Sefer ‘Kol Yaakov’ includes commentaries on the five Megillot, by Rabbi Jacob Kranz zt"l the great Maggid (preacher) of Dubno. Photo-printing of the Warsaw edition, 1876. With the stamp of Rabbi "מאיר שפירא האב"ד ור"מ פיעטרקוב" and the stamp of Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin.
187 pages, 21 cm. Sefer that remained from sefarim of the Polish Jewry that was saved from annihilation during the Holocaust.
The venerated famous gaon Rabbi Meir Shapiro Rav of Lublin (1887-1934). Founder of the illustrious Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin, president of Agudat Yisrael of Poland and originator of the idea of learning ‘Daf Hayomi’ of Talmud Bavli. Born in Shotz (Suceava, Romania) to his father Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon, direct descendant of the holy Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz. Was very revered Chassid of the holy Rabbi Yisrael of Chortkov. Ordained Rabbinical ordination (Semicha for Hora’ah) from his grandfather the ‘Minchat Shai’, the Machzeh Avraham of Brody, Rabbi Meir Arik, and the Maharsham of Berezhany. After serving his glorious Rabbanut in Gliniany, Sanok, Piotrków Trybunalski. From 1922, Rabbi Shapiro served as a parliamentarian to the Polish Sejm. He was actively involved in the World Agudath Israel movement, member of Moetzet Gedolai HaTorah, and one of the leading heads. was appointed to serve as Rav for the important community of Lublin, there he founded the glorious spiritual lighthouse the ‘Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin’. In the first Knessia HaGedolah of Agudat Yisrael, when he was still Rav in Pietrekow, before all the great scholars of the generation and thousands that had gathered, he offered his great idea of learning the Daf HaYomi. The idea that dominated the whole Jewish world throughout, expanding Torah learning as never before. The Gaon and his rebbetzen did not merit any children, but his legacy of Daf HaYomi and the Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin, remain forever and remembered by all.
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