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A form for purchasing letters in a Sefer Torah, issued by the committee for writing...

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A form for purchasing letters in a Sefer Torah, issued by the committee for writing a Sefer Torah in memory of the Chofetz Chaim, with a list of the residents of Kleck who purchased letter, including the Gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler. Kleck, 1930s.

A table with names of residents of Kleck, including Rabbi Aharon Kotler, and details of the letters they had purchased of a Sefer Torah that was written by the initiative of "Va’ad HaYeshivas" in Vilna, in memory of the Tzaddik Gaon Maran Yisroel Meir Hacohen.

[1] leaf, 36X22 cm. The form was printed at the Krins Press in Vilna.

The president of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah and leader of the generation the great Gaon Rabbi Aharon Kotler (1892-1962) one of the greatest Gedolei Yiaroel in the recent generation. From a young age was renowned as an Iluy and diligent student. In his youth, he studied Torah with the Gaon Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana Shapiro. Rabbi Reuven Grozovsky (Chatana Dvei Nessi’ah of the Gaon Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz) who knew him, urged him to study at the Knesses Yosroel Yeshiva in Slabodka. There Rabbi Aharon became close to his rabbis the Rashei Yeshivas who greatly respected him. At the age of 22 Rabbi Aharon Married the daughter of the Gaon Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. Immediately after the wedding, he started teaching in his yeshiva in Slutzk and several years later, became its Rosh Yeshiva. In 1921, the yeshiva was forced to move to Poland to due persecutions by the communist government and settled in Kleck – where this form was filled-in. Alongside the name "Hagra Kotler, Ram" it is written that the letters of the name "Aharon" were purchased by the students of the yeshiva.

Fold mark, filing perforations, blemishes to the perimeter of the leaf. Fair-good condition.

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