Sefer Kavod Yisrael. Eulogy help in Odessa by Rabbi David Shlomo Slastosh on the Famous Gaon Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin of Salant.
Only Edition. Warsaw, 1883.
Very Rare, Has never appeared at public auction.
Approbations by the Gaonim Rabbi Yitzchok Elchnon of Kovno & Rabbi Ezriel Hildesheimer of Berlin.
20 sides. Good condition, last 2 pages detached & with light marginal tears, unbound.
Rabbi Yisrael Lipkin of Salant (1810-1883) – founder of the Musar movement, son of Rabbi Ze’ev Wolf Ben Aryeh (Lipkin). A leading Torah scholar of his times and disciple of the disciples of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. In his youth, he studied together with his colleague Rabbi Shmuel Salant in the town of Salant, where he drew close to his teacher Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, who instructed him in on the methods of acquiring ethics and fear of G-d. He initially disseminated Torah in Vilna and its yeshivot, and was renowned for his tremendous genius. He later moved to Kovno, where he established a Beit HaMusar, transmitting his teachings and distinctive approach to worship of God to an elite group of disciples. The Musar movement he initiated spread and molded the entire yeshiva world until this day. His prominent disciples include Rabbi Simcha Zissel of Kelm (who established his yeshiva under the guidance of his teacher), Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer and Rabbi Naftali Amsterdam. The Alter of Slabodka and the Alter of Novardok were also his close disciples.
Rabbi Yisrael established the Perushim Kollel in Kovno, which was led by his disciples Rabbi Avraham Shenker and Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Levitan. He stood at the helm of many enterprises for strengthening study of Torah and Musar in various countries. In the 1860s, he decided to concentrate his efforts on countries influenced by Haskalah, to boost Torah observance and study of Torah and Musar. He lived for several years in Königsberg (present day: Kaliningrad) and Memel (present day: Klaipėda), Eastern Prussia, and travelled around delivering lectures in German, drawing people closer to Torah observance. In order to raise the prestige of Torah, he established a forum for publishing Torah novellae and Musar teachings, in form of the Tevunah anthology, published in 1861. He later moved to France and lived in Paris for a few years, maintaining contact with his family members and prominent disciples in Lithuania and Russia through letters. Near the end of his life, he returned to Prussia, and he is buried in Königsberg.
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