‘Yoreh Yoreh’ certificate, handwritten & signed by the Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendel Yosef Zaks Rosh Yeshiva Chafetz Chaim in Radin, given to the Young R. Baruch HaCohen Greenberg towards his immigration to Israel.
On official stationary of the Yeshiva. Radun, 1935.
The Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendel Yosef Zaks (1893-1974) studied in Slabodka and Radin and with Rabbi Itzla Ponovizer, the Gaon Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira and Rabbi Reuven Dov Dessler in Kelm, where he also taught his son Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler.
In 1922 Maran the Chafetz Chaim chose him as his Son-In-Law and after the Shidduch, the Chafetz Chaim wrote in one of his letters "I have merited a chassan a Talmid Chocom". In 1926 he was appointed the head of the Kolel Kodoshim in Radin and afterwards as Rosh Yeshiva. In 1941 he escaped to the United States and was one of the leaders of the Vaad Hatzalah Committee. In 1944 he founded the Yeshiva Chafetz Chaim in New York and also renewed the "Kollel Kodoshim". In his old age he immigrated to Israel.
Rabbi Baruch HaCohen Greenberg was born in Vizan (Poland) in 1908. He studied at the Talmud Torah of Suwalk, in a yeshiva in Grodno. In the Nowhardok yeshiva in Bialystok, & for 8 years in the yeshiva of the Chafetz Chaim in Radin.
In 1938 he immigrated to Israel and studied for two years at the Hebron-Slavodka yeshiva in Jerusalem.
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