Velvet Tefilin bag of the famous Gaon Meir Yehudah Shapira, rabbi of Piotrkov & Lublin.
Front embroidered with his name ‘Meir Yehudah Shapira’ & reverse with the date 1928.
Inside was Sefer Zicru Torat Moshe, Lublin, 1894. With unrecorded Hebrew-Polish stamp of Rabbi Meir Shapiro as rabbi of Piotrkov. Apparently this was made especially before hos famous trip to the USA in 1926-1927.
These were shown to Rabbi David Abraham Mandelbaum & he authenticated them.
The Famous Gaon Rabbi Meir Yehudah Shapira, one of the greatest and most active rabbinical figures of his time, was born in Shotz (Suceava), Romania. A descendant of the famous Rebbi Pinchas Shapira of Koritz, and a follower of the Rebbe of Chortkov, he was known as an infant prodigy and referred to as ‘The Shotzer illuy’, receiving rabbinical ordination at the age of 15.
He served as Rabbi of Glina, Sanok, Piotrkov and Lublin, where after a 7-year-long international fundraising campaign (in the course of which he traveled across Western Europe and the US) he established the internationally famous Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin as a centre for advanced Talmudic studies. He served as President of Agudas Yisroel in Poland, Honorary Secretary of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, as well as Agudas Yisroel deputy in the Polish Parliament from 1923 to 1928. At the Knessia Gedola of Agudas Yisroel in Vienna 1924 he launched the innovative Daf Hayomi universal daily Talmud study program that has been widely adopted in the orthodox Jewish world.
Stamps of Rebbe Elazxar Shapiro of Sanok. He was born in Sanok in 1877 & was raised by the Donov Rebbes. Ca. 1920 he immigrated to the USA. He was a confidant of the Gaon Rabbi Meir Shapiro. Passed away in 1962.
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