A unique and sacred item, an excerpt from "Chazon Yechezkel" – the monumental composition of the tzaddik & genius Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky Rabbi of London and head of the Council of Torah Elders.
On this page he wrote a section from his composition Chazon Yechezkel, and after that he crossed out the words as a sign of erasure, and indeed these Chidushim were not printed in his Sefer Chazon Yechezkel,
Rabbi Yechezkel had the privilege of being a master of the Tosefta, and his Sefer ‘Chazon Yechezkel’ served as a foundational text in the study of the Tosefta. It is quoted in hundreds of Seforim in our generation.
For sixty years he toiled on its explanation, during times of rest and tranquility as well as during times of distress and hardship, as he writes in the introduction to ‘Chazon Yechezkel’ on the topic of seeds: ‘I was awakened to pave a path in the vast sea of the Talmud of the Tosefta, and I placed all my springs into it… and I did not cease to toil and study it even in days when there was no desire, while groaning under the burden of troubles… in the turbulent years of the World War… its laws were my statutes in my dwelling, meaning even when fear of the enemy reigned in my place of residence… the deep study of the Tosefta was like a song to me…’"
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The Ga’on Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky [1886-1976] studied in his youth at the Novardok Yeshiva where he was close to the "Alter of Novardok" and at his request he even studied with his sons. At the age of 17 he was ordained by the city’s rabbi, Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, author of Aruch Ha-Shulchan. He then studied at the Telz Yeshiva. He also studied at the Ramiles Yeshiva and in the "Kibbutz" of Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski in Vilna, and under Rabbi Chaim of Brisk.
He served as Rabbi of Slutsk, Smalian and Smolbichi. In 1923, in Slutsk he replaced Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, who had to flee because of persecution by the Communist regime. In 1925 published the first part of his commentary on the Tosefta. At the beginning of the winter of 1932 he settled in London and began serving as rabbi of the Machzikei Hadat congregation, and in 1933 he was appointed Dayan at the Rabbinical Court in London and two years later as head of the city’s rabbinical court. During these years he continued with his great enterprise – the interpretation of the Tosefta – "Chazon Yehezkel".
In 1951, he immigrated to Israel with his family and settled in the Beit Vagan neighborhood in Jerusalem, In it he continued his work and spreading his teachings. author of Chazon Yechezkel on the Tosefta & many other works.
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