Letter of Recommendation on behalf of Yeshivat Torat Chaim HaKlalit in Jerusalem.
Letter printed by Lithograph. The recipients name, the name of the Shadar is in his Holy hand, with his signature in his Holy hand & personal stamp.
1905.
The most famous Gaon Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik (1853-1918), rabbi of Brisk, was a foremost Torah scholar in Lithuania and one of the leaders of his generation. He is considered the initiator of the learning method in Lithuanian yeshivot. Son of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Beit HaLevi, and son-in-law of Rabbi Refael Shapiro, dean of the Volozhin yeshiva and son-in-law of the Netziv.
After his marriage, he began serving as the third dean of the Volozhin yeshiva (the disciples of R. Chaim from that period include: Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, Rabbi Shimon Yehuda Shkop and Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski). With R. Refael’s move in 1881 to Babruysk, R. Chaim was appointed second yeshiva dean in his place. After the passing of his father the Beit HaLevi in 1894, he succeeded him as rabbi of Brisk, and continued teaching Torah to a small group of elite students who gathered to absorb his teachings.
These disciples later disseminated his study method in all Lithuanian yeshivot, orally and in writing. Many of his novellae circulated orally within Lithuanian yeshivot, transmitted and copied by many writers (some were later printed in the stencil edition of Chiddushei HaGrach, published in Eretz Israel ca. the 1950s).
Good condition, folding marks.
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