Auction 74 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Letter from Rabbi Pesach Pruskin, Dean of the Kobryn Yeshiva – 1936 – "May They Be Blessed with True Success"
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Letter from the management of the Kobryn yeshiva, addressed to the Vaad HaYeshivot in Vilna. The leaf begins with a letter handwritten and signed by R. Shlomo Mates, a lecturer at the yeshiva. R. Pesach Pruskin, his father-in-law and dean of the yeshiva, added five lines in his handwriting, with his signature. Kobryn, Iyar 1936.
Addressed to R. Aharon HaKohen Burack, a member of the management of Vaad HaYeshivot. R. Shlomo Mates reports on the fundraising in Kobryn on behalf of Vaad HaYeshivot, and of the yeshiva's dire financial straits, due to its growth "the yeshiva enrollment has increased lately". He requests that he transfer the funds allocated to the Kobryn yeshiva.
R. Pesach Pruskin adds to the words of his son-in-law, R. Shlomo, and asks for assistance in supporting the Kobryn yeshiva: "I appeal to you to please send quickly the funds designated for our yeshiva, since we are still owed from last summer, and the situation is very difficult…". R. Pruskin concludes with blessings: "…may they be blessed with true success, to merit to see the prestige of our Torah raised… Pesach Pruskin".
R. Pesach Pruskin (1879-1939), a leading yeshiva dean in Lithuania. In his youth, he was one of the 14 students sent by the Alter of Slabodka to Slutsk to be the nucleus of R. Isser Zalman Meltzer's yeshiva. After his wedding, he was appointed lecturer in this yeshiva. In 1908, he moved to Shklow where he established his own yeshiva. One of his close disciples who moved with him from Slutsk to Shklow was R. Moshe Feinstein, author of Igrot Moshe. In 1924, he was appointed rabbi of Kobryn, where he founded his yeshiva, one of the most prominent in Lithuania.
His son-in-law, writer of the present letter, R. Shlomo Mates (perished in the Holocaust), a dean of the Kobryn yeshiva, lecturer and spiritual director, who was the driving force behind the Torah dissemination in the yeshiva. Most of the graduates of the Kobryn yeshiva in its final years regarded him as their prime teacher.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and folding marks. Filing holes, affecting one word of the letter.
Addressed to R. Aharon HaKohen Burack, a member of the management of Vaad HaYeshivot. R. Shlomo Mates reports on the fundraising in Kobryn on behalf of Vaad HaYeshivot, and of the yeshiva's dire financial straits, due to its growth "the yeshiva enrollment has increased lately". He requests that he transfer the funds allocated to the Kobryn yeshiva.
R. Pesach Pruskin adds to the words of his son-in-law, R. Shlomo, and asks for assistance in supporting the Kobryn yeshiva: "I appeal to you to please send quickly the funds designated for our yeshiva, since we are still owed from last summer, and the situation is very difficult…". R. Pruskin concludes with blessings: "…may they be blessed with true success, to merit to see the prestige of our Torah raised… Pesach Pruskin".
R. Pesach Pruskin (1879-1939), a leading yeshiva dean in Lithuania. In his youth, he was one of the 14 students sent by the Alter of Slabodka to Slutsk to be the nucleus of R. Isser Zalman Meltzer's yeshiva. After his wedding, he was appointed lecturer in this yeshiva. In 1908, he moved to Shklow where he established his own yeshiva. One of his close disciples who moved with him from Slutsk to Shklow was R. Moshe Feinstein, author of Igrot Moshe. In 1924, he was appointed rabbi of Kobryn, where he founded his yeshiva, one of the most prominent in Lithuania.
His son-in-law, writer of the present letter, R. Shlomo Mates (perished in the Holocaust), a dean of the Kobryn yeshiva, lecturer and spiritual director, who was the driving force behind the Torah dissemination in the yeshiva. Most of the graduates of the Kobryn yeshiva in its final years regarded him as their prime teacher.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and folding marks. Filing holes, affecting one word of the letter.
Rabbinical Letters
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