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LOT 186:
Group of 3 letters by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky of Vilna. 1920's.
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Sold for: $1,000
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Group of 3 letters by the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky of Vilna. 1920's.
Group of three letters sent to his community, Vilna
In one letter he writes "It would be proper to send the sum of fifty gold coins for the Mashgiach in Brisk ... for rent, send it to the Rav Shlit''a."
On official letterhead.
Two letters 19.5cm.
One letter 12cm.
The famous Gaon Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky (1863-1940), pre-eminent Torah leader of his generation. Was born into a distinguished rabbinical family and was renowned from a young age for his brilliant mind coupled with great diligence. He initially learned in Eisheshok and later in Volozhin under R. Chaim Soloveitchik. He married the daughter of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Grodzensky, a leading Rov in Vilna (son-in-law of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter), whom he later succeeded.
He dedicated his life to the needs of the Jewish People and was recognized as the leading Posek and spiritual leader of his generation, consulted on virtually every Jewish communal issue. He played an instrumental role in preserving Lithuanian Yeshivos during the beginning of the Communist era, and led the yeshivas of Poland and Russia after the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, arranging for these Yeshivos to relocate to Lithuanian villages.
