Auction 59
Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
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Feb 20, 2018
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LOT 288:
Letter of Ordination - Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Head of the Kamenets Yeshiva
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Letter of Ordination - Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Head of the Kamenets Yeshiva
Letter handwritten and signed by R. Baruch Ber Leibowitz, head of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva, with a semicha [Yoreh Yoreh, Yadin Yadin] ordaining his disciple R. Shmuel David Varshovchik (Warszawczyk). Kamenets, 1934.
"The sharp erudite amazingly profound young prodigy… R. Shmuel David son of R. Meir Yaakov Varshovchik… studied at our yeshiva for seven years and grew in sagacious Torah study… has a future of growing to become a leading Torah figure… With a joyous heart… I ordain him with semicha… Yoreh Yoreh Yadin Yadin… because he will become one of the greatest celebrated Torah scholars whose Torah and fear of G-d will illuminate the Jewish People and many will bask in his light".
R. Baruch Dov (Ber) Leibowitz (1864-1940), author of Birkat Shmuel, was a great Torah teacher in his times. An illustrious disciple of R. Chaim of Brisk at the Volozhin Yeshiva, son-in-law of R. Avraham Yitzchak Zimmerman Rabbi of Halusk. After his father-in-law relocated to the Kremenchuk rabbinate, he succeeded him as rabbi of Halusk and established a yeshiva there. After a 13-year tenure, he was invited to serve as head of the Knesset Beit Yitzchak Yeshiva in Slobodka. During WWI, he traversed with his yeshiva to Minsk, Kremenchuk and Vilna, until he finally established the yeshiva in Kamenets. Author of Birkat Shmuel on Talmudic treatises, his Torah teachings are a bedrock of profound yeshiva Talmudic study.
Recipient of the semicha: R. Shmuel David Varshovchik, a student at the Baranovich and Kamenets Yeshivas, and later a head of the Yaakov Yosef Yeshiva in the US. In 1977, he remarried Rebbetzin Chana, widow of R. Noach Shimanovitz, founder and head of the Kfar Chassidim Yeshiva, and served as a head of that yeshiva until his death in 1988.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 29.5 cm. 13 autograph lines. Good condition. Folding marks. Wear and small tears to margins and folding marks.
