A large Kuntres Responsa discussing the inheritance laws of Rabbinical posts. By the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Shlomo Yoel Sherman Ab”d Rivne, 1902.

Large Kuntres, 17 Sides. Fully in his Holy hand (in several types of scripts) & signature. 20.6 Cm.

The Gaon Rabbi Yitzhak Shlomo Yoel Sherman was born in 1844 to his father Rabbi Shmuel, a descendant of Rabbi Shlomo Harif of the famous Rabbis in the State of Belarus. Rabbi Sherman studied in his youth at Yeshiva of Shklov and then at the Platzk Yeshiva, and was ordained by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lublin. When he married, he continued to study Seder Kodoshim at the Radin Yeshiva together with the Tzaddik Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen in famous yeshivas including in Grodno, Lida and more. After that he was with the Admo”r Rabbi Israel Noach of Niezin and was ordained by several of his greatest contemporaries.

From 1867 he served as Rabbi of Several communities,   Barsana and after a while he was called to take the seat of the rabbinate in the town of Cleyrika and in 1885 he became Rabbi in Rovno. Rabbi Sherman was one of the founders of the yeshiva and took part in the public affairs and the management of the various institutions and was a “loyal shepherd” of his community. He died Ca. 1910.

Please see Hebrew catalog for more biographical details.

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Whole Kuntres Responsa by the Chavrusah of Maran the Chafetz Chaim: The Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Shlomo Yoel Sherman of Rovno. 1902.

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