 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear and minor damage to folds.
This leaf contains the second half of a typewritten letter (leaf 2 only), with the handwritten signature of R. Elchanan. The letter consists of an appeal on behalf of the yeshiva, addressed to the rabbi of a community. R. Elchanan requests that he generate support for the yeshiva "amongst the members of his community, and especially amongst the members of the prominent Ezrat Torah organization in his town, so that they should come to the aid of our holy yeshiva in its time of great need…". The letter concludes with blessings for those who support Torah: "It is a tree of life… and those who support it are fortunate", closing off with blessings: "His friend, who reveres and respects him, who blesses him with life, peace, and only good forever…".
R. Elchanan Wasserman (1875-1941) was a disciple of R. Shimon Shkop in the Telshe yeshiva and prominent disciple of the Chafetz Chaim. He served as lecturer and dean in the Brisk (Brest) yeshiva and in other places. During WWI, at the behest of the Chafetz Chaim, he established a yeshiva in Smilavichy (Minsk province, today Belarus), and after the war, R. Elchanan founded the Ohel Torah yeshiva in Baranovich. A renowned Torah scholar and a foremost yeshiva dean in Lithuania, he represented the Chafetz Chaim and R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah of Agudat Yisrael. He composed many essays on Jewish ideology which were later published in his book Ikveta DeMeshicha, in which he expressed the Torah stance of his teacher the Chafetz Chaim on Zionist nationalism and the spiritual state of the Jewish people. During the Holocaust, he was deported to the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, and was later murdered in the Seventh Fort, while studying the laws of Kiddush HaShem. His teachings and lectures were published in the following books: Kovetz Shiurim, Kovetz He'arot, Kovetz Inyanim, Kovetz Igrot HaGaon R. Elchanan Wasserman and others. His approach in learning and his books serve until this day as the basis of intensive yeshiva study in the Torah world.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 28 cm. Good-fair condition. Wear and minor damage to folds.
Letters - Lithuanian, Polish and Eretz Israeli Rabbis
Letters - Lithuanian, Polish and Eretz Israeli Rabbis