Auction 51 Part I - Books Chassidism Manuscripts Rabbinical Letters
Letter by Rabbi Yechezkel Berstein, Author of Divrei Yechezkel - Teacher of Rabbi Shach and Rabbi Hutner - Vabalninkas, 1913
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Autograph letter signed by Rabbi Yechezkel Berstein. Vabalninkas (Lithuania), 1913.
Sent to Rabbi Shmuel Gordon of the Telz Yeshiva, with a request to purchase the book Teshuvot Rabbi Eliezer authored by his father, Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, for the beit midrash in the city.
Rabbi Yechezkel Berstein (1889-perished in the Holocaust in Cheshvan 1941), a foremost student of the Knesset Yisrael Yeshiva in Slobodka and friend of Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky and Rabbi Daniel Movshovitz who studied at the Slobodka Yeshiva at the same time. In 1913, he married and settled in Vabalninkas, the birthplace of his great disciple Elazar Menachem Shach [author of Avi Ezri], who considered himself a "talmid muvhak" of Rabbi Yechezkel and was very close to him. The latter moved to study at the Slobodka Kollel and during World War I, exiled with the yeshiva to Kremenchuk. On their return to Slobodka, the young man Yitzchak Hutner of Warsaw [author of Pachad Yitzchak] became his close disciple.
In 1923, the Saba of Slobodka together with his son Rabbi Moshe Finkel established the Or Yisrael Yeshiva in Slobodka [which was an "intermediate yeshiva" absorbing students who graduated from Yeshivot Ketanot and after studying three years in an "intermediate yeshiva" they progressed to a yeshiva gedolah]. Rabbi Yechezkel was appointed teacher but later became the sole head of the yeshiva. His scholarly work Divrei Yechezkel printed in Kėdainiai (Keidan) in 1935 reputed him throughout the Torah world. This book was printed in many editions and became one of the basic books of yeshiva in-depth Torah study.
Postcard, 14 cm. Good condition.
Sent to Rabbi Shmuel Gordon of the Telz Yeshiva, with a request to purchase the book Teshuvot Rabbi Eliezer authored by his father, Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, for the beit midrash in the city.
Rabbi Yechezkel Berstein (1889-perished in the Holocaust in Cheshvan 1941), a foremost student of the Knesset Yisrael Yeshiva in Slobodka and friend of Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky and Rabbi Daniel Movshovitz who studied at the Slobodka Yeshiva at the same time. In 1913, he married and settled in Vabalninkas, the birthplace of his great disciple Elazar Menachem Shach [author of Avi Ezri], who considered himself a "talmid muvhak" of Rabbi Yechezkel and was very close to him. The latter moved to study at the Slobodka Kollel and during World War I, exiled with the yeshiva to Kremenchuk. On their return to Slobodka, the young man Yitzchak Hutner of Warsaw [author of Pachad Yitzchak] became his close disciple.
In 1923, the Saba of Slobodka together with his son Rabbi Moshe Finkel established the Or Yisrael Yeshiva in Slobodka [which was an "intermediate yeshiva" absorbing students who graduated from Yeshivot Ketanot and after studying three years in an "intermediate yeshiva" they progressed to a yeshiva gedolah]. Rabbi Yechezkel was appointed teacher but later became the sole head of the yeshiva. His scholarly work Divrei Yechezkel printed in Kėdainiai (Keidan) in 1935 reputed him throughout the Torah world. This book was printed in many editions and became one of the basic books of yeshiva in-depth Torah study.
Postcard, 14 cm. Good condition.
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